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Happened to a colleague of mine. She was absent for over a year sick, then came back for reintegration, stayed 3 more years.

Ya you’re right he isn’t purchasing your labor he’s taking you on as a dependent. That’s a fantastic idea and won’t have negative effects at all

Most ppl in the comments are siding with protections for employees, fair play, but imagine actually starting a company, hiring employees, and they get sick like this, or worse, lie. The insurance to cover that risk makes most small businesses untenable. Much better the state supp

Anyone here ever started a small business? Do you think such a policy would be remotely possible to afford? There's a middle ground here of protecting workers from exploitation, and protecting small business owners from the same

That’s not true. The company doesn’t pay that long, they have ensurance for that. But are you really shaming us for taking care of our working people?

In Poland employer pays up to 30 days of sick leave a year. 80% of their wage. If emploee takes more (either few weks or few years) the government starts to pay them, again 80% of their wage.

"Europeans." Tell me you're stupid without telling me you're stupid. It varies from country to country. Germany: - 6 weeks of full salary continuation paid by the employer. - Thereafter, up to 17 months of sickness benefit paid by the statutory health insurance fund (70% of the l

Americans: What is this insane nonsense about protecting workers? I want to be a slave to my employer even if i have to drag my hemotheraphy IV to work with me!

Bullshit. You pay for a sick employee for six weeks max, then health insurance jumps in and pays like 70% of your salary.

German employer here: If you are a small business, you can actually get a large chunk (50-80%) of that money back from the health insurances. So the employer is actually insured against this as well.