Friday, April 7, 2023
Thursday, April 6, 2023
A Fucked Up Bubble
And he would have had the very same moment asking this to an HR rep. from my company here in France.
We froggies might be bashed here and then in the international media, we however have paid sick leave, 5 weeks paid holidays per year (6 weeks in my case due to a bunch of extra working hours) and an all-covering healthcare insurance for as low as 65,75€ per month thanks to my employer who pays for the rest (it was the same at my previous company).
As an anecdote: the generalization of paid holidays is a right that was won for all here since 1936, but it was already effective in Germany and Italy in the early 1900s. Each and every serious study about it demonstrated how both the workers and companies' productivity benefit from them, and therefore the overall economy.
One would argue that us from the 'Old Continent' learned from the past - i.e. the colonial era - and that we figured that treating workers as slaves does definitely no longer fit the times we live in…
I do hope my Americans friends soon get to reach the same goal.
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