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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Wait,you guys don't get that? Shit I'm.here in Northern Ireland and that would be less than standard. That's what we give teenagers,hell,most teens would not take that deal. When did America start treating the worker so bad? Like 1865?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

32h work week?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Legally, I get 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked. And this is a pro-worker state, most states don't mandate any sick leave at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

1 hour of sick a week ? That doesn't make sense, you can't plan being sick. How does that work? What if your sick fir one hour and ten minutes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The way paid time off works in WA is that it goes into a fund that you get paid out of for missing work. So, a minimum of one hour of wages gets added to the pot for every full week of work.

I go to therapy weekly, so I can choose to either take my PTO to cover the hour I miss each week, or I can choose to save it for when I actually get sick. Hypothetically, I could also save it for a vacation, but I'm not bougie enough to take a vacation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Everyone deserves a holiday

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

we never stopped. One week vacation per year is considered a perk at most jobs that offer it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

One week? Do you get like 46 days of bank holiday?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I don't know how many banking holidays there are but they typically are only observed by people working at banks... Personally speaking, I've never had a job that gave any holidays off, but I also never had a job that gave vacation time, even though some of them said they did on paper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

No, it's usually somewhere between 5 and 12 and none of them are mandatory.

Edit: if I'm translating that right, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"But worker rights that is socialism! Socialism is evil because the soviets say they are that!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Yea everyone knows how that great socialist state of ireland

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You have 32h/week as a standard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Well full time is 36plus i think

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah its slowly becoming the standard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's awesome! I was actually looking into moving to Ireland (not the TERF-island part tho). Sadly their trans healthcare is also sub par.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Your sexuality is not a personality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Cool. Didn't talk about my sexuality. Weird that you would bring that up, are you well?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

America was built on treating the worker badly. Most of the first people that came here were either slaves or indentured servants. Chinese people got exploited to build the railroads, and then banned from being citizens in the country. Now we have prison slavery and wage servitude. There are a million and one examples, but exploiting the worker is as American as apple pie.

The only thing that has ever really improved in American labor is actual safety standards for work environments, equipment, etc. We do a great job of prioritizing that. But actual workers are viewed as expendable, and many of the largest employers are just meat grinders even if they offer half-decent benefits. Walmart is a good example of that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's such a bummer when I hear about the burial lack of workers rights over there. How is there not mass migration to Europe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Because, for many people, it's not all that easy to get the requisite visas to go to Europe legally. As it stands now, I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in my household of 3 who has a few options to get skilled work visas based on my work experience. In another few years, when we've all finished our degrees, we're looking at making the leap.

For other people, they might already have put down roots that hold them back before considering what a raw deal they're getting. Even if someone can qualify to emigrate, significant others, kids or property can make it more difficult for them to decide to go for it.

And, of course, you have plenty of folks who drink too deeply of the Kool-Aid, and believe Fox News when they say Europe is overrun by communist governments that implement Sharia law in their gulags, and force you to be gay to hit the national quotas.