• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I really wish that Americans didn’t lump an entire continent with their own laws, cultures, and customs together.

    Yes, the American attitude towards work sucks, but comparing Germany and the UK is like comparing New York with Kingston…

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      5 minutes ago

      EU has delegated acts mandating that every EU country transfers to local laws the “right to disconnect” with which every company needs to have a policy that prohibits them contacting their employees outside of work time (which ofc includes vacations) … except “in emergencies” (along with communication channel sequence) … which arent super defined but should be along the lines of preventing/avoiding damages in extraordinary situations.

      And that employees can’t be punished for ignoring any communication outside of work hours in any case.

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        3 hours ago

        Haha, the second I wrote it I thought “I bet there’s a Kingston in NY”, right after I was looking at places to rent in NY…

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        3 hours ago

        I highly doubt it, since any European with sense will know that some countries have far different attitudes towards work than others, and complicated relationships between eastern and western Europe in regards to skilled trade work and immigration…