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gives you the right to 12 whole fucking unpaid

unpaid

That's not really something to brag about. But poe's law is real, and maybe you're doing a bit?

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"

Unpaid lmao

Unpaid. And, at least in my experience, you have to use up your paid leave before you can start drawing from that unpaid time. That is worlds different from the typical paid time off in Europe.

Edit: I totally missed the satirical tone of your comment the first time I read it.

It's also not technically wrong, its my understanding as someone in the US, a lot of places if you take medical leave, you're required to use up all your vacation and sick leave doing so, before the company let's you start eating into unpaid days or medical leave. So if you have a large medical issue, have a kid, etc, this post is true, you're being forced to use up all your vacation days to have surgery, or birth, and recover.

A statement which, in itself, is a generalization.

• Vacation (Annual Leave) for the EU is minimum 4 weeks (20 paid days) per year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absence_management
• The US has no federal mandate for paid vacation, where the private sector average is about 10 vacation days after one year, plus about 6 paid holidays, totaling around 16 days annually: https://time.com/4227072/job-benefits-united-states/

In addition, some European countries have more, like Sweden’s legal minimum is 25 paid days per year, with a special rule for new employees hired after August 31 granting only 5 days until the next April. Sick days 1–14: Paid by employer at a minimum of 80% of salary, subject to a deduction, and from Day 15 onward: Compensation provided by the state, typically 80% for 364 days, then 75% up to 550 days, with medical certification and administrative reporting required. https://www.e-days.com/holiday-compliance-guide/emea/sweden

Even if what you said were true, the "stupid" Europeans have it better than the US.

Who would read this as some sort of prejudice or attack against Europeans?

If you think this post is a comment about how bad Europeans and the European system is, you may have some mental problems around this issue.

Not sure if this is a serious dumb comment or I'm being wooshed because saying "how stupid Europeans are" is exactly a ridiculous generalization.

Hmm

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/general-employment-terms-conditions/leave-flexible-working/index_en.htm

What are the statutory rights of US workers?

Yeah, only a fool would take the whole summer off. Everything's so expensive when the kids are off school. Couple of weeks in early spring then another couple in autumn, then a week off at Christmas and week somewhere in the winter. Gotta spread the little holiday we get out.