• Zerlyna@lemmy.world
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    I’m in the US and I get 3 paid sick days a year. Anything more and I don’t get paid PLUS I get a point. After 8 points I lose my job. We come to work sick unless we are in the hospital.

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      If Americans knew what workers rights were they’d be very angry to realise they have none.

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        No, we have worker’s rights – not enough, but you do have rights. Federal and state labor law covers a surprisingly broad number of topics.

        Shitty employers want you to think you don’t have rights, because they want to continue to illegally exploit you.

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        Most Americans still have their hears shoved so far up their asses that they think all of Europe is a freedomless third world region where the governments silence all criticism and doctors still use leeches or something. Just completely delusional and in denial.

        Of course most Americans haven’t even left their own state, never mind gone to Europe to experience it themselves.

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          Most Americans still have their hears shoved so far up their asses that they think all of Europe is a freedomless third world region where the governments silence all criticism and doctors still use leeches or something. Just completely delusional and in denial.

          do you actually believe this or are you just trolling

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      That is fucking insane. The burden for everyone who gets sincerely sick and is horrible fucked. Its just sad.

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      My last job had no sick days. I would get no pay for the day and a point, and at 6 points you’re gone.

      The job I have now ALSO has no sick days, but at least the attendance policy is so lax I can literally skip 2/3 shifts and stay employed. Still no pay, but it’s a bit less shitty than my last job.

      The bar is so fucking low I don’t think ground penetrating radar could find it.