• A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    lol 12 weeks unpaid

    you know we europeans get money while sick based on our salary, so we don’t have to use up our financial reserves if we get sick. and this pretty long - after a few months sick pay gets reduced to about 70% of your income, but i was nearly a year on sick leave when my back crapped out hard and needed multiple surgeries. i never had to fear that i lose my living arrangement or even a lot of living standard - i didn’t even lose my job.

    your FMLA sounds like “you are allowed to die homeless if you are sick and don’t have reserves”