American Reacts to British Worker's Rights!
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- This is Evan Edinger's insightful comparison of workers' rights in Britain versus the USA. From paid leave to job security and work-life balance, let's explore the differences and similarities in labor rights between these two countries!
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What Americans call "Employee benefits" we call "Employee Rights".
What Americans call 'lobbying' I call 'bribery'. The only difference between the two seems to be that one of them is published.
CORRECT😅
Or ”the law”
Could not have said it better at all.
They are still called Employee Benefits in the UK too LOL
In Germany, it is considered bad manners to show up to work ill. You could get the whole department or clients sick. I find it inexcusable that a manager would guilt-trip a sick employee to come to work in the food industry. It's totally irresponsible.
In france when a coworker dont come because he's sick its a double win :
- we dont get sick because of him
- we have more work that lead to our favorite past time : complaining ! ^^
its a win win !
I totally agree. It’s completely inconsiderate!
Same in UK it's considered rude and selfish
@@Dan_does_reels it is. Wasn't always. But deffo now.
I agree with you. That's why people were told to isolate during the pandemic. I am in the UK.
It would be too detrimental to the US to allow you to have more accessible time off, because then more might go abroad and learn all the lies they've been spoon fed about the states since birth, and pop that bubble.
Yep, they want to keep their eyes shut to the rest of the world so the system can feed them whatever BS they want.
If Americans were able to travel around the world like Europeans do, it's very likely that it would open up a lot of eyes and that would likely have a big impact on political change, I suspect the last ones that want that is the Republican Party and corporations in the US, because the system as it is now, works in there favour and allows them to screw over the American people.
Nothing will change in the US unless the people wake up and change themselves, in fact, I suspect things will get worse for them, especially with this A.I. and robotic boom that's on it's way, after all, I'm sure many will see how that will benefit the rich elites and corporations far more than it does the average citizens, whereas in Europe, governments would likely step in so that wealth is more evenly divided, mainly because of the social system and safety net.
Basically, the A.I. and robotic revolution that's on its way over the coming decades could be the thing that breaks the US system, as people are thrown out of a job and under a bus, if unemployment numbers rise to a high level, it could start a revolution against the rich elites and against the government.
Europe and most modern countries will most likely beef up there social programs or have a universal basic income to cover the majority of the population, which will be far easier to do if A.I. and robotics is doing most of the work, but in the US, the wealth is more likely to end up in the few hands that already have it, in other words, the inequality divide in the US could skyrocket thanks to A.I. and robotics if they are not careful.
Wow I thought the same but asked myself if I was exaggerating but now it doesn't
Nice, so true.
No the yanks are to thick to realise .
It's absolutely true. The Americans are like North Koreans . They brainwashed from childhood. They think America is the whole world and other countries are just second grade. The propaganda machine is insanely powerful
Looks like Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery but forgot to tell US corporations.
I say that all the time slavery wasn't abolished it was just DIVERSIFIED.
Abraham Lincoln didnt abolish slavery...The british abolished it in 1834, 30 years before the US in 1865.
@@simonkirk3067obviously they're talking about abolishing slavery in the US, which the UK was not responsible for
@@ActuallyAnanya actually the UK were Massively responsible for the Abolishment of slavery in the US as well as most countries which condoned it. It was the British Navy who set up a department and parolled the seas fighting for the freedom of slaves, The influences Lincoln to join in the anti slavery bill. they made many countries opinions on slaves change bringing in the WORLD WIDE Abolishment of slavery act. There's a documentary on RUclips about how they did it. Even Americans who have set up reaction channels saying how NON of this was taught in school.
@@ActuallyAnanya Britain WAS massively responsible for the Abolishment in the US, it was Britain who set up a Royal Navy team who patrolled the Seas arresting slaves traders, they Influenced the US, the all so Fought/Created the WORLD wide Abolishment of Slavery act, there's documentaries about it. Students in the US weren't taught that because it doesn't fit the narrative.
The US system is alien to me. When my mother died, my work said "take as much time as you need" I had 6 weeks, full pay and I feel far more loyal to that company for it. They did alright by me so, I'll do alright by them. You can keep your alleged land of the free.
I had a friend whose baby died the day that baby and Mum were supposed to come home from hospital. The company he worked for sent he and his wife to New Zealand for up to a month (fully paid for) to get over it (not that they did). The company didn't have to do this but did it anyway - the interesting thing is it was a USA headquartered company
@@ianmontgomery7534you do get some decent ones it's just really rare
How much do you pay in taxes?
@@notmyrealname1730 Basic rate 20% for anything over £12k . What that's got to do with it though as my employer paid me, not the government?
@@oakfieldmassive7687 Americans sometimes dislike we have better healthcare and better employment and benefits.rigjts for less.money
I would like to point out that workers' rights are a European thing and part of EU regulations as well as those of individual countries. They're not just a British thing. I can't imagine living in the USA and not having the employment legislation that we have. You need Trade Unions.
We HAVE unions. But "America bad" right?
And a lot of European countries have even better conditions for workers than the UK, especially the Nordics.
Something to bear in mind
Amazon, McDonald's, Starbucks etc operate in the UK. They have to provide these workers right and a minimum wage of $14.59 for employees aged 21 plus.
Their businesses have not collapsed and still make massive profits here. Don't get me wrong at least 2 of the above are seen as crap employers but they still have to follow the law.
And Walmart owned Asda.
@@alexgill2455 Not anymore
In Australia, Starbucks batistas get $25 AUD ( which is around $17 USD) with 4 wks paid annual leave per year for full time, 2 wks for part time, plus paid sick leave
Pity they don't pay their taxes !
Reasonableness is a legal standard in the UK "the man on the Clapham omnibus"
in employment law, determining if an employer acted reasonably is usually done by reference to whether another employer in the same circumstance would've have made a similar decision, which does water down the reasonableness test quite a lot.
@@UwU_for_Christ while you are right in regards to that, it does not effect the reasonableness standard of bereavement leave as its already a defined standard called the reasonableness standard.
the part your mentioning is usually based on non defined scenarios such as the conduct of an employee causing them to be dismissed.
I used to work for one of the big supermarkets in the UK, stacking shelves during the night. I donated one of my kidneys to someone (so you could say I elected to take time off to be sick, I volunteered to do it after all) and I was really impressed when I received seven weeks’ full sick pay from the company while I recovered. When I came back yo work I was put on light duties: day shifts working the tills. I was really impressed by that.
Well done you! 👍
To someone, tho? That’s a big thing to just do for “someone”?
@@yamyite I don’t need it, so why not help someone who does?
@@lauradawson7964 Well depends on the sort of life style you want to live. Strangely on the same day recently I found out the old boy who lives down my road only found out he was born with one kidney at the age of 67 😦 I was telling that to another friend of mine who said his wife was born with 4 kidneys 😧🤪 I thought having 4 kidneys would be better for you, but apparently not 🤷
@@lauradawson7964 Yes fair play mate! However I think what your employer did was only right and proper. They should be applauded for supporting you, but the fact you were impressed speaks volumes about how low your expectations were. This should be a standard response to such a situation. Hope you and your kidney's recipient are doing well.
Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree were Quaker families. They believed their workers needed shorter working days, and a whole 2 days off a week. They built villages for the workers and gave them a sugar and chocolate allowance for nutrition.
That is terrible nutrition, but it's sweet of them nonetheless
@@aceofspoons8382 starving workers are not very productive, their religious "compassion" was driven by profit, as usual.
@@aceofspoons8382to be fair In Victorian times sweets often had toxic chemicals for colouring or flavour.
Sugar and chocolate was the healthy option back then.
@@pomx2900so many employers then didn’t care and didn’t house them. Cadbury didn’t have to do that, but they did.
@@pomx2900 Poor housing and other deprivations are also not good for productivity.
Strange how most employers at the time did not see it that way.
Also strange most US employers still don't.
I think you maybe mapping your own motivations on those of the Quakers.
I would suggest you be more charitable, but that may be a forlorn hope.
I worked in the the NHS for years and any member of staff that showed any sign of being unwell were sent home in case they infected other staff/patients. The longest time off I had, with pay, was for 3 months after an operation.
I do work at an NHS hospital as a contractor, and at the slightest sign of me feeling rough, they send me home, and if it seems serious, they'll even sort me out a sick note for the company I work for.
NHS is fantastic. After 5 years service, 6 months full pay and once that's expended, 6 months half pay. Never had 6 months off, but it's comforting to know that if the worst was to happen, I wouldn't be scraping ends together on SSP.
I work for the NHS with 21 years of service, and I receive 33 days of annual leave plus 8 paid bank holidays. Additionally, I am entitled to full paid sick leave.
Similar in Australia, I work for aus government and had 5 wks paid leave post surgery. They kept asking if I needed more time
We wouldn't have the working rights we have,in the Uk. Without Trade Unions
And the EU. Rights such as paternity leave, and the right to flexible working hours were EU directives rather than won by unions. Thank fuck we still have them since Brexit.
Agree.I worked for an American company in the 80's and they tried to intimidate the workers into not to talking to the union reps,if it wasn't for unions the rats would have us working 24/7 with no holidays or any benefits for our hard work.
@@PeterMoore66Actually the EU adopted the UK workers rights to an extent. Maternity leave was not introduced by the EU. It was around ling before the EU was even formed. Flexible working hours is not a right it's an option.
@watkinsrory I said paternity leave, not maternity.
UK employers are legally bound to consider a request for flexible working hours and can only turn down the request if there is a good business reason to do so. It's not optional.
@PeterMoore66 Yeah, that was around, too. The UK was way ahead of its time as far as worker rights are concerned. Request yes not demand.
My brother in London died suddenly just before Christmas. I drove through the night from northern Scotland to help his partner deal with everything, phoned my friend in HR as I left.
The next day, during the awfulness of everything, the CEO of my company phoned me to say take whatever time you need (paid ofc), we got you. This is common here - we trust people and the return is loyalty.
The irony is that I worked for the UK arm of an American company for 25 years. When I left, I was on 29 days holiday plus the 8 days statuary days (like Easter, Christmas, and other public holidays, etc) giving 37 days holiday. My American colleagues didn't get these benefits.
We don’t have free health insurance in the UK, we don’t need insurance because healthcare is free. Our NHS is available to every UK citizen.
We pay National Insurance a small percentage of our income to pay for it.
@@fayesouthall6604The NHS is funded out of general taxation. The National Insurance deduction pays for your State Pension. This is why you have to have paid it for a certain number of years in order to qualify for the maximum pension rate and as soon as you reach pensionable age, whether you carry on working or not, deductions for NI stop.
@@fayesouthall6604 national insurance pays for the benefits system inclduing state pension normal taxes pay for NHS.
The UK charity I worked for, offered a free health insurance as part of my salary package.
@@savagesnayle301 A proportion of national insurance is reserved for the NHS, but most of the NHS budget comes from general taxation. Paying national insurance qualifies you for a state pension (after 10 years) but pensions are paid from general taxation. Most NI contributions go into the NI pot. Basically NI was a con to get people to willingly pay extra taxes in return for the NHS and other benefits.
I'm American, but I'm married to a Brit and live in England. My husband struggles to use up his vacation time. Almost every year, he's using it up in December. Also, since COVID, when he started working from home, he's still working at home 4 days a week. His employer also paid for his entire work-from-home set up from computers to his chair.
Fun fact: the UK man we can thank for the weekend was Sir IanMcKellen's great-great-great grandfather, Robert Lowe.
Interesting
Who did Robert represent?
@@Isleofskye Workers Rights. He was an activist rather than a politician
@@EmmaHawkins94 Thanks, Emma..
The next time the weekend rolls around, Americans
and you want to thank someone, thank the
labor movement, including labor unions (yes, we have them in the USA too you guys) that
existed in the late 1800s. And thank Henry
Ford, who in the early 19th century recognized that the economy gets
a boost if workers have a couple of days off
each week to purchase goods and enjoy using
them!
Henry Ford....the American.
But whatever makes y'all feel better and believe "America bad". We really aren't that different. Isn't the UK healthcare system going to shit right now?
Ine place I worked (In UK) I was developing a migraine and told them I needed to get home asap before it got too bad that I couldn`t drive. My supervisor told me I had to find someone to do my work before I left. I just looked at him and said "That is YOUR job" and went home.Nothing more was said about it.
I live in Scotland, I work for south Lanarkshire council and I get 35 paid holidays a year and an additional 9 (national holidays) so 44 days in total a year. Plus flexi time and I work from home 3/5 days a week. I work 35 hours a week. In Scotland we have free health care, prescriptions are free, university tuition is free for 5 years to everyone, free school meals to kids, free water, the list goes on. America has a lot to learn.
In the UK; When my father passed away on a Wednesday I was thinking I wont be in until Monday. Its a small company so HR is pretty much the owner and the office manager. The first conversation was met with an immediate "OK you aren't in next week and stop talking to us and go take care of the important stuff"
We can moan a lot. Its either a national sport or practically an art form but I think we take a lot for granted.
Maybe its a case of perspective. An Employee can be a resource to be taken advantage of or an asset to add to your businesses success
agreed. i was honestly given about 2-3 weeks off when my mum passed away.
The American Dream. Built on capitalism to the detriment of the working people. The young Americans need to ignore the dinosaurs who proclaim that “Socialism is evil” and research what it stands for. This video shows how the workforce in the UK is financially protected in a variety of circumstances and this is because of the Welfare System that is built on Socialist principles and paid for by taxpayers, just as the free at the point of service healthcare system (NHS) is. Seriously socialism and capitalism can work side by side very effectively and you need to stop employers from treating their workers as badly as they are treated in 3rd world countries.
I would call it social democratic principles. Market model with a strong wellfare state backbone. Althou these things are eroding now all over Europe. The NHS is in crisis for example
@@reallivebluescat "eroding" or "being eroded"?
There is a difference.
As George Carlin said, "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
Where did socialism work ?
@@retrorambles517 On this thread, he said it works "Side by side with capitalism"... in other words, we are NOT talking communism but social (humain) policies put in place to balance the more rapacious and greedy parts of capitalism. As to where this has worked... The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand would all be counties that have embraced socialism far beyond the USA has managed. And most of those counties have a better healthcare system, less murders, less crime, decent standard of living, freedom of the press and better than avarage scores on human rights. All that is off the top of my head as I have not been to any other places.
Im in the uk i listened to an American rant about a politician called Bernie Sanders lots of horrible names and that he was a communist. I was confused about a politician in the us being an actual communists so looked him up. Its amazing that this guy would be considered almost a central slightly left wing in the uk.
Bernie Sanders' brother lives in England and works in politics with the Green Party.
they should have picked him over hillary , bernie seems like a good guy with his head screwed on.
And England is known in the rest of Europe as a conservative country...
I was explaining US politics to my kids the other day. I said the Democrats are equivalent to our Tory Party (I meant the usual, relatively sane Tory Party, not the weird one we've had in recent years), while the Republicans are Reform.
There is no such thing as Labour, Lib Dems in the US.
In Britain, if you plan holidays around the odd double bank holidays (when there's one on a Friday and a Monday), you can save days and stretch out your holiday!
I do this every year, it's a challenge to maximise leave. My record was 12 days off (including weekends) for 4 days AL, using the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.
I remember one of the royal weddings hit close to easter or spring bank and the extra bank holiday for that let you do something similar, I spent that near fortnight under a car, bliss! @user-bq9rz9fw5x
Same here in Australia. Public holidays don't affect annual leave balance. We aren't called the lucky country for nothing 😊
@@TheFernz911 Is that because of the spiders, snakes and creeping death that's always potentially around the corner.
Under the toilet seat or inside a shoe?
Gotta love it!
@@user-bq9rz9fw5x It's also amazing the difference a single day makes, I work a 40 hour 4 day week (10 hours per day Monday - Thursday), so those mandated 20 days annual leave which is 4 weeks in a standard job is 5 weeks to me, and if I plan each week around a bank holiday, I get 11 consecutive days off for 4 days annual leave entitlement.
I currently have 4 days leave left and i'm booking it the week before August bank holiday to get another bout of 11 days off.
As for Christmas, I get christmas eve, christmas day and boxing day off, if they happen to fall on friday/saturday/sunday I also get the monday to thursday off between boxing day and new years eve.
It's ONLY the "US land of the free" that are free to treat their employees as slaves, politicians are openly bribed (lobbied) , not to act in their constituents best interests.
YAY MERICA. USA USA 😅 you can keep the "greatest" country on earth, I'll stick with Australia thank you .
Me too mate.
Same Same!!
I believe most of us think this about the great U S of A. The American government have done so well at blind folding their citizens into believing it is the greatest country in the world. The rest stand back and say "yeah you sure do, you keep it."
It's like a 3rd world country in places
When my mother died (in the UK) I hadn't really talked about her progressing illness with my manager because it wasn't really relevant to anything and kind of odd to insert into casual conversation. But when she finally passed away he just heard through the grapevine and told me to take off whatever time I needed.
I got a phone call to say that my mum had died during the night whilst I was getting ready for work. I phoned in to say what had happened, then set off to my parents' house (200 miles away). For various reasons it took three weeks before we could have her funeral, but my manager (who was in the US) was OK with it, I worked for a UK branch of a US company. Later in the year my father died and I took another 2 weeks off, HR insisted I should take a holiday to recover.
When my mum died I had 3 weeks off. I was already off with stress because she was dying. I had no problem getting, what turned out to be 3 months off in the end, as sick leave. 2 weeks of that was bereavement leave from work.
Feel for you guys in the US. I get 6 weeks paid holiday a year.. sick leave is separate.. just booked a 3 week holiday in the sun. Work life balance is so important.
Also major benefits was when I had a year off maternity. 6 months paid, rest was statutory maternity pay.
Yup also in the USA 40 hours is always full time. A lot of the time for me my full work week is 32 hours which isnt the norm but I feel like it's much more common in the UK/Europe than the USA.
how did you book 3 consecutive weeks, though? are you in the UK? that's not typical here unless you're taking holidays during christmas and including the xmas period.
@@bluebellbeatnik4945 yeah in the Uk. I work for a large company, hoildays are controlled at team level. We are a team of 15 and the rule of thumb is no more than 3 off at same time (4 for aug) we know when the busy hoilday periods are so we work around that. Yeah 3 weeks isnt average and not something would do every year. Most of us do book at least 2 weeks consecutive in the summer
Also, if you are sick while you are on holiday from work, you can claim that holiday back 😊
Yeah, I love this. A colleague took 2 months off, got sick in week one with some serious illness and got like 6 weeks of holiday back because he was sick during his holiday.
You do need to produce a Doctor's Certificate for the majority of companies to get that though.
Lol, not in a factory you dont
Annoyed I didn’t claim my holiday back a few years ago coz I didn’t know about this 😭
@@OneBiteoftheCherry Yeah, you do, even in a factory.
I had a hospital appointment and dentist appointment on the same working day, I offered to take the day out of my 6.5 weeks holiday allowance and my manager said 'no that's not necessary, just pop out for your appointments when you need to'....In my experience that's typical for UK employers
I had drs app at 11am and I start at 8am but the hospital is in the next road to me, so I would have had to go in for an hour and half and then drive home. Work just told me to come in, so I got a half day 😁
I'm retired now, but while I was working, I got 5 weeks paid holiday each year. I also got my birthday off with pay. And once I had completed 5 years service, I received one more week's paid holiday per year. I also received my full salary when I was sick and unable to work. The charity I worked for took the view that if you turned up for work when you were sick, you could pass your sickness onto someone else....
So if the reasonable amount of compassionate leave given to you by your employer is not enough (grief is different for everyone) then you can be signed off of work by your GP for mental health reasons, changing your compassionate leave into sick leave.
But there are some really good employers out there. Just before Christmas 2015, my Dad was taken into intensive care
However, he lived in France, so I went to France to be with him. He passed away on Jan 6th and (because it is the law in France to have a funeral within a week of the death) it was not until after the funeral that I returned home to the UK. I was off of work for four weeks in total, full pay, no questions asked.
And still most Americans think they live in the best country of the world…
Everyone thinks they live in the best country until they see life in another country and realise they aren’t as great as they think.
A father of a child at my children's school (we are all British ) was telling me that his wife who works for an American company in the UK was being phoned up by her bosses even while she was in Labour! In the end he took the phone from her and when they phoned and he told them to not call the were angry that she haven't answered so he held the phone out just as she screams during a contraction and told them no more calls today try tomorrow and then turned the phone off!
Hey JJ, when I had my Son a few years ago, I had a lot of complications, I had to stop working when I was only 4mths pregnant, I was put on sick leave on full pay until I was 8mths pregnant when I switched to maternity pay, as Evan explained maternity pay over the 52 weeks reduces in stages, if you know you are going to take the full 52 weeks your company can average out you pay entitlement over the entire period and pay you the average amount monthly so that you do have an income for the whole 52 weeks and that it is the same amount each mth.
Once I returned to work, I had accrued my holiday pay over the last 1.5 years that I had been off, which meant that I had enough holiday pay for me to return to work part-time but get paid for full time work for the next 6 mths. On top of this I had many medical appointments due to my complications, all appointments were free, I was on multiple medications which were also free because I was pregnant. I had to have a C section for delivery and sent several days in the hospital in my own room with my son, again no charge for anything, and once I got home my partner was give 2 weeks paid leave to help me with my son while I was healing. The US is screwed and I genuinely feel sorry for all its residents.
America isn't a country, its a corporation. You poor poor worker drones.
I think back to my youth when life in the USA looked so colourful and glamorous compared to impoverished and bombed out Europe. I wanted to be there so much. Now I thank God I never made it across the Atlantic. Apart from the scenery, everything about how your Government and business interests screw over its ordinary working citizens is very, very ugly.
Agreed!
Lol relax. It's still better.
@@shy404usernotfound How?
@@shy404usernotfound NO WAY. Europe is so much more superior in so many ways.
Look are America now, consider the fear, cruelty and hatred of the popularist far right - you couldn't PAY me to live in America.
Sorry to hear you lost your dad JJ. Glad you had a supportive company backing you at the time.
The people of America don't live in a democracy nor do they live in the land of the free. The people of America living in a system called "serfdom", where they are bound to the business or a corporation and a law that tells them what they can do where most of the world lives under laws that tell them what you can't do. I feel sorry for the people of the USA.
Serfdom correct description.
Also here in the UK when on maternity leave you are still entitled to ALL your holiday pay too.
Its REALLY important that Americans understand we don't have "free health insurance". The Hospitals, the Nurses, Drs and Drugs are all provided by the state. The NHS has massive bargaining power when it comes to buying drugs for example and while drug companies do take advantage when the can the insurance system in America is almost like a blank cheque.
I think this belief is why most Americans think that free healthcare is unworkable and would hemorrhage tax money.
If they replace you while on maternity leave and not allowed back, it is against the law
Here in the UK some companies allow us to "carry over" annual leave. For example if I only took 25 days annual leave instead of the given 30: I could carry over the remaining 5 to the next annual leave period. So I had 35. Also some companies use a Flexi leave system. If you work more hours than your 35 hour week you can get paid for those extra hours or add those hours to your annual leave allocation.
It feels like a form of slavery in the USA.
I can’t imagine working under those conditions. I’m Australian, we get sick pay, holiday pay, it was just a normal part of working. I never worked when I married and had children, heaps of voluntary work which I loved, at my children’s school library, kindergarten, local council and a few others. All my girlfriends didn’t work full time when married as our husbands were paid a decent wage to support their families.
Ah, and the unions here in Australia, the ones I knew of made sure workers weren’t ripped off.
WHY can’t America do it like so many other countries?
Sounds like slavery and greed to me - it’s sad - Many countries didn’t realise how lucky we are as it’s just normal to get sick & holiday pay - until we head about Americans. Hopefully one day things will improve in America as that’s no way to live, the stress must be unbearable at times🥲
It became something of a ritual at my last job before retirement, I would be called in to my manager's office every March and told you haven't taken enough days holiday. In 2016, during my first week back to work after a two week holiday, my wife called, she was feeling really unwell, I was sent straight home, unfortunately it proved very serious and needed constant care and passed away two months later, I was told to take all the time I needed, on full pay. Although it was a national company, our depot was only a small one and very tight knit, all my fellow employees were told they could have time off to go to her funeral, in fact they closed the depot for the day everyone came and two of the area managers came too. After a few weeks I had to call my boss and ask him if I could return to work.
Not in the USA obviously.
Quiet Quitting in every other country is called doing what your contract says.
When I worked in Saudi Arabia for a British contractor, one of their American staff went into their office one day. He was coming up to the end of his contract period, and wanted to book his unused "sick days" in his contract as time off. They told him the "feck off" if he wasn't sick.
i live in england and when i was sick i called in and it was no problem because the company have to find someone to cover your job. 5 years ago i blacked out at work and broke my wrist, i was off for 6 months with it and full pay.
Exactly not your fault
You seriously need some strong unions over there.
But that's "communism" according to half of the U.S.
@@LalaDepala_00and maybe socialism by some of the other half
Ooh no, that's socialism ,reds under the bed and all that!! 😂🏴
You mental?
@@petestaley7903 what for? Wanting actual rights?
Here in the UK and most of Europe, the moment you have a child, you can claim child Benefit.
in france legally we have 30 days of paid hollyday a year , plus 11 calendar day (chrismas , bastille day , 1st of may :labor day, 8 of may end of ww2 ......... ) so even in the worse employment you have almost 41 days off a year and for the greif generally in franc we are offered 3 day off
Germans, not nazis! 🤨
I'm glad to see someone else was upset about that.
I was searching for this comment 😮😂
This comment was disgusting. There should be an apology now.
Agree it was a lack of understanding of not all Germans are/were Nazis. Think carefully USA who you vote for in November 24.Someone is going to make things tougher for the average American. Someone is going to support the wealthy.
@@lizliz1817 why it was true he said former nazis which they were
No of these workers rights were given - they were earned through workers action in the past.
Unions are found in all parts of the economy - teachers, doctors, civil servants, transport, construction etc all have unions.
Their membership may be dropping but many of the rights we now have were fought for and earned by union workers fighting for them.
Worth pointing out that the maternity leave pay/protection that Evan showed is the legal minimum. Many large companies will provide more generous maternity/paternity leave packages.
We also get a day in Lieu(essentially a holiday) for working bank holidays. Which there are approximately 8! So it’s entirely possible to get 7 weeks off in the uk.
I really feel for you guys in USA..
I feel fortunate to have good terms and conditions at work, but even here in uk there's lots of people in temp / gig economy who are treated v shabbily. 😢
German and Scandinavian countries seem to have great understanding of the need for rested workforce.
Im shooketh about the US and their vacation days! Ill never complain my 5 and a half weeks are not enough here in the UK
Truth. We most of us non American who have to listen to the frequent "Land of the Free" rants, tend to just smile and giggle a bit. Free to be taken advantage of and abused by your corporate overlords? Retired now, but always valued my paid leave - private sector was a shock (28 to 32 days for me) after leaving the Army - paid leave averaged out at over 10 weeks!
I’ve known for a long time that Britain had better rights than Americans. Speaking to American tourists it was obvious that they were pushed for time. They were either retired, and it didn’t matter, or they were pushed for time and were trying to pack as much into a two week visit that they could. I always used to think how bad they had it. Even if they were well off, their rights were very limited.
Land of the free. Certainly not land of free time.
I just don’t understand the problem the US has with socialist ideals. Free health care, decent paid holidays…
Is it wrong to live a better life?
Also a benefit system that at least tries. Unemployment, child, disability benefits are just a few. Free or subsidised travel for pensioners. Its far from perfect but at least its there). It’s not a bad thing to help.
They don't have a problem with Socialism when it comes to military funding.
Militaries are socialist in the way they are run.
It's very sad to hear that these large firms are sacking employees that are active in unions. That is like Victorian history.
I'm German (and certainly not a Nazi), retired now but i like to tell the story when i still was in the workforce, our group manager called me into his office in August because i still had full six weeks of leave (paid of course) left for the year, and he told me that i had to make holiday plans and inform him within 3 days when i plan to take my time off,
He was a bit pissed because he hadn't organized that at the beginning of the year...
As far as i remember i took 3 weeks in that year and a long X-mas break and the company accepted that i could take 2 weeks over into the next year.
This is another insight as to why the UK is the greatest country in the world. Fact. America when you grow up come and talk to your daddy (UK) on how to treat your workers right. 👀😆😆😆🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
U.K. is better than the U.S.A. but not the best in the world.
@@kevanwillis4571 Yes the UK is the greatest country in the world. Go look at what the British did for the world like transport, democracy, court of law, common law, English language, abolish slavery, all our inventions that better the world in science, health and vaccinations like Covid. The British invented TIME, so when you eat, sleep, wake up, go to work and then go to bed the British have told you by the clock. I could go on and on, but you get my point.. the greatest nation in the world is the UK. Fact. 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
@@kevanwillis4571and the UK is not a country, but four countries United.
28 days as a minimum. Many people have six weeks and then all the extra bank holidays. I think we have more than the US.
Last job I had I had six weeks plus 3 weeks in august as the boss of the company was away with his kids. Plus most Christmas holidays was 2 weeks off which was because the boss went to the Caribbean. So I had 11 weeks off. They also took the staff on a long weekend trip, Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona ( usually in Oct/Nov. Plus every Friday 12.30pm we would decamp to a restaurant, they paid and the drinks flowed and we went home after that. As a non drinker I was usually home by 3pm.
When I worked in The Potteries we had around 6 1/2 weeks + bank holidays- the main summer holiday was called the Potters Fortnight- all the potteries shut down at the same time and you could guarantee that if you went to Spain for your hols you’d see someone you knew from work - I remember being there with my grandparents and my grandad kept bumping into his workmates from the pit- it took us ages to get anywhere 😂😂
I always love your reactions! Others just watch other people's videos, and don't bring anything to the table - they either just sit in silence/give some few noices and/or laugh, and that's it. You actually bring your perspective to it, rather than just replay someone else's video... Appreciate that!
I remember getting told off for not using my holiday days
So no, “USA, USA,” chant on this vid?
A simple, point of psychology; if you treat workers well, they will work happier, so, better and longer. Thus, productivity is likely to go up, not down.
We do not use the brush after EVERY poo. 🤣
The flush normally takes everything down. It's normally used just to clean the bowl. 🙄
But aren't you the GREATEST Country in the world
Ha!
Self inflicted greatness is not the same as actual greatness.
@@LeeKelly-dj4rf Yarp. Bit like the "world series" of baseball... :p
@@LeeKelly-dj4rf Self-professed...
About a month ago, I returned to work after being on an 8 week medical leave (FMLA) I had no PTO either. I did qualify for a short-term disability leave, but it is at 60% pay. It's better than no pay, but it is rough. I'm still playing catch up. Losing 40% of your pay for 2 months is rough. I am lucky to have an employer who actually cares about my health, though, and never once yelled at me for calling off when the illness first started, and I was calling off once a week. I live in the Metro Detroit area. Our PTO is vacation and sick combined. I don't agree with that. Should be sick days AND vacation. I can't take a vacation until I build all that time back up. It is bull shite!
This is why i realized that holidays are such a massive deal in US.
I’m an English lecturer in the UK
I get 46 days holiday plus bank holidays a year. I get paid sick leave and this doesn’t affect my holiday days.
I also got a year of maternity leave for each of my children with 9 months being paid (a mixture of my pay and government pay) and I elected to take the final 3 months off also even though they’re unpaid. I accrued holidays in this time.
My husband got 2 weeks off when our eldest was born but 6 weeks off as law had changed by the time our youngest was born.
I also get access to free healthcare and dental care but I can pay a subsidised fee to get private healthcare (but I’ve never needed it and I’ve had many operations including two babies on our NHS and it’s never steered me wrong)
My grandfather passed away and my mother got 18 months off work to grieve. Paid. Because who puts a time limit on sadness?
I can’t believe this isn’t the norm in America, the power capital of the world, the land of the free… where nothing is free.
The greatest country on earth. lol
Great video 👍 Maybe make the manager sick a lot and see how long the manager gets a replacement.😮
In Australia,we have Long service leave,so after 10 years service you get 3 months off,to take anytime you like.
From Scotland, one job I had the owner/manager gave me a couple of days paid absence when I told him I was having to have my dog put down due to inoperable cancer that had started to make him suffer. Meanwhile another job wouldn't let me finish early to go see my dad who had just had a heart attack and doctors thought he was going to die, I quit on the spot and left anyway. Thankfully, my dad pulled through and lived another 28 years.
I've seen videos of Americans saying how the NHS is socialism, they don't want that. I the UK, labour is a socialist party, it's not communism, they look out for workers interests, not big businesses. They want business to succeed. But not mistreat their employees. I used to get my boss chasing me to take vacation time off at year end, I got 5 weeks a year, my job meant I travelled all over Europe, so I just liked working. USA isnt the best country in the world
😂😂😂😂. Rubbish. Labour is about as socialist as my flip flops. They most certainly do not have workers interests at heart they have their doners interest at heart. You need to open your eyes.
Well said
Home of the free, the brave and the very wealthy who don't give a crap about there employees. hahaha.
There is power in a union! And this is why they matter.
Not all companies have proper full sick pay , it’s pretty rare now
Americans also work more hours on average per week.
Work or attend ?
I feel so sorry for working Americans. You have no human rights. No real health care, little or no sick pay, serious lack of holidays. Capitalism gone mad. Absolute Capitalism is as bad as Absolutism in anything else, it's extremist. America needs to look after Americans the same as Europe look after Europeans. What is the point of living in a country and helping that country, when that country doesn't look after you.
When i worked in an office I had to have an operation that meant i had to have time off work.
For the first 7 days yiu can self certify, which basically means you can phone in work and say "I don't feel good" and they can't ask you to prove it.
After 7 days i still felt awful with bruising and swelling, so i went to the doctor. Straight away he said "Will 4 weeks be enough" and then he thought for a minute and said "oh that would mean you woukd be back at work the week before Christmas so i will nake it 8 to take you into the new year"
Taking proper care of employees is enlightened self-interest. People who go to work while ill spread illness around, people who never go on holiday or take time off get stressed and get sick more often, or end up with serious illness. Happy people work better.
The UK is actually degrading, into a similar state.
America - the greatest country in the world... 😂😂😂
so when i left school in the UK, i moved to the states and worked legally for a few years before returning back to the UK. I remember popping my shoulder out helping a mate fix his buggy. Went to work the next day, arm in a sling. Boss was like "dude just phone in sick. Go home!" Was soo confused by it, thought i had to arrange cover etc.
OK so there is something that he forgot to mention, If during your 28 days vacation time you fell ill, we'll that then counts as sick days, not vacation days, so and you should then make up for the vacation days missed.
I just took last week off work because I felt like having some time to relax.
Unfortunately, 2 people quit, so they were short staffed and needed me to come in 2 days for cover
They ended up paying me double for those shifts, so I was OK with it
We in Europe had that kind of situation like 100 years ago. But we evolved.
In the UK, if you are on holiday and fall ill, you can reclaim that time as a holiday again. So if I go on holiday on the Friday for 2 weeks and break my leg on the Saturday, and am unable to do anything for 6 weeks, I will then be given my 2 weeks holiday back.
It's 28 days but 8 days of that are for bankholidays
My Daughter and Son in law had a baby. 6 months maternity leave and my Daughter had her full wages paid, this is New Zealand and we look after our people 🇳🇿
At my last Job I never used to take typical summer holidays so i used my 30 days to have every Friday off for most of the year, was great.
Some companies offer a lot more holiday as well. My old company did the bare minimum which was 20 days holiday plus 8 days bank holiday. But my new company does 25 days standard holiday, plus a day for your birthday, plus a day in December to go Christmas shopping (though you don’t actually have to use it to go Christmas shopping, it just has to be used in December), plus the 8 bank holidays. So that’s a minimum of 35 days a year. Also if I stay there for 2 years it will go up to 26 days standard holiday and if I stay there for a further year it goes up to 27 days standard holiday. So in 3 years I could have 37 days holiday a year. I don’t know what to do with that much holiday. 😂 There are also a couple other random days you can get off like a moving house day but that can only be used once ever so I can’t just keep moving house every couple of years to get an extra day off haha.
Last week i was feeling awful (fibromyalgia). I went to my boss, and said i know i normally have to give a months notice for holiday. He said go home. I had six days off, to do nothing.
I wouldn't be able to survive in the US.
I live in Canada. I don't remember ever getting less than 4 weeks a year of vacation time. As I progressed to manager title and above my vacation time increased to 7 weeks (some companies had 5 weeks, plus an extra week every 5 years). Sick days were fully paid for short term disability (being ill), which was up to 3 days, after that is was up to the company, but all of the companies I worked for (5 in total), had long term disability plans in place which covered paid 60% of your wages - and they had to hire you back at the end of the sick time in the same or equivalent position.
I work for an American advertising agency in the UK with over 28 days holiday plus the company offers 3 additional days paid leave for mental health and we have all of Christmas off 23rd and back to the work early January.
UK here, one year i had two operations on my hand first one i was off work for 6 weeks recovering (fully paid) second one i was off for 4 weeks (fully paid) after coming back i still had 6 weeks paid holiday to take off that year.
I used to work for the local authority (Council) and when I first started there, compassionate leave was quantified - 1 week for a parent, 2 days for a sibling etc, but this changed, thank goodness, to be at the Manager's discretion. We don't have necessarily 'normal' family situations any longer, and a manager should know their staff well enough to be aware of the impact of a death in the family. I worked with a some young people who were brought up by their grandparents, for example. It seems a more reasonable and compassionate way for good managers to oversee this as each scenario is different. Love your vlog as always