if Dilbert is to be believed (the cartoon, not the strip) that’s not true for office drones either. The entire plot of one episode was that people kept coming to work sick (because it was demanded by corporate) and it was so bad that the employees were starting to mutate.
Dilbert even mentions that he and Alice have been passing the same cold back and forth for at LEAST a decade. That episode was from 2000
In France, the difference is more between the civil service and the private sector (apart from Alsace-Moselle, which manages to have its own law where there are no days without pay for sick leave).
And it depends a lot on your illness, your doctor and your professional conscience.
in the civil service, you only have one day without pay (the “jour de carence”) when you’re sick, so losing it isn’t too serious. You can take a week off.
In the private sector*, you get three days without pay, so either you take two weeks off sick when you only need one to be profitable, or you go to work…
* although in the civil service for teachers it’s also better to take two weeks and a day in a row, but not for days of absence, it’s just that the “rectorat” (our school district) is only obliged to look for replacements if the absence is more than two weeks in a row. If the absence is two in two weeks, no substitute teacher…
How prophetic. 2020 all in one strip.
if Dilbert is to be believed (the cartoon, not the strip) that’s not true for office drones either. The entire plot of one episode was that people kept coming to work sick (because it was demanded by corporate) and it was so bad that the employees were starting to mutate.
Dilbert even mentions that he and Alice have been passing the same cold back and forth for at LEAST a decade. That episode was from 2000
In France, the difference is more between the civil service and the private sector (apart from Alsace-Moselle, which manages to have its own law where there are no days without pay for sick leave).
And it depends a lot on your illness, your doctor and your professional conscience.
in the civil service, you only have one day without pay (the “jour de carence”) when you’re sick, so losing it isn’t too serious. You can take a week off.
In the private sector*, you get three days without pay, so either you take two weeks off sick when you only need one to be profitable, or you go to work…
* although in the civil service for teachers it’s also better to take two weeks and a day in a row, but not for days of absence, it’s just that the “rectorat” (our school district) is only obliged to look for replacements if the absence is more than two weeks in a row. If the absence is two in two weeks, no substitute teacher…
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