Americans React to Workers Rights: UK vs. USA 

Here in the UK our workers joined Unions and fought and fought HARD for decades to get our Rights

In the UK, the reason you get sent home if you come in sick, is because you are going to make all the other staff sick. It's just common sense.

My sister and I are British. I live in England she is in the US after marrying an American. The story of maternity/paternity rights under the law (with 3 children each) could not be more different. The US is hard on its people, and most of them don't even know it.

Seeing them laughing through the pain is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking💀

America isn't a country. it's a business.

Videos like this do help raise awareness that US employees are being screwed compared to those in most countries.

There is a lot wrong with the UK but listening to you guys I have some gratitude!

Shared maternity is a thing here in the uk. The father can have more leave, but it's deducted from the mothers leave. So instead of Mam having 1 year and Dad having 2 weeks, they can opt for shared maternity and both have 6 months. Or if Mam earns more, the Dad can take most of the leave and be a stay at home Dad, while Mam returns to work. It's more flexible than this video suggests

Having someone coming to work, who has the flu, and who starts spreading it around to the other workers, just seems stupid.. even from the employers point of view.

This is insane. How people call America the land of the free always blows my mind. I know I'm lucky but I get 40 days paid holiday a year

In Poland, holiday entitlement is 26 days, not counting 13 public holidays, i.e. 26+13. So in the annual statement it is approximately 250 days of work and 113 days off. 40 hours of work per week. You can be sick for up to six months. The employer pays for 1 month, then the state pays 80% of the salary. After half a year there is a temporary pension and no one can fire you. Additionally, there are 60 days of care for a sick child per year. If he has the flu, the doctor sends a notice to work and you get paid for it. In Poland, most pregnant women do not work and receive 100% paid sick leave for 9 months. Theoretically, poor health is the reason why in practice a woman should rest and take care of herself. They can't fire her at work because the law protects her very much. After giving birth there is 52 weeks of maternity leave paid at 81.5%. After a year, you can take 36 months of unpaid leave with a return guarantee. And there are no costs of childbirth or hospitalization. If something is wrong with your health, the entire hospital stay and the specialist are free of charge. After a healthy delivery, you are always in the hospital for 3 days so that the mother and baby can rest, be examined and learn how to care for the baby. We provide free treatment to all children up to their 18th birthday (petiatrist, cardiologist, surgeon in every field...)

In the land of the free you're free to treat your workers any way you see fit.

As a retired engineer in the UK, I found that people would still come in to work if ill, even though they would get full pay. Just because they didn’t want to let their colleagues down.

It's somewhat ludicrous that the USA refers to Christmas as "The Holidays" when for most US citizens it is anything but a holiday.

In my home country you have unlimited sick leave (paid, like in most European countries) as long as you provide a doctors note (which is also free). If you're sick in your holiday time, you get those holiday days back, as being sick doesn't count as a "holiday". Hearing how my us friends had it before coming to Europe makes me truly appreciate what I took for granted all my life 🙏🏻

It’s shocking that there’s no statutory holiday..I work in Spain and I get 5 weeks plus 15 bank holidays. Companies in the US need to start looking after their staff!

When my boyfriend died unexpectedly my manager wouldn't let me come back to work until I was ready, 6 months paid mourning helped me to sort myself and my finances out. I'm just an admin worker, I work a std 37hr week mostly from home after covid-19. I get 28 days paid leave, plus our national bank holidays (8 days). I get paid sick leave, max 6 months full paid then another 6mths at half pay. I enjoy my job and after 34 yrs I still think I'm contributing to the company. I think I have a good work/life balance. Also I have been in a workers union all my working life.

The mum is literally recovering from giving birth. The main point of paternity leave is to be there for the mum and bond with the baby.

Few things to clarify: 1. What he's talking about is the amounts/days that are the legal minimums that are provided automatically - minimum Annual Leave in UK is 28 days including Bank Holidays (i.e. Christmas etc), Statutory Sick Pay is currently £109 p/week (for up to 28 weeks, and then Government will support you further with sick benefits), Maternity Leave is 52 weeks with first 39 weeks paid (6 weeks on 90% and then 33 weeks on £172 p/week), Paternity Leave is only 2 weeks but there is something called Shared Parental Leave when the mother and father can split the Maternity Leave between themselves. Other types of leave will be usually unpaid but for instance in bereavement, your doctor can give you a sick note and you can be signed off as sick for bereavement 2. Many companies give their employees more in the contract than the legal minumum. For instance I have 36 days Annual Leave including BH, I have 3 months sick leave on full pay and another 3 on half pay, we give 6 weeks Maternity on full pay, 20 weeks on half pay and 13 on Statutory minimum and the rest unpaid, we have discretionary unlimited number of days Compassionate leave (can be used in bereavement), we also have Dependancy leave 5 days on full pay 3. UK is actually one of the least employee friendly countries in Europe and many other European countries have even better provisions for employees 4. Another aspect he does not cover is that here in Europe/UK we have very good protections from being fired by an employer 5. Finally, you Americans have no idea how you are being screwed over by your country because it is essentially run like a corporation, by corporations for corporations. And you believe the lies the Republicans tell you that expecting any protection from state is being a communist. In Europe we have workers protections (so you cannot be fired on w whim), anti-discrimination protections (so you cannot be fired because you're black/gay/female etc), we have set minimum wage/pay, social security (so there is some basic safety if you become unable to care for yourself), free education (in UK only up to Highschool but in most Europe including University), free healthcare (so you don't have to worry when calling an ambulance or going to Hospital and can see a doctor for free, even the medicine is subsidised by state), effective public transport (you actually don't need a car, unless you live in countryside), consumer protections (i.e. on returning items, recently EU forced Apple to adapt USB charging), proper privacy laws, there are laws regulating what goes into our foods (so you can be sure that nothing harmful is there) etc etc. I cannot believe that so many Americans especially poor working class are voting for GOP/Republicans and believe their lies, even your Democratic Party would be seen as centrist in Europe and not wanting to go far enough to make life better for ordinary people. Your American Dream is a lie told you by billionaires that want to keep you poor as they are getting richer and richer

Asda here was run by Wallmart. My colleague was in a car accident, abd they wanted her to find a replacement for her shift. On another occasion, I was projectile vomiting & they wanted me to vontinue to the end of my shift. I was then in hospital for the next two days on a drip, and they kept calling me at the hospital, wanting me to arrange cover, and explain when I'd be back. It's the only aggressive company structure I've come across. They tried to convince me that Bank Holidays are only payable if you complete the entire working year, no matter how long you'd been there...instead of calculating a pro-rata entitlement as the year progressed. I used to work in payroll, so I knew they were wrong, but they kept arguing that they were right. Their American paymasters were trying to push through American company practices onto British workers, knowing that people needed the job, or couldn't be bothered with the fight, to disagree with them.

Hi Folks, Just to update you on US workers rights, Thanks to your 5th amendment, you have the right to remain silent I think that's how your employers like it.

JPS, it's up to you and your generation to change the face of US politics and turn it around from being an oligarchy (part theocracy) to a real democracy!!!

What's puzzling to me about this video is, that you're such a good sport about all this. I mean...the Britons had a celebration of the NHS even within the opening ceremony of the (amazing) 2012 olympics in London - that's how they cherish it as a major achievement. And it's the same over here in Czechia: we're extremely glad we got rid of communism back in 89, but we'd never give up on universal healthcare/mandatory sick leave/4 weeks of vacation. Never.

In the UK we don’t tend to use the term “the holidays” - we tend to refer to it by name. What’s are you doing at Easter? What are your plans for Christmas. The USA blows my mind in letting companies decide whether to give paid holiday or not. No company is likely to choose to do that when they can choose not to lol. I love living in England - yes we aren’t a perfect country and people will always complain about things, but in reality we are lucky. I can ring the GP in the morning and get a free doctors appt that day. I can get paid sick leave, I don’t have to go in when I’m really ill and make everyone else sick. I have 5.5 weeks holiday per year. In addition we don’t have huge extremes of weather and we don’t have extreme animals. I don’t have to choose between medication for my kids or feeding them. The most incredible thing that the US government ever did was brainwash people into believing they have a country that everyone is jealous of and wants to live in. In reality we don’t want to.

I took ill at work one day and the company were so concerned that they immediately sent me to a private clinic to have all the tests, x-rays and scans and they paid for it all. Although I could have gone to a NHS Hospital they decided they wanted immediate action to diagnose my condition. That's what you call a considerate and compassionate employer.

Yeah, love the wifebeater vibe. Just add in a few beers and a couple of belches for complete stereotype. Sorry about Evan. We in the UK have taken a nice ordinary American capitalist boy and turned him into a socialist and no, you can't have him back. He has grown on us

In Portugal Saturdays, Sundays and Holly Days dont count to Vacacions. Only the work days. So u can have 30 or more days of vacacions by year.

We used to say in the UK that the USA is 5 years ahead and 50 years behind. This video demonstates that perfectly. I lived in the USA for 6 years and my understanding from that experience is that if you have money your somebody, if you have little or none, your a nobody.

I get 31 days leave and 8 bank holidays. I have super flexi so can start and finish when I want. I love being British and think it's awful people in the US have so little time off.

Evan came to the UK to do a masters in mathematics, stayed on a work visa where he used his maths to help startup internet companies refine their marketing and algorithms. He changed visas from the employer-sponsors-you-to-stay kind to the special-talent-in-your-field kind, at which point he became a full time RU-vidr. He also has a travel channel on YT.

I'm from the UK, and let me explain why we have it so much better. We had around the 1940s, 50s, and 60s a somewhat socialist government. After WWII, a lot of the British middle class mixed with the Brattish working class, and saw how bad they had it. There was a real sense of 'togetherness' and therefore we created things like - first and foremost the idea of human rights. And based off of that, we gave basic rights to workers. But the UK in the late 1940s was essentially no different to the US today. We were the largest empire in the world - with the most wealthy people who would not give up their power. It was not without the struggle of the working/middle class that these concessions were granted. And they are just that - concessions. They are being rapidly rolled back by the current conservative/reactionary government. Real change comes with real struggle. The only reason we have these rights is because working people died for them. See the difference between Victorian workhouses and the "poor law", versus what exists today, and you will see the result of working class struggle. Britain was not created this way. We didn't stumble across workers rights. We fought for them. And need to do the same now, as America should do.

I'm pleased to see you've got mates joining you on these "enlightment" videos. Spread the word... and the US will become a better place, when they can''t brush you off with "that's impossible", "that could never work", "Sorry, can't be done" and bs like that. Peace and love

There is a law in the uk now called ‘shared parental leave and pay’. I’m not sure of the exact rules of it but parents can share the 52 weeks. I think they can choose to take the time together as well if they want to.

I think we should add that if you’re pregnant in the UK, your healthcare becomes free. No matter what income level you are at for the period you are pregnant so GP appointments prescriptions, dental appointments are all free

When you hear all these Americans chanting U.S.A , U.S.A. The self proclaimed "Greatest country in the world" . Yeah Right

The UK is blessed and is the TRUE land of the free!

As a uk government employee I get 28days , plus 8 public holidays and also an extra one for the Kings birthday. We are very lucky here in the UK that we have a good work/life balance.

When I had my business I would always send people home if they were ill. It's tough when you're a small business, but everyone pulls together to cover the work. Besides which, I didn't want the rest of them catching it. Including me! Despite the smallness of the business (6 folk), all the workers' rights legislation applied to me as an employer, and I was pleased to comply. Should be basic rights everywhere.

I had a small accident when I moved to the Netherlands and went into hospital for 14 days. Then, at the end of the month I received my salary and it was a little more than normal. I went up to HR to tell them but they said, ' Steve , when your sick you don't pay some stuff from your salary as your sick, so now you receive a little bit more" Loved it...

Just think about this; America fought and won their independence from the UK. 🎉 Americans don't get statutory sick pay or four weeks paid leave like we do in the UK, don't get maternity/paternity pay, they don't have free health and dental care, they don't have free residential care when you're elderly 😢 I think you'd have been better under UK rule 👍😁

I'm retired in the UK, but when I worked I was in a union and I am so pleased that Evan says that unions are coming back in the USA. Join one when you're at work, lads or if there isn't one, start one. Don't let corruption or organised crime take over, which I think is what gave unions a bad name in America in the old days and keep fighting for workers rights.

In Germany it's about the same as the UK. I had 3 OP's on my cervical vertebrae (neck joints). The 3 OP's were done over a space of 1 1/2 years with 13 stays in Hospital, ranging from 1 to 2 weeks at a time. Not only was I off work for 1 1/2 years but my job was waiting for me when I was done healing. The first 6 weeks are payed for by the employer, after that the health insurance steps in and I got 80% of my wage until I went back to work.

Paternity leave laws and leave have just improved in the UK.

From the UK here and get 30 days holiday a year, can’t believe Americans are so short changed on this!

Very interesting reaction, though I do watch Evan a lot, it’s good to see Americans react to what he has to say. In my humble opinion, I think US citizens need to be better informed about workers rights everywhere else in the world. Perhaps then they’d be more prepared to fight for them

UK companies will often optionally go above and beyond on stuff like maternity/paternity leave as an incentive for workers. A company I’ve worked for have offered 8months paid 100% and 2months paid 50% for maternity, paternity offered 4 weeks paid 100% and another 2 weeks at 50%.

"2 days sick pay". Meanwhile in the UK as a british police officer I had 3.5 months off work straight a few years back, all FULL pay, paid on time. When I returned my job was still there. In the last 4 years I was off work for 7 months, every month being paid on time and my full pay, and my job was always safe each time, AND my annual leave allowance was still exactly as it was before I was sick, 28 days per year. The USA really can't even compete when it comes to worker's rights...

Yay! Stefan and Arturo are back! You should take them to Britain JP! Evan is now a professional photographer.

As a Brit 🇬🇧I do wonder why Americans think that the USA is a free country??? Sorry to say it, but based on that video alone (which is not the first time I’ve seen it), if you don’t have the money, your slave labour to capitalists and the Government. End of!!!!! That to me is not a free country……..!!!!!! That to me is not life……!!!!! It’s shocking, I feel for you. You also chant your national anthem every morning at school. The last country that did that was Germany under Nazi rule. Oh except maybe North Korea……. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ What any why???? You can love your country be proud of it and support it, but not to that extreme??!!!???!!! That’s just screwed up and comes across as very narrow minded to the rest of the world. I strongly agree that you should stand up and fight for your basic human rights, I’m shocked that the USA is like this, it’s so sad!😢❤

In Finland maternity/paternity leave is paid 13 months and starts usually 1 month before due date. Maternity/paternity leaves are shared with both parents. You can give up to 4 months to other parent. For mother you will get 3 months 100% of your yearly salary, after that it changes to 70%. During your leave holiday days accrue normally. And if you happen to be in sickleave before your maternity leave then you can have 100% salary until 60 days( 5 days a week), after that government will pay you the sick leave. Oh and you can change you holiday money (yes we get about 50% of one month salary in a year) to days. So if you have 28 days a year as a holiday dates, you can change all the money to 14/15 extra days etc. Plus of course bank holidays which are during the week. Seems pretty good system...

Hearing Evan talking about his Pizza Hut conditions was just sad 😞 when I worked at a UK Pizza Hut holiday would be accrued by the hour. So for example, if you worked 1 hour per week you’d receive around 5 hours holiday pay to use throughout the year. Working overtime would bump up how much you’d receive in holiday pay. When you make these American companies follow basic levels of human decency in other countries they somehow still manage to thrive and make healthy profits - funny that!

Probably the same as for the US and UK back in the 1950/60s, men could earn enough to keep a family generally. Women could stay home to bring up the kids etc. No more

Workers rights / representation didn't come easily - look at things like The Peterloo Massacre & The History of Labour Law in the UK & you can see the struggle ordinary workers took so that today we can enjoy the benefits of paid holiday/maternity/sick leave

My company has just introduced 26 weeks fully paid equal parental leave (maternity or paternity) in the UK and you can take up to 52 weeks total. The hilarious thing is I work at a Coors brewery...

In Europe, this is common. Even if not in the European Union, it's just a result of a long battle and change of rights. It is a basic human right, and there are very strict with checking and making sure that it's not abused.

I mean, I’ve heard of Twinning but it’s nice to see Tripling with white tops.

Holidays at Christmas in the UK usually works out that most businesses actually close down for a week unless a person works in retail The basic work rights in the UK have been won over hundreds of yrs of workers fighting for these rights. We had unions in the UK dating back hundreds of yrs. But unions can also work against the worker too so it's a double edged sword which people have to be careful of

Not to mention the average bill for childbirth in the US is upwards of $18k, this is in free in most if not all of Europe. I know it depends on insurance in the US, but here we don't pay for true miracles.

I work for a UK Government Department where standard paid holiday allowance for me is 31.5 days per year, plus bank holidays and the Queen's birthday. I work flexible working hours so can arrange my day around my personal life and can work 3 days of a week from home. If I put the hours in with flexi working and build my hours, I can take up to 2-3 days per month off as flexi-time, in addition to the paid leave. I also get 6 months fully paid sick leave and a further 6 months at half pay.These rights were hard fought for by the Union I have been a member of for the last 32 years.

There were a lot of "should be's" from you guys. You're right, these basic rights should be in place for everyone, but one has to fight for your rights because the rich only get rich by taking as much as they can and giving as little as they can get away with. As my dad used to say "show me a rich man, I'll show you a thief". ✌️❤️🇬🇧

The lobbying system which effectively pays your politicians to pass legislation for the benefit of corporations absolutely has to be addressed. Politicians will simply not take a cut in their own income to improve the quality of life of their own constituents.

I work for nhs in uk. I work three 12.5 hour shifts a week in a hospital. I get 8 weeks off a year as I work weekends and holidays sometimes.

We have these rights in the UK because the workers fought for them, they all got together and brought the country to a standstill on more than one occasion.

to the uk being sick is more of a hindrance to employers as it could spread throughout the workforce and cause more people to need off, i’m not sure if the rule is the same for working but in schools if your child has been physically sick they must stay off for at least two days (not a policed rule but most people follow it anyway) and there’s no consequence to that it’s just “come back when you’re better”, and i know that with longer term illness most companies will give around 6 months of full sick pay until you’re cut to docked pay if provided doctors notes

Yes, what you call a vacation we call a holiday here in the UK. However, Christmas is just called Christmas, but we have Bank Holidays on Christmas Day, Boxing Day (26th December) and New Year's Day.

I once worked for a supermarket called Asda ( owned previously by Walmart) you were allowed to asked for something called Benidorm leave, this was where you could book up to 3 months where you could spend the winter in a warmer country and your job was safe. Bank holidays are extra days off, one at the begining of May, for May day, another at the end of May, Easter your given Good Friday and the Monday after and one at the end of August. If you work on a bank holiday or Christmas day/ Boxing day( day after christmas) and also New Years day, you get a day in lieu. An extra paid day off.

Romania here, I have 23 days of paid vacation, plus 12 days of bank holidays and overtime is paid at 1.8 x the hourly wage. For your information, a week is equal to 5 days of vacation, as only days worked are counted.

Land of the free is actually the land of the slave

In the UK it's actually 5.6 weeks holiday including statutory holidays (bank holidays). That's not just for full time employees either, part-time get prorated equivalency. For example a 2 day week would get 2/5 of 5.6 weeks. Basically you can't be sacked for being sick unless you can prove it's chronic and damaging the business. You can't be sacked without good reason full-stop, and they MUST give two verbal and two written warning (with slight variations) before they terminate employment, or be held accountable for unfair dismissal before an employment tribunal. The exception to this is gross misconduct or gross negligence - often requiring severe threat to business or life and permitting instant dismissal. You can't sack and replace someone and call it redundancy, if you make someone redundant, the job no longer exist. You can't alter working conditions or the job to a point you force them out, that is called constructive dismissal. In the UK people will volunteer to work statutory holidays for business that need to remain active. The way I remember it, it was double time plus a day off in lieu (extra day holiday) or triple time. Christmas and New Year the company could choose who did the shift, there were always volunteers.Usually September, October time a manager would come in ask whose working Christmas, the married ones stayed quiet and the single ones hand went up, and that was it.. One more thing, your entitlement of days off is YOUR ENTITLEMENT, even if you don't use up your allocation you are entitled to be paid for the remaining time, or use it. Some companies let you carry over some days and add it to the next years entitlement, others will tell you to use it - even force you to use it - as it is a legal requirement, others will let you cash it in - each day for a day's pay... But it is yours and they can't deny it.

In Germany we have a 5 to 6 day work week, so most people work Monday to Saturday and Sunday, as a holy day, they do not work. This applies to office and retail jobs, some exceptions are gas stations or restaurants, but usually gas stations change the shifts around then and restaurants use Mondays. Certain doctors even use Thursdays off, except hospitals, who generally have a higher workload and need to be ready for emergencies. On top of that there are vacation days you can get off, my father usually has 2 to three weeks, paid sick leave and holidays, like Christmas, Easter and carneval. Apart from all of that there is paid maternity and paternity leave and they cannot legally fire you because of that. Some of my old teachers got pregnant and were gone for a month and then later another two months, before coming back and when I heard that they could fire you because of that in the US I was horrified. Companies legally have no say in these rights and really shouldn't in my opinion.

in Estonia (a country in Europe) a woman who has given birth to a child can stay at home for 3 years without losing her job, and for 1.5 years the mother is paid a monthly salary in the same amount as her job

I was hit by a car cycling home from work in 2017. I got 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay. Then indefinite half pay through our pension policy. Luckily I returned to work. After 2 1/2 years. I can’t imagine not having sick pay. In this day and age it’s ridiculous.

I get 5wks paid holiday, paid sick leave, 8 day's paid Bank Holidays, a paid day off on my birthday, a paid day off to move house and 3 paid days to volunteer for a charitable cause 😁

I’m English, have lived in the US for 22 years; I work for a private company in the States and we get 29 days of bereavement leave a year; sadly I had to take advantage of that this year - I believe I am fortunate to have settled my family here and am able to work in this country

Yea we did refer to our accrued time off as 'holidays' at one time, but it has become more common to refer to it as annual leave these days in order to distinguish it from actual fixed holidays, i.e. Bank holidays.

That`s crazy how badly employee`s are treated in The US. Here in The UK my contract is for 35 Hours per week and for that I get 32 days paid holiday entitlement and if I have to go off Long term sick, I get 6 Months Full pay, then it goes down to half pay. All in all we don`t do to badly all things considered.

The vast majority of UK rights have been fought for by Unions otherwise the UK would be the same.

A year ago my employer pulled me aside and told me "Sandro, you have too many hours of backed up holidays. I am forcing you to stay home for one week." Hearing how American workers are being treated sends shivers down my spine.

You should look into Denmark,Norway,Sweden and Finland. It will BLOW your mind

The best kind of videos are the ones where you generate discourse organically. We’re ok with a 45 minute reaction, I guess? 😂

If you want a really good work/life balance, work in a non teaching role in education here in the UK. I get 13 weeks holiday a year (of which 5 weeks are fully paid and 8 weeks unpaid) with my wages split into 12 months equal payment. Hence I earn a little less than other workers but have much more time to enjoy my many interests and hobbies!

In Italy is more or less the same. - 4 weeks of 100% paid holiday. - 24 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (if you have a child, no matter if you're the father or the mother, you can stay at home 24 weeks to take care of the first 6 month of life of your child) - Unlimited sick days, if certified by a doctor (for free because we have universal health care) and you stay at home because a public control can come at home to verifiy you're really sick - Double paid if, for some reason, you work on sunday or an holiday day (like if you work in a restaurant during the 31st of december or other jobs that for some reason works on festivity) To name few

Enjoy your videos mate. I love the shock when you hear the differences between our countries. 👊🏻💙

On paternity pay the entitlement is 2 weeks, they can opt to take just one if they want. Fathers can also take a share of the maternity pay. So for example the mother goes back to work after 12 weeks, the father can take remaining 40 weeks off. It just doesnt happen that much. There are complex rules arround it as usually two different employers will be involved.

And with regards to 'having a baby...', don't forget in the UK we have the NHS so it cost's nothing. While in the US: giving birth costs $18,865 on average, including pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care, (according to the Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation 'KFF' Health System Tracker).

When I am sick I do not dare to go to the office, because my boss and co-workers will get angry and send me home. They are scared they get sick too 🤣🤣🤧

Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, once said: "Illness is not an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they are penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which must be shared with the community."

Christmas is often referred to as the 'Christmas break'. Most people automatically have at least Christmas day, Boxing day (26th Dec) and also New Years day as national Bank Holidays. Many take the days in between as well. Having 8 days off is pretty common. Obviously medical staff etc are exceptions.

You boys are hilarious. I love the way you all fell about laughing when Evan mentioned Dorney Park. As a Brit I have no idea why that’s funny. Holiday means vacation. We don’t really say “The holidays”, we’ll call it what it is - Christmas and New Year. Or possibly “the festive season”.

btw; i have this year 50 days paid vacation! my longest vacation been 2 months i spend in the USA.....

We call the seasonal event for what it is, christmas is christmas, easter is easter. We don't say when it christmas, "it's the holidays" thats stupid.

The thumbnail alone deserved a like. 😂😍

I thought this was the Village People presenting.

I work for the NHS - I get 33 days holiday plus 8 days for bank holidays (this is for over 10 years service). I got 8 weeks full pay for maternity leave then 4 months of half pay plus statutory maternity pay and after that it was just statutory maternity pay up to 12 months in total. You do also accrue holiday pay whilst on maternity leave, so you can use this to extend your maternity leave. My partner (also in the NHS) got 2 weeks paternity leave at full pay. You can do shared paternity leave, so the dad can take longer off but we didn’t do this. I know some couples who have done, for example the mum takes the first 6 months after the baby is born and then the dad takes the next 6 months off. As far as sick pay goes, in the NHS we get 6 months at full pay and after 6 months it goes down to 50% pay up to a total of 12 months. Also, in the UK you “self certify” for 1 week, which means your employer cannot demand a sick note from you if you have been sick for under 1 week. But obviously here we don’t have to pay for sick notes anyway.

With maternity/paternity leave in the UK, it's actually shareable. The mother has to take 2 weeks following the birth and the father has thier own 1-2 weeks allowance, but the remaining 50 weeks of the maternity allowance (both the time and pay) can be shared by either. The time can also be taken at the same time by both. It's also the same for addoptions. Another point that wasn't really called out was that the maternity leave can start 11 weeks before the due date. Which gives the mother plenty of time to prepare, and so they're not working hard right up to the birth, or even at work when they go onto labour.

My granddaughter is on maternity leave. She gets 12 months on full pay and if she needs any more time she gets half pay. Even when she goes back to work she only works part time, on full pay, for another 3 months. I know someone who had a heart attack, he was off work on full pay for 18 months then went back to work fully recovered.

I live in germany and get paid holiday for 30 days. In case I am ill the employer pays for six weeks the usual salary. In case you are still ill the insurance pays you around 70% of the salary. I am very thankful that the Generations before fought hard for that so that I can benefit. It is so normal nowadays for my generation. Your Generation in the US will have to stand up and fight for your rights otherwise nothing ever will change

In New Zealand we work 40hour weeks, we have minimum 4 weeks leave, 11 public holidays off each year, 10 days sick leave...we have minimum wage of 23.15 per hour, and 26 weeks parental leave fully paid

In Estonia we get 28 days a year for paid vacation. Office workers and people who work from monday to friday, get all national holidays off and get paid for them. If you work in a restaurant for example, you get paid double on national holiday`s. Maternity leave: You get paid the salary you had, when you went to maternity leave, for a year and half and you don`t have to work.

Why the vests?