Why U.S. Vacation Policies Are So Much Worse Than Europe’s 

What, you get paid time of work for vacation in EU. Why is US so against it's own work force, you guys need to revolt or something

Yea mine is all combined into pto

Here in California, it's mandatory to give PAID SICK LEAVE of up to 24 hours a year if someone claims them. It's good and bad the way I see it. Problem can be that employees would lie and use them for non sickness reasons. And, sometimes you can't ask for prove that you were sick. Sick leave is specified for sickness only, keyword SICK.

PTO is another scam.

​@@dudetocartman most people are honest

You'd love Italy they pay for your honeymoon.

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Your situation is the perfect example of how because you all are making a priority of your employer and not yourself,you end up being exploited

Everything I hear about the USA makes me hate it even more.

​@@annaniezgodzka1101true

What company is this?? Because I am sick and tired of the 2 weeks vacation i get each year. When I worked overseas, I had AT LEAST 30 days.

My wife also gets 28 days of PTO + weekends + holidays. But her employer gets hostile towards her whenever she takes more than 1-2 days off at a time. So most of her vacation days go unused and wasted, so she can keep her job.

The German company that bought the machine shop I worked for did not offer us any more time off ! They loved the fact we had so little and used to complain about all the time allotted to their German based workers !!!!

@@bbo40Hypocrites!!

@marwarluigi as they should. Nobody should make you feel bad for taking time off. They need you you don't need them

My German friend is getting 3 years maternity leave

@@user-rr8hi6nl4f😮

That’s ridiculous

I took 2 weeks off to go see my family, and everyone at my job lost their minds. I put my pto request almost 6 months ahead because I knew I was gonna have 3 weeks of pto, and my parents live in another country. My boss made me feel so bad for taking my vacation. Talked to everyone about how privileged I was for using my pto. I was shamed by all my coworkers, like it was a bad thing that now I feel bad taking any time off. In my line of work (retail), people never take more than a Friday - Monday (4 day weekend) off.

Leave.

I hate the ones that practically want doctors notes if you call out sick

That's what happens when culturally we tie our career to our self-worth. We think our default state is to work, vacation is secondary

@@jtgd it’s even worse when your health insurance is tied to the job….

America sucks

This off topic but how was your transition out of the military? I plan on getting out and don’t want to get in the cycle of people thinking they need to army to survive

I hope my fellow Americans realize that this is not normal. Republican Party hates regulations and workers’ rights. They are to blame as usual

@@illuminativon6542 my CMC was literally yelling at me when I said I wouldn't reenlist "what are you going to do out there?? How will you live??" (I'm being serious). I got most of my college done while I was in and finished my degree with the g.i bill, I'm in healthcare now (was a grease monkey in the Navy) and it's definitely better than being in. I do miss the people though, other than that civilian sector is a billion times better

Your company isn’t representative of the entire base of employers. I take time off all of the time. You’re ignorant.

@alfonsodigrezia5208 One thing about what you said is true. Every unemployment rate is a multiple of the American one. fx. Denmarks unemployment rate is 0.7 or 70 % of the US. As in lower, much lower. Also you can't take a vacation if you are unemployed.

@alfonsodigrezia5208 USA is the only developed country in the world that does not have human rights and employment rights mandated by law. Instead of standards, you have benefits dictated to you by your employers who are allowed to treat employees like 19th-century workers and you have been brainwashed into being proud of that fact. In the UK employees have a minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid vacation a year which you can build more on. If you are sick you will get paid none of these ridiculous allocated sick days you have in the US. I was off work for six months on paid sick leave with a condition I have. If you are sick while you are on paid vacation you will not lose those days they will count as paid sick days and you claim those paid vacation days back. If you are off work for a long period of time on paid sick leave you are still entitled to your paid vacation. The same applies if you are off work on maternity leave. A year of paid maternity leave fathers can take paid paternity leave. If you need time off work for hospital appointments etc you get paid. Paid bereavement leave my sister took five months off work on paid bereavement leave when her son died. The USA is the only developed country in the world where your healthcare is tied to your employment. In the rest of the developed world healthcare isn't a privilege it is a right that everyone has the same access to regardless if they are in employment or not. If you are going back to work after a period off with an illness or disability your employer has to make adjustments for you such as going part-time, taking more breaks, adjusting your workspace, etc. You can't get fired for ridiculous reasons like you can in the US because employees are protected by their employment rights. USA companies have tried and failed to come to Europe and other countries such as Australia etc because they thought they could impose their draconian employment policies on People. They found out you can't treat employees like that we have laws against it. They stupidly went to court lost and were sent packing back to the USA.

@alfonsodigrezia5208 What you have written about Europe is complete rubbish by the way. Get a passport, get a clue, get six weeks of paid vacation mandated by law, and travel to see how backward your country is treating its citizens. You live in a country where people put off going to the doctor or calling an ambulance for fear of medical bills. Where people ration or go without their medications simply because they can't afford them. The USA is the only developed country in the world where people beg strangers for money on Go-Fund-Me to help pay for their medical bills. You stay in jobs that make you miserable because your employer has you and your family by the balls with Medical Insurance. If you are sick you are afraid to take time off work because you won't get paid and if you need a lot of time off work with illness your employer can fire and you certainly won't get paid and will have to live off your savings. Women are forced back to work after giving birth for fear of losing their job and if they do have a few pathetic weeks of maternity leave it usually isn't paid. In the UK women are not even signed off from postnatal care a midwife comes to your home for the first two weeks to check on the health of the mother and baby. If an employee has a death in the family their co-workers donate their own precious few sick days and leave (often unpaid) so they can have time off to be with their family arrange the funeral etc. Hideously expensive education debt follows Americans around for decades much like your medical debt people also find themselves trapped in. For a country armed to the teeth with guns, you guys are amazedly passive in how you allow yourselves to be screwed over.

@alfonsodigrezia5208 Job security =/= life security. In Europe, even if you're unemployed, you have health insurance. You don't become bankrupted and homeless if you get seriously sick. America is very much a broken country when it comes to way it treats its workers. So, I'll edit your last sentence a bit - USA once WAS a country of hope and recognition, but overall life quality is better in almost every EU country. And this is just regarding work and vacation - I won't even start with crime, guns-related violence, public transportation and quality of food.

​@alfonsodigrezia5208You have really drunk the Kool Aid, haven't you? Here's a hint: it is NOT unpatriotic to admit that your country isn't perfect and needs improvement. You can acknowledge the truth: workers in order countries are treated better than American workers. Put down the Kool Aid so you can stand up for yourself! You're letting yourself be walked on and bragging about it.

Amen!

Correct

This is why Covid was so bad in the U.S. many people (including myself) had to work while sick. That’s how it spread so well.

@@mastersnet18 Terrifying. Im glad you made it through!

Paying an employee for two years when sick is excessive.

@@MrJumpingmaniac Not really. If an employee is legitimately sick to the point of dehabilitation for 2 years then clearly it was needed. Most people who end up in protection probably don't even use it for more than a handful of months in case of more serious injury or sickness. It's a *limit* not a *average* .

I am not surprised why some employers only give out a very limited to no amount of sick leave in the US and Canada. I have heard lots of stories of co-workers and from friends' co-workers pretending to be sick and using sick days just to take a trip somewhere. Lots of dishonesty. They do this so they use up unused sick days and keep their vacation days whole for that grand yearly trip to the Bahamas or Hawaii or Vegas. Employers keep a blind eye on this and do not seem to mind why their employees are always calling in sick. Corporate culture is also to blame for this dishonesty.

Do you need a a wife ?

Retire at 61 is not called early. My boss is retiring at 54.

@@miviaflower Generally it's considered early to retire before 65 because that's when medicare kicks in. Most people don't get healthcare in the U.S. if they retire before 65.

​@@miviaflower It's early in the US. You can't get on the government health care plan until 65 and full-retirement is 67 in my case. I'm 50 now and plan to retire early at 60. Since my husband is younger I will still have access to his health insurance plan until I can apply for the medicare at 65. It's the reason the US will never have socialized medicine. The need for health insurance keeps people in servitude.

Did u get plateaued at work? That's what usually happens.

Why do they get fired I don't understand.

@CR Budget Watches in some cases as a punishment for not being their working, i.e. "a lack of dedication to the company", in others it leaves an opening for someone with an "eat or be eaten" mentality to start blaming you for mistakes and failures while you're gone and unable to protect yourself. And finally, for some, it's just because they can. Whether it be an excuse for a power trip or as an example to others. It's less about the "why" and more about if they should even be able to in the first place. This is one thing a lot of unions and employment attorneys fight against often.

@CR Budget Watches oh, and one other point I nearly forgot, is that even if a company doesn't do these things, the fear that they could often causes them not to take time off theure entitled to. So even the fear that they might is beneficial for the employer.

Couldn't you sue them?

@@maythesciencebewithyou sadly, where I live, the attornies i spoke to said I couldn't do anything. Labor attorneys here probably go hungry a lot since the laws favor the employers.

That’s nuts - I’m in the U.K. and just today I requested 1 week of leave. It was authorised within an hour or me putting in the request.

I once had a colleague who was fired by email while he was out of town for his brother’s funeral - completely heartless thing to do, but “justified” by the fact that he was gone for more than the measly two days he’d been given off to travel, attend the funeral, and return.

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It's horrible.

Agreed

US work culture is not toxic. Its considered heaven compared to the Japanese

@@secrets.295 True. lots of Asian countries. Not look at their population, they're so overworked, they can't bother to date and breed. What's the point of life without family and relationships

Yep, get my 4 weeks leave a year, 15 paid sick days and having been at the same employer more 7 years have long service leave also :)

And Americans think the rest of the world really wants to move to the USA so badly

​@@karlabritfeld7104 I'm trying to leave lol

@@karlabritfeld7104 literally! Like the rest of the world looks at the US as a third world country🤦‍♀️

not sure if Asia would agree that "most of the world" has more time off

Wow, that sounds like a really toxic culture. Probably deliberately understaffed.

sounds very toxic

All of the questions are irrelevant, and that should have been your answer!

I had a week the past two years

Yeah we were really like, "if we give our lords more wealth and power surely they will split their good fortune us serfs." And then they didn't, but no one wants to admit this was a massive loss. We have nothing to show for it. It's depressing really.

Middle class Americans never thought that. Some oligarchs in power thought that

@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist True, but then folks earnestly believe in that crap. It was not an unpopular move at the time. Folks generally agreed with these moves.

Nah those workers just beat the system. They're smart. Your average Homer Simpson works all year round like a sucker!

So true 🤣 I used to do that

Then you have to be able to survive with no income during your down time? That sux.

Many in retail stores choose a schedule or have some arrangement at least for the better jobs out there. Here in Seattle the minimum wage is around $17 an hour so it's a lot of money one of the highest minimum wages in the world.

Many take unpaid time off

You are free to apply for a government job. Tolerating a lot of BS goes along with it. Your choice.

Too bad, if PTO is a PART of your COMPENSATION PACKAGE, then you are ENTITLED TO IT!!!

​@@johnp139just cuz you have PTO doesn't mean you're going to be able to use it

Enjoy your vacation!

Absolutely! I don't think anyone in Europe ever considers not taking all his time off from work. This is very sad someone does that.

@@perthfanny3017 HR would even be up my A to make sure I used all my vacation days by the end of the year

Many employers will cut you a check at the end of the year for any unused PTO hours. Sometimes, that check feels more valuable than the time off.

My boss won’t let us use more than 2 weeks pto at a time no matter how much pto you have. Work in retail sucks.

I had this at pioneer in texas. I spent 2 months overseas all the time

Maybe one reason to convince americans to hire in Germany.

In my country, many people brag of how they live to work. They share "war stories" of how many hours they worked, but they claim they are living. Their lack of self-awareness is staggering. Funny, most of them wouldn't do their job for one minute if they were not paid, so clearly it is not that they love their job. What they love is they feel important performing the obeisance of working long hours. Anyone who doesn't feel that way is denigrated by most of these losers. But, they often make more money for their long hours and the ones with money control the messages in the media. So, even though their families are dysfunctional and unhappy within, even though these tragic fools are missing out on the best years of their lives, they swear up and down they are living life on the right path. They simply don't know when enough is enough.

@@Herro1063 where you been working? Ive had no less than 1 month at any job for many years now as ive switched kany times. You gotra choose better companies

It's not common in Germany. 30 days vacation, Yes. But nothing like extra salary etc etc. 7 public holidays is also common.

F them people, I’d do it again and wouldn’t feel bad about it. You earned your time and days, so can the other people. It has nothing to do about being privileged.

@@sentinel151 exactly

PTO is part of your benefits! It's like shaming someone for collecting their paycheck or using their health insurance. So ridiculous.

Find a better job and stop complaining. You are not a victim.

Dude, you work retail. Grow up

So you didn’t read the policy…ok. You also make RU-vid clickbait videos, so everything you say should be questioned. I have 6 weeks of PTO and unlimited sick days. And I earn much more than my slow colleagues in NL who can’t be trusted to run projects.

It's not European, it's everywhere but the US. There are third world countries with more vacation days ...

I find 5 weeks very little (based in NL). I'm only going to work for companies with more than 6/7 weeks.

@@redwhite_040 that’s why your economy is in ruins, like the rest of the EU.

I love your channel. Keep it up.

So, you'd like to live somewhere else?

But morons there really believe it’s the best country in the world hahahahahahahaha

@@jamisojowho wouldn’t?

+Huge crime rates for a developed country + massive inequality and poverty rates

​@jamisojo as someone outside of the US I'd rather live in any other 1st world country

so what, is the entire world suppose to do that because Norway does?

Wow

And compared to the EU, even that is low. Sick days are separate from PTO as it should. If you get sick during pto, that will be swapped to sick.

I'm in the UK and I started on 28 days paid days annual leave (on top of the national holidays etc.). After 5 years this went up to 33 days. Staff are allowed to purchase up to 10 more days too as a salary sacrifice, and can carry over up to 10 days of their leave balance into the next financial year. So it's possible you could have 53 days to take in a year (or nearly a week off a month!)

Lot of companies will use sick leave and vacation time in the same pool for PTO. I work in local government where my sick time is separate from vacation. There is some quality of life in government work but the pay is somewhat lacking. I would rather have a decent quality of life over high salary but working like a dog.

Yeah, the mandatory amount of vacation in Canada starts at only 2 weeks. I'm not a good example since I get a lot of nice government perks (we have a good union). I don't know what it's like for Canadians who work in the private sector or aren't unionized.

So when do the people stand up against this? And when will the Unions address this?

Not even an afterthought - not even thought of at all.

This country is on fire and we have to keep moving so we don't catch on fire as we watch it burn. I say Get The High Ground have a drink and a blow and watch it go

So you are being FORCED to not work those 40 days rather than be compensated for working???

@@johnp139I could get paid out 10 of those days and/or lose the rest if I don’t take them. However, my manager will typically intervene if I am working too much.

Nope, but nice try spewing the same ridiculous bigoted BS that the media feeds you. The US has more cultures internally than nearly every other country. We are also geographically located far from other nations so flights are long and expensive. I’ve been to nearly 50 countries. Stop being a bigoted and ignorant clown.

The only time Americans can understand that the whole world does not revolve around them is when they visit the other parts of the world. Not just other developed countries but those developing countries as well. I believe Americans will realize so many things and appreciate more if they experience the culture and norms of other countries.

@@lukasloh2509 the irony of this statement as you spend your free time obsessing over the US. Silly europoor.

​@@lukasloh2509 Capitalism in America is pretty much synonymous with Narcissism.

The system in America keeps people ignorant and cut off from rest of world and instills a sense of superiority while keeping them ignorant.

False. I'm here in Costa Rica with beautiful beach weather right now and even the waitress said she was knocking my beach home door in a little while cause she has a surprise for me Freelance is #1 dude

@@internet2055 what do you do?

There plenty of them here in Bali...

@@alejandroramirez-ih7jv 😎

Facts, or we work a job involving physical labor or a trade :P

This. Every year my manager is just pushing to use the time and if there is vacation on the table they will pull me in around November to tell me again.

Not taking enough leave actually negatively affects your 'work record' in the eyes of HR and Payroll in most countries as it messes up their books in regard to labour costs and budgeting for that as they still have to pay you that paid leave money regardless.

​@@ChineseKiwiHonestly if I had a job I wouldn't even ask for time off because there's a chance they might just not approve it so what's the point in asking

@@marcellofunhouse1234 they do in most of the world eh.

In France if you don't take all your paid vacation, the company has to pay you extra. So companies push people to take them.

you are only free here to work. We are not the land of the free. We are free to buy as many guns as you could possibly afford and shoot anyone who scares you *only applicable to a single skin tone I think the issue is people still hold onto "the american dream" as if it could potentially come true for them. in reality its more of a nightmare. Will i be able to leave? No. they dont hold your passport, but they do hold you in poverty so you cant leave.

they are slave but they dont know it.

I take all my sick leave😂 and use my vacation

America is a business, not a country.

@@faheemabbas3965 yep

The company knows how much time each employee has, so they are RESPONSIBLE to make sure that there is coverage during these times.

Strange in the US you care so much about your employer not your own lives!

Wow. Unheard of in the USA. And Americans just meekly accept it.

Maybe we should give shares to the workers... why don't we skip doing it and give them free vacation. USA way is that everything is reinvested in the "Fortune 500" while making sure nobody knows how the country is working, school is like poverty house for the broke.

@@EIonMusk1 thank you for the class 🤓 There are quite a few distinctions just between each of the 6 I've lived in, which is why I specifically named one like Iceland to give you some details. If you'd like I can offer some further nuanced details on Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, the UK? Though since you seem to be quite the 🤡 I think you're more than up to the task yourself.

Excellent points, but so long as American voters fail to "vote their economic interests", nothing will likely change here - sad to say. Significantly, there is only one national political party that has consistently blocked efforts in Congress (and vaious state legislatures) in recent decades to improve the lives of workers - including guaranteed, reasonable paid vacation. I'll let you guess which party.

What good are unions in the face of Boomers determined to make life worse for all future generations? We literally won't be able to have any meaningful change in this country until enough of the boomers die off.

Exactly. I know so many parents who have used all their "vacation days" to take care of their sick kids.

True.

Yep, I had to have a tumor cut out of my throat once, before we even knew if it was cancer or not, and I had to burn all of my sick time and vacation time for the year before I could use an additional couple weeks of FMLA to recover.

Agreed.

In Germany you get financial support from your health insurance when you need to take care of a sick close relative. Not in the case of a flu of course, but when your parents or kids need at home care due to serious illness or disability.

Europe is the place to be

These benefits are provided to skilled workers as an incentive to work for the company. The lower down the chain you are, the less likely you are to get these benefits.

What are your thoughts on the cultural differences in regards to employees respect/loyalty to their employer in the EU? Are they more loyal (work for an employer longer) and thus the relationship is healthier both ways?

@@Parkanvas8 In my opinion, workers are NOT loyal to their employer. They are proud in their knowledge and use of strong French workers' rights. It is because it is almost impossible to fire a salaried worker with a indefinite work contract. People stay in a job not because they are loyal but because they are comfortable. Employees don't need to practice their "respect or loyalty" to an employer because it is a job that they are working at the end of the day, and no more. They are not and don't feel indebted to their job.

Great job, sis! 👏🏿👏🏿 Questions for you: What made you leave the US? Do you plan to stay in France indefinitely?

@@itsthequeenfatima Thanks for your thoughts! It’s a very unique work culture in France. It is quite different from Northern Europe (Dutch, Scandinavian, Germans). I find it fascinating that the Northern Europeans have terrible weather, a far higher retirement age and less paid vacation days but consistently top numerous surveys and studies on happiness and well-being.

@@LBellatrix I never made the decision to leave. I came here and decided to stay little by little. I don't know if I will stay here. While France is great, America is home!

That's one of the biggest advantages of being an educator. I love having every major holiday off including the summer.

@@krazyfan2000 Exactly.

Yeah but they don't pay you 💩 I was a teacher for 10 years you can keep that check

@@comedianpottymouth Yeah, pay is not that great. Depends on where you work.

@@TomWatsonB1 I'm in ark Sarah put all teacher starting pay at 50k for a country town teacher who starting pay was 19k they about to live like kings but in little rock they gonna be able to survive with just 1 job

More proof that republicans have ruined the US and cheat us out of the rights that Europeans have

Just say Target

There's no real reason for that either, it's just about control and at the end of the day just make it as inconvenient as possible for people to take their time off. There's so much you can do about staff automation and in cultures where long and frequent vacations are common they can sort that stuff out with a week's or two of notice. I'd be hard pressed to think that the company you work for is so extremely inefficient that they couldn't handle what thousands upon thousands of companies handle constantly. It's just about control and keeping people down.

just leave. They say Costco treats their employees way better

​@@VinceRiviera Not just control but money. American companies are all about productivity, record profits, and pleasing shareholders. Hiring a temp to cover extended vacation costs money that no one wants to spend so nobody brings it up, and government doesn't want corporate donors mad so they don't touch that topic. Europeans arent nearly as productivity focus, the mentality is more "it'll get done eventually".

Thats not your problem, there are so many temp companies they can use while you are on vacation

@@roscojayco5527 Also, you know, explain to your colleagues what needs to happen. Colleague is taking a few weeks vacation at the end of May, told me he would show me what to do to keep things running smoothly. When I leave I tell him what to do.

Not your problem. Periodt

@@roscojayco5527 no small business will hire a temp person to cover

@@roscojayco5527 in my case there isnt a temp that can do my job. There isnt enough work to hire another person who has my skillset, and I'm the only employee who can do my job at my workplace. When i go on vacation no one does my job and its crucial to the business. When i come back projects are sitting on hold and need to be addressed before we lose our customers. It sucks.

*in some countries in Europe

​@@lester12345 Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Finland and Greece. So most countries in rich "Western" Europe that justify being compared to the US. I think it was implied I didn't mean "Eastern" Europe.

​@@billdexhart5179 not true in Italy

@@lollllloful I’m basing myself on Wikipedia. So I’m going to go with them.

In Finland, there used to be a "coming back -bonus", about one month's salary's worth extra if people just returned from their summer vacation. In most cases, this is now changed to vacation pay, which is paid in the beginning of the summer vacation season.

We can't. We paid our government to over saturate the labor market with illegals.

That job wasn’t worth having.

Some NASA contractors

Lumping vacation and sick days (which should be unlimited) together is disgusting and inhuman.

I get two weeks of paid vacation with some paid sick time. Plus paid holidays however, if I want 3 weeks of paid vacation, I needed to be in the company for 10 years...lol

As if getting sick is your own fault. What a idiot working culture in the US.

That would be illegal in the EU! We get 6 months at full pay if you fall sick, also if you are ill on your vacation days you get the vacation days back to use again.

Why should people be FORCED to NOT WORK?!? STUPID!!

That sucks. My current job offers me 15 days and I’ve been here about 1.5 months. Have you thought about another job? You probably could get a substantial raise if you left for another company as well.

Why do you do that?

@@number8killer383 My current job is in a rural area with no opportunities nearby and I make 40% more than I would even in a big city. Great pay, terrible quality of life. I’ve already begun quiet quitting.

They find ways around this though. Many companies give "Unlimited flexible PTO" rather than a set number of days, so they bypass the PTO payout (x dollars per hour of PTO accrued) requirement.

I work as a seasonal worker (landscape) so I’m out of work 2ish months a year. I worked for Chewey in their warehouse for 2 winters, and each time I left to go back to landscape, I received a check for my accrued pto

As good as this sounds, it would actually put small companies out of business because the finances simply aren't there for them to provide such benefits to their employees.

@@effend446 paid holidays are not mandatory in the US. Companies that can't pay should just not offer PTO or have fewer PTO days within their finances, or, they can actually insist employees actually use their PTO days *shock*. Many companies have empty PTO policy that looks nice but end up not really being available to most staff

@Phillip Banes International company. Has offices everywhere in Europe. HQ in Switzerland....

As someone who moved to France from the US, I can tell you that life can still be stressful, but the lifestyle allows you to destress. Also, the food quality is so much better, which will definitely help with any health issues.

Good, go!

It's been proven that French workers, even if working less hours than US workers, are still more productive!

France's economy is proof they don't work harder. They're protesting now because the retirement age has gone up to 64 because they don't work enough to sustain the 62 year model.

In Australia we also have 10 days paid sick leave and WorkCover (long term paid medical leave if required for mental and physical health), it's crazy to think that the US doesn't have that in place and it's a sign that they think everyone is disposable.

You make it bad for the rest of us. You should be mad about that

​@@SpektrikMusic it really all depends where you work. I get 14 days of sick leave and one month of paid time off and I'm in the US so. Many jobs have the benefits and many do not.

USA runs like a third world country taking advantage of people.

here in germany you get 6 weeks of paid sick leave and after that the health insurance jumps in and pays 80% of your net salary as long as it takes. i took this for 8 months a couple years ago because of a back injury. vaccation is for recreation.

The US is too busy funding the military protection of Europe, to better itself.

lol? even in Turkey we can go to hospital or doctors appointments without spending vacation time. and we getting still payed by companys first 2-3 day. if it take more than 2-3 day then government paying our salary. you americans are slave but u guys dont know it. they saying freedom bla bla. in reality u guys just working 24/7. i have 4 week vacation time in a year. and its only for vacation. so if i get sick or something im not loosing my vacation time.

That's baffling. American Dream™, right?

That is insanely depressing omg

Imagine thinking getting married should excuss you from the works you are supposed to do...🤦‍♂️

@@konigstiger3252 imagine thinking there is more to life outside of work. Or should people simply live at the office and only go home to sleep? Better yet get beds in the office that way no one leaves ever!

@@mastersnet18 i got no problem with people taking breaks. I got problem with people that unwilling to put in the times to catch back up afterwards

@@konigstiger3252 There shouldn't be a "catch up" afterwards. There should just be a "welcome back, here's where you left off".

How did your spouse feel when her newly husband she married was unemployed shortly after marrying?

Just cause you have PTO doesn't mean you can use it

It's sad this was how I got my first vacation in ten years.

I almost got fired for using 4 days of the two weeks allotted to me when I got Covid in 2020. Just because time is allotted to you, doesn't mean that you can actually use that time. It depends entirely on the culture of your work environment.

Hell yeah 🎉😂

Australia is 20 by law....and you have to take them by law....

@@calj2090 that’s incredible! Go Australia 🇦🇺

In Germany it is 24 days the minimum. Mostly the maximum is 30. But there also expextions when u work shifts you can get up to 45 in some companys

@@namkama6649 can you import me to Germany please?

It's not unnoticed, it's ignored because it doesn't benefit companies. The government won't step in and regulate because said corporations have effective lobbyists and give large donations to politicians so that laws will benefit them.

If you don’t take your time off, then that’s their problem!!!

Just take non-paid time off. It’s the same thing as negotiating paid time off but you have the option to earn more if you wish.

I work in Luxembourg and I agree with you. I Get around 28 days but increases by 2 days every 2 years of seniority maximum up to 36 days. And also the public holiday system in Luxembourg is amazing. If the public holiday falls on the weekend, we get the day added to our paid leave account. Blessed to have good work life balance 😅

As an American I've never had one paid day off ever. I simply wasn't fired for not showing up when I usually worked 80hr weeks. Now I work for myself

@@NotSoEntertaining. Be Luxembourgish. This is part of the problem. We are trained to think such privileges are and should only be great to top level executives or very special use cases. When the rights are guaranteed by law and enforced they are extended to everyone. I've met minimum wage workers in developing countries who still take their holidays because it is paid. My mother in the US has to beg for more holidays, even offering for them to be unpaid, and when she does take a vacation she works because we are guilt tripped into thinking we never deserve an actual break

Im in US and I laugh as well

who the hell wants to live in luxembourg lmao

I think Americans (and Canadians) don't take enough time to really explore our respective countries.

And then they aren't able to schedule anything in advance. They can't make a reservation or appointment anywhere if they have no idea when they'll be off from work. American work culture needs change.

Good on you guys. I think each generation should learn from the mistakes of the older ones; that's how society moves forward. It's unfortunate that each generation calls the next lazy, forgetting that the ones prior once called them lazy too. I'm a millennial, but I'm rooting for Gen Z to help us escape this toxic idea of tying work to our self-worth.

genz also lacks critical thinking skills so cant work that well anyways without massive supervision.

u guys just need wake up. americans are working like slave. u guys not have freedom or anything.

@@superblondeDotOrg Most Gen Xers and baby boomers are Trump supporters, so they definitely lack critical thinking skills as well

Every 6 months I’m Gone for e week. And I’m not playing about it.