Yeah, but don't forget how the police protect us from mass shoo... fuck.

Well don't worry at leady yous get free educati...oh nevermind

Technically, today is Labor Day and I could have had it off, but I volunteered to work so I could take tomorrow off for doctor stuff.

So here in Italy you get 168 hours of holidays, which you have to schedule in agreement with your employer; then you also have 104 hours of leave, which you can take whenever you need to, and your employer cannot refuse them. At a previous job we also had, as a second level agreement over the national collective contracts, 10 hours of medical leave, which you could use for... doctor stuff.

edit: you don't HAVE to take your holidays, but most employers FORCE you to, because it's costly for them if you don't, they pay more taxes and may get fined

"It all depends on who you work for."

Then it's complete byllshit then? Any company at any time can just change it whenever they like. Man,im sorry to say it,but America is bullshit

I've been with the same company almost 20 years, and I'm that time have taken so little time off, I have accumulated 75 days. But I just had a child a couple years ago, and this year I took 8 days off throughout the year, since she brought home so many sicknesses. One of those required 3 days off, and I actually got a doctor's note because it was 3 consecutive days and that's the policy.

It still came up in my review. I basically got a "barely passing" score with "needs to be more reliable".

Idk how it works in Germany, but here only the first 3 days of sick leave are paid by the employer, after that it's the national welfare agency that pays.

Why is that? What's you sick entitlement?