 TLO what's poppin we are on twitch We are Live so you can come join us if you want if not That's cool. Just leave a like and comment subscribe turn your post notification bells Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK If you do happy to miss a live This is where all the highlights will be if anybody knows how to make shorts and wants to be a part of this channel Contact me. Let me know make some shorts and let's get it uploaded Don't forget we do got the patreon. I just recorded misfits misfits season 4 episode 8 Pretty good And we also got the discord man tomorrow. I'm gonna go live and just do discord I'm gonna go down my discord all day every day. That's what I'm gonna do. I mean tomorrow not all day every day all day tomorrow Have you seen the video with Cameron came To the UK years ago camera. Oh, yeah, I did see that Let's get into this though man basic workers rights British vs. UK. I haven't worked the legitimate job in America in like five or four years I don't so I don't Go to wix.com But I might have to go back to work man. I need some more money So, you know I had to get that back on Grip in the States. I had to show up to work regardless of how sick I was I mean unless I was absolutely dying and even then I had to call around to find replacements Which is why I'm not really surprised about this recent CNN report saying many Americans show up to work very sick regardless of how far along Omicron is now spreading doesn't surprise me in the slightest if you're from any other country and you're like Why the heck are Americans like that? Stripe yourselves right on in today's video. We're gonna be talking a little bit about the differences between US and UK culture in regard That's the thing about me, you know, I'm saying to if I say I'm sick And I'm not coming in I'm not coming in and I'm sick period You're not gonna tell me all find a replacement. No, I'm not the manager. You're the manager you find the replacement I'm sick trying to get my health in order. I don't get paid to find a replacement See and that's why I haven't worked, you know, leaving work and work benefits And if you're new to my channel, hello, my name is Evan and well Wanted to know more about in UK and no matter how sick I was when I was working at a Pizza Hut a food service restaurant I was expected to show up to work or find a replacement Which is something that most people in the UK when I told them this said well, isn't that what the hiring manager is supposed to do? Yeah, I guess that makes a lot of sense. He should be the one kind of balancing Why is it down to the individual employee? Well, it's because when you're sick in the US that is actually your fault You're guilty of this and you need to pay the company back by doing another job and finding someone else to replace That's just the culture whereas because I was brought up Like this my first couple jobs in the UK I showed up incredibly ill during days in which I was sick and was told to go home Which blew my mind. What do you mean? Well, I already showed up I'm coughing all over the place, but I got up at work to do right. No, I was sent home and I could get healthy Well, but one of the most interesting aspects of this whole thing was that I was paid What's crazy is in America you get like I worked at the Marriott. I got like Sick days not paid. I got sick days and I only got like five days So out of a 365 day year, I was only expected to get sick five days For when I was sick, which was the first time I'd ever experienced that and most Americans will tend to agree What happens is when you are ill and you have to ask the boss for the day off because you're sick a lot of times That comes out of Halliday pay Halliday Halliday, you see most UK companies have something in place for this in the inevitable likelihood that an employee is sick If you do get sick for longer than three days The government actually can step in and ensure you get a little bit under a hundred pounds per week plus whatever your employer agrees To give you until you get better, which is a nice little thing to fall upon now in the sad circumstance That's mad mad nice of them, huh? I think I got one paid sick day off. I think one paid in like five Five sick days Limitless was not paid. I could remember that they like very Very very clearly as you are sick for a very long time You can go to get a doctor's note, but as we have nationalized health care that doesn't cost anything on the other hand in the US the land of the free there is no federally mandated sick pay So regardless of if you're sick for one day one week one month You are unpaid for the most part, which isn't really the best situation And especially if you're someone that is living paycheck to paycheck which as of March 2022 is 64% of Americans nearly two out of every three Americans is living paycheck to paycheck I don't really think you can blame someone for going to work when they're ill if Financially, they're just playing the cards that they've been dealt as best as they can also given the fact that a lot of American employers Demand a doctor's note if you are ill for more than one or two and the doctor's note does not excuse you Like I was I had doctors notes and I was still getting like a write-up for that taking X amount of days Bro, I'm sick. What y'all want me to do come get the rest of the employees sick I mean we all have to close the building like what y'all want me to do two days Which is then an entire extra day you need to take off to go to your doctor And if you don't have great insurance for instance when I was working at different retail restaurants and things well That's 75 bucks a session. So now I've lost essentially a day or two's wages Plus I'm freaking ill still and I have to heal It's just not a good situation and the thing about this issue is it's really not political in the slightest In fact, 94% of self-identified liberals and 81% of self-identified conservatives agree That paid sick days should be a basic human worker right But then if such a huge grouping of these two sides that usually wore all the time finally agree on it Why do we not have any change? Well, there's an even bigger percentage of Corporations and employers that really don't give a shit about what you think and well They have a lot of money in this and when you in the corporate world man, no matter what job you've got Unless you like some crazy crazy and even at that you're unless you own a company you're always You're always replaceable And I don't know how people can live with that uncertainty man. Like if I do one thing wrong, I'm gone Like what are you serious? Like like they don't be caring about Yo, you don't care if you got kids. They don't care if you got rent paid to pay they don't not care That's why I couldn't so you got to take your own financial situation into your own heads. Yes, I might have to go back to work Yes, I might need a job For like for a little bit because you know, I'm still trying to adjust the Florida and things of that nature And you know saying not enough people are you know watching commercials for my videos? So it's like But you know, they'd like to keep it that way and so they have successfully lobbied to ensure that no change Has happened does that sound familiar to any other part of the US law almost all of it actually yes It's sad and sadly as is the case in most of these things The people with the largest amount of money have the largest voice in US politics And so can shout down the massive majority of people who just want this basic right so that they can have more money We know a lot of people don't even like like eight and remember y'all seen eight and Ross when he said oh Man, can I even say his name? Doesn't matter remember he said The lowest the lowest the lowest at the average income for America was a hundred K Like is he out of his fucking mind? If I was making $100,000 a year Trust me when I was in Chicago, I made 120 a year and Then I moved to Florida and you know, I'm trying to do something different. So it's like But it's like, you know Which is of course the American dream now given that this is the sad state of affairs Most Americans have found a loophole on how to have paid sick leave and sadly you probably know where this is going Well, it comes out of their holiday pay one of the reasons why Americans don't travel or go on holiday as much as Anyone else in Western civilization? Well, they use them for sick days now regardless of whether or not. Oh, that's what it was That's what it was Okay, so we got sick days I think I got like five sick days, but in order to get them paid. I would have to write in my holiday Not you get paid time off during your next trip abroad or to the local shops today's video sponsor Revolute can actually help you for all things money spending safe massive spending Revolute away this month and excellent exchange rates I need me some paid sponsorships man and no hidden fees and even better Any 20 pound for sponsoring days, but he Americans don't travel as much as many other European counterparts and a lot of Americans will say well It's because the country is so big and there's not many places to visit outside of like Mexico and Canada My But usually as soon as somebody makes this argument Australia enters the chat But it has more to do with the fact that there are no federal protections for holiday pay in the States at all I don't know how many times I've told this story on this channel, but I'll tell it again I worked five years at a Pizza Hut work in 30 hours a week and I earned zero days paid holiday Whereas I worked under 20 hours in London and managed to get two days a month I was blown away with how I was able to earn anything Considering that I'd worked five years and hadn't even gotten a single raise from my two dollars and 13 cents an hour They were paying me somehow legally they didn't have to how was that legal though? Well federally there aren't any laws about holiday pay the government thought it'd be better to just leave that up The employers and as we all know employers always have the best intentions They don't now my state decided to have it so that once you work over a certain amount of time in my case 30 hours You are entitled to some paid holiday However, they made it a step function meaning you have to cross over that threshold of 30 There isn't a gradual increase like say the way we pay taxes And so that's just going to allow capitalistic companies to be capitalistic companies to ensure I never was allowed to work over 33 hours a week Just so they could make sure I averaged out under that and they would never ever have to pay me a single day of paid holiday See I'm so Marriott is a little different man I still I like working up for the Marriott if I go back to work and if I'm forced to go back to work That's the I will go back to them for a part time First of all, I got a lot of experience working a Marriott because of the Marriott I can work any job across the board, you know any job. I'm qualified to work anything because of that But they did stuff a little differently like when it came to pay and I give them that they They gave you holiday days because they didn't give you sick So it was required to work if you were full-time you work 40 hours a week And you got overtime, which is time and a half and you got And you got and you got what's it called you got And you got holiday pay like every I think if you work 40 hours you get Two hours of two or three hours of paid holiday pay perks per 40 hours or something like that And keep in mind when I was working at Marriott. I was making $23 an hour. This was this was this was This was five years ago. I was at Marriott making $23 an hour. That's crazy, right? Five years ago making $23 an hour. Don't forget the state tax is crazy out in Chicago But if I was making $23 right here in Florida What? Yo, I'd be dog. I'll be getting like five bands a month Now not like 4500. That's not that's See that's the type of like I can't I just it was the it wasn't Marriott It was who they had working there like the GM for where I worked. She was a miss She was miserable you could tell she wouldn't get no D at home You can tell her husband was probably cheating on her Like she would come to work and just take it out and just be miserable at work Like I just like go stop coming here like you make it terrible for everybody because that's just trickling down like like You don't think your mood affects your the people that work for you in your day-to-day job Like of course it does you say if you have a manager if you have a manager You're the GM and the managers are running the front desk and you have a talk with them and you and you giving them attitude You don't think they're gonna come give the front desk workers and everybody that works under them attitude like come on, bro Yeah That's just what companies are going to do That shit at home You better come to work with a smile on your face if I had a fake a smile so do you if you let them do that That's the point of government to step in and give people the basic rights that they are entitled I had a friend that worked at Google in the UK and got 30 days of paid holiday moved to the US and Lost half of them because what 15 days? That's quite a lot in the US well in the UK We are mandated to have at least 28 days of paid holiday That's 5.6 weeks of paid holiday including bank holidays if an employer wants to they can give you more than that or less But that's just how it is though to be fair the US Department of Labor has said that 76% of private sector employees got Paid holiday and the average of that was 10 That's tough sub up well as there's no federal law employers don't have to and so they won't even less they're forced to Which is why it's good that in certain states They actually have some states like Vermont for every 52 hours you work You get one hour of paid holiday and for those of you that enjoy math That means that working 40 hours a week in the state of Vermont every single week at the end of the year You earn five days of paid holiday 40 hours Yeah, see it was something like that for Marriott to in Chicago, but I think it was like for 40 hours We just get like oh shit damn really subbed up true Shout out that that's horrible and of those five days if we know that the average American is sick 3.9 days of the year and they don't get paid sick days Well of those five days in Vermont. You've got one left if you've gotten average amount of sickness Congratulations. Where are you gonna go? Dorney park It's a bit far and all of these things together really show how the culture is in terms of when you ask your boss for a day Off in the u.s. And they act as if even though you're fully entitled to it You're hurting them and you are doing them a disservice to take the holiday that you're legally allowed to have in certain states It's just such a weird contract As to countries like germany in which their employers force them to go on holiday because they understand that a Well-rested employee is going to be a better one make better decisions and be happier in general I mean the uk isn't the greatest thing But i'm thankful that we do have those 28 days of paid holidays so that people can take off people can enjoy their lives And not just work every single day of their lives now as a quick asterisk here There are some companies in the u.s. And the uk that both employ this new magical thing called unlimited time off Unlimited paid holiday that sounds like a dream. I was offered a job like this once and that was the I feel like I feel like if that was an option people wouldn't take advantage of it Like people would like they would have to get acclimated to that Like damn, I got unlimited man. I'm gonna take this But eventually they'll be like damn, I got unlimited. I ain't gotta rush it. Let me just slow down and Let me really use these when I graduate out of using the first thing I had a question about I went How does that work unlimited time off? I can just take off and he was like Yeah, you you have unlimited as opposed to like 28 days or 29 you have unlimited So I said so I'm just gonna get hired and then just start going on holiday Well, you do have to make sure that you you work enough like you feel like you've gotten enough done And I was like, well, that's not unlimited then now is it now Truth be told I did go on holiday way more than any other employee But I was a rare case in fact the whole concept of unlimited paid holiday It is found means that people take off less because they don't realize how much they have if you have 28 days And you've spent 14 by the end of the year Sometimes you want to just make sure you spend those final days if it's unlimited You don't actually have an end limit and so most people will spend less So there it is companies give a mental thing you something that looks like it's beautiful. It is a trojan horse It's actually so you take off less classic capitalism now. Obviously sometimes Me I was a partier. I'm taking off. Yeah, I'm not gonna make it today. I'm sorry Um, you know, there's been a there's been a there's been an unaliving in the family I'm just playing and people die Wow, we're getting real dark bereavement leave is something that you would Really expect at the end of the day for both countries to have But they don't the uk does have a law however if you do lose a dependent which I'm thankful Does include things like housemate which the us's does not but if you do lose a dependent in the uk The law states you're to be given a reasonable amount of time off to grief reasonable That that's the law you must be reasonable and it's odd that this type of thing just works in the uk in the law It says be reasonable in the us that's not I don't think that would ever work as much as I don't really feel protected By a clause saying it has to be reasonable in the uk. They do kind of follow through with that most of the time In the us though The only thing we really have is the family and medical leave act which allows for 12 weeks of leave protected Unpaid leave which is good. You can come back to your job at the end of it and ta-da. You've still got it However, there's so many asterisks Revolving around this fmla or my life america act There's a big chance It doesn't even apply to you to get this unpaid leave and you're going to have to work regardless of what you're going through Do you work for a company with fewer than 50 people? Well, congratulations You do not qualify. You have to keep working through your grief Did one of your loved ones wait to pass away until after you got your new job? You're also not entitled to any leave protected unpaid leave Nope, you've got to come to work grieving because you have to stay at the same company for at least a year Before that can happen Which is a reason why I'm assuming most people are afraid to leave jobs because that transitionary period There are so many benefits the government is no longer giving you So if you work for a company with fewer than 50 people or you've reached Yeah, man, that's crazy. I remember my uh, somebody passed away when I was working at the When I was working. I'm telling you and they like I couldn't get the day off I had to call off and for it to be excused. They wanted to see the obituary I'm like damn y'all asking for way too much like that's personal like no You can't have a cop. No Fuck and they ended up like giving it to me, but it was like no y'all asking for way too much Why does it even have to be like this big old? Thing like, you know, I'm saying like why do you need the obituary like no you need proof like who lot like no It's just the know from me like recently switched jobs The fmla just does not apply to you and in fact on the official website for the fmla It states if you know ahead of time that you'll be taking leave for a new child Or a planned medical treatment for yourself or a family member you are required to give your employer 30 days advance notice In the case of planned medical treatment You must try to schedule the medical treatment when it will not unduly disrupt your employer's business So next time you plan on being sick or plan on having someone die or birthed or anything else Make sure it does not inconvenience your employer. That is in the us law And so the difference here being that in the uk Employers are asked to give a reasonable time off to their employees when they're going through grief and in the us Employees are asked to give their employer reasonable time off when the employee is going through grief It's just a country for Perhaps not the have nots the employees have so little protection You have to ask for permission for one of your relatives to die What the fck and the last of the big leaves we're going to be talking about today The big one the elephant in the room no offense to your mother, but maternity leave and paternity leave What was that sick? We've all seen the map before the fact that the us has zero days of paid maternity leave is still Disgusting how it's not protected at all is disgusting in the uk employees can take up to 52 weeks of maternity leave And their jobs are protected for when they come back and of those 52 weeks The first six are paid at 90 of their salary the next 33 are paid at 90 or 156 pounds 66 Whichever is smaller and then the next weeks are actually unpaid But of that period you still have your 52 weeks How many how many weeks are in a year? I feel like that's a whole year like like In in America where I where I worked at least a woman got three weeks So a year So a woman got three weeks. I'm talking about push a baby out push a placenta out Maybe get your booty stitched up and didn't have to be back at work in three weeks With a newborn at the career who's watching the kid like that's crazy And I but they actually did give men leave too though when when the girls had a baby But I think I think it was like a one week or something Your job protected you still have some money coming in and you can take care of your child during the moments in which it Needs you most now when it comes to paternity leave the uk definitely falls flat here Only providing fathers with one to two weeks of paid paternity leave and of that It's that 156 pounds 66 or 90 percent your salary whichever is smaller But it is two weeks that you're allowed to take off and you also get two prenatal appointments before the birth of your child So if you need to take off to check on how the baby's doing and the mom is belly You can do that now when it comes to the us Do you remember that family and medical leave act we were talking about earlier? That's the only thing the us has in place for expectant mothers unpaid leave This means as soon as employees are finished going into labor They need to go back into the labor force because there's no other way of affording to take care of that child There's nothing there to protect them and with just how expensive us hospital bills can be when it comes to having a child there It's no surprise how much oh, shit. Yeah, go back just how expensive you according to data collected by fair health The average cost of having vaginal delivery is between 5000 and 11 000 in most States the number higher in c-section with prices running from 75 to 40 14 50 Yeah, I remember when I had my daughter. I seen the bill. I was damn Who paying this? Can't be me I was y'all got the receipt. No, I'm just playing Oh Man, I think it was I think it was like 16 17 thousand dollars when I had my daughter. I was get the hell out of here I was I'm not who who No, actually, I think it was like 11. I think it was like 11 But there's like, oh, no, don't worry about it. The government take care of it. I was like, uh, it got too shit Well, see I would have been taking care of this bet now. I'll just play I'm just playing man. If you watch this when you get older US hospital bills can be when it comes to having a child there It's no surprise how many reports are coming out of mothers going back to work within a couple days after just having a child in America So wrapping this up. Yeah. Yeah, no cap. Yeah. I've seen women go back in a week sick pay holiday pay bereavement pay And maternity leave are basic workers' rights that people in the uk and around the world get to enjoy Whereas people in the us just don't the only way an american worker can hope to get any of these basic workers' rights Is if by chance their employer just happens to out of the goodness of their heart provided Which doesn't happen very likely Which is why it's good to see that there's a large resurgence in the states of workers unions coming back into fashion starbucks amazon apple Everyone is fed up with the fact that they're not given the rights The government isn't protecting them and so people are demanding they protect themselves Forming unions and demanding the rights they deserve. How long did we have to put up with people clapping their hands for essential workers? And now that covet is for the most part cut and dried We're seeing people go. Oh, well, you're not that essential. No pay raise for you What do you want to get paid more than $15 to flip a burger? Well considering the cost of living has gone up Yes, I think they do it is really horrible that at the end of the day in the us We have to fight for those basic freedoms at the bottom But that's the case when people with a lot of money don't want things to change and I don't think they do Genuine question. Do you think within our lifetime you will see the us government step in and Provide these basic rights that every other country's citizens have had for many years I'd like to be hopeful and say yes, but the way that most american politics is run by money It's looking very doubtful, but regardless of your stance on these different types of leave leave me a comment This is very informal to things that I knew but I didn't know it was you know, I just thought it was me They was harassing like this Ah, man, if I have to go back to work, which I probably do they're gonna hate me Tell a little even like comment subscribe telling her posts to go