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Re:EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home by cr1895 on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:12PM (#25306395)
>vacation is a luxury, sick days are a necessity.

In many places (Europe, generally?), vacation days are earned. At least in the Netherlands if you were absent for weeks due to illness (for which there is no fixed pool of days), and decided not to take any vacation days, you'd either have some of your vacation days rolled over to the next year or they'd be paid out to you with salary and taxed.

It's not a luxury in the slightest. You'd have earned them just as you earned your wages.

Re:EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home by ciceryadam on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:55AM (#25313889)
How's it in Netherlands in case of long term sickness? In Czech Republic we have the time off accrued based on worked hours. If you are out sick 2 weeks, you don't earn holiday time for these days. So instead of they yearly 25 days off you'll only have 24.

But parental leave is considered as work, so if you come back after your parental leave, you have your full amount.

Re:EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home by cr1895 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:28AM (#25314050)
>In Czech Republic we have the time off accrued based on worked hours.

There's no distinction, at least not with the statutory holidays. You earn them as you earn your wages and there is no adjustment for illness.