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But the GOVERNMENT OVERLORDS are OK? At least we can CHOOSE who to work for and what salary and benefits we will accept. Not so with Government. You're ridiculous if you think allowing government to DICTATE everything in people's lives is smart.
Always someone to blame, never about taking responsibility and control over your own situation.
I've done quite well, having gone into software development. But I recognize that the middle class is shrinking with each generation. And it's not because of upward mobility. The lower class is growing.
But the GOVERNMENT OVERLORDS are OK? At least we can CHOOSE who to work for and what salary and benefits we will accept. Not so with Government. You're ridiculous if you think allowing government to DICTATE everything in people's lives is smart.
I'm not saying government is the answer either, just acknowledging the issue. We've been racing toward a dual income standard with ever more hours. At some point society as a whole will reject that trend. Unionization is starting to make a comeback. As is union-busting, Google recently hired a union busting firm and is illegally firing workers trying to unionize.
I had a coworker in Canada who gave birth several years ago. She took 15 weeks of maternity leave and 35 weeks of parental leave. While on leave, she got pregnant again - another 15 weeks and 35 weeks.
The company paid her salary (or a percentage thereof) for almost two years while she did not work. When the second leave was about to end, she gave notice that she would not return to work.
Nice!
Impossible. You must be missing part of the story.
For her to be eligible to get more paid leave, she would have had to go back to work for another 600 hours of insurable time, after her first paid leave was up. In other words, the paid leave is only paid out to those who have paid into it and must be re-earned to qualify. It comes out of our Employment Insurance which is what you call Unemployment Insurance.
"You have accumulated at least 600 hours of insurable employment during the qualifying period
Hours of insurable employment are the hours you work, for either one or more employers under written or verbal contracts of service, for which you receive wages.
The qualifying period is the shorter of:
the 52-week period immediately before the start date of your EI period; or
the period since the start of a previous EI benefit period, if that benefit period started during the last 52 weeks."
There is a simple answer to this. Who's gonna pay for it?
Most new jobs these days are gigs or temporary jobs. They have no benefits or requirement by companies to offer benefits. Because increasingly companies are refusing to offer employment with benefits. I doubt the government would step in and pay for this, it can open up fraud.
Again AOC, opens her mouth without thinking about the current state of jobs in the country. Companies are shedding workers and hiring temp workers and creating gig economy.
We have a government that only pays for illegals and the poor that don't work. The minute you work a low wage retail job you lose govt benefits. That is why some people rather not work just to stay poor.
In Canada, you the employee does. You pay $1.62 on every $100 you earn up to a maximum of $860.22 for the year. You can used this insurance as " Unemployment Insurance" or as paid Maternity/Paternity leave. Just like unemployment insurance you only get a percentage of your wage.
Works very well and gives young couples or single parents a bit more security.
That chart is intentionally misleading. Although it's not mandated, plenty of companies in the US offer paid leave.
"In March 2018, 17 percent of all civilian workers had access to paid family leave, and 89 percent had access to unpaid family leave. Employers provide family leave for employees to care for family members. This leave includes maternity and paternity leave. The leave also may be available to care for a newborn child, an adopted child, a sick child, or a sick adult relative. Access to family leave varied by establishment size."
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