• NoRezervationz@lemmy.website
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    1 year ago

    Germany has months of parental leave for both parents, and a month’s vacation written into law. So yeah, there’s that…

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      1 year ago

      UK is pretty similar. 21 days annual leave plus BH is standard and 39weeks paid parental leave (plus 13 unpaid) are mandatory and can be split between the couple.

      I’m current coming to the end of 20weeks off fully paid, sometimes I forget how fortunate I am. Can’t believe that some people still see the US as some kind of utopia.