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A Boring Dystopia
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It's where they make you beg your coworkers for their own sick leave to be transferred to you, or have HR send out an email blast begging employees to donate their own meager PTO to you, instead of the employer granting an appropriate amount of sick or maternity leave to begin with.
How does that even work? How can you transfer sick days? It’s not like you have a fixed amount of days you are allowed to be sick, right.. right?
You generally have a fixed amount of paid sick days per year. Those are what's being transferred.
That’s fucking insane.
Here, if you’re sick you get sick leave. There is no real limit other than after 2 years of illness you basically go on disability instead of sick leave.
What if your illness takes longer than the amount of days you have, you are just expected to show up at the office in your hospital bed?
You are told after a certain amount of time, if you do not return to work full time, you are laid off/fired and lose your health insurance. By law, they have to offer COBRA health insurance coverage to you but that is like 3X the cost of your insurance while employed. At that point, you apply for state funded health insurance (Medicaid) and are still given a work requirement... 80 hrs a month now unless you can prove disability and it takes at least 2 years to qualify for SSD (Social Security Disability). There are some carve outs... like if you have really bad cancer, there is a Medicaid spend down for treatment, or if you are in kidney failure and need regular hemodialysis.
That's kinda sick (in the sense of being twisted and cruel)