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What handbook?
https://pdfhost.io/v/YuYw8GOm0_LMG_Policy_Handbook
No vacation days in the first 12 months. Then 2 weeks of vacation per year, three weeks after 5 years of consecutive employment.
Damn, I'm happy to live and work in Europe right now, assuming that these are comparable numbers across the North American job landscape.
"Linus Media Group believes that vacation is a necessary opportunity for people to relax, refresh and recharge." LMAO
The rules on sick leave look quite awful as well.
Jesus, I get 5 weeks instantly every year and I can buy more with salary
Yeah insane. Land of the freee
In the US, or somewhere sensible?
Somewhere sensible, with unions and such
Oh, it's worse here in the US. Much worse.
Some people have pointed out, that this seems to be a normal vacation policy within Canada. Still a shitty policy, but I wouldn't put the majority blame on LMG for this specific issue.
They’re entirely to blame for it at LMG.
I highly doubt Canada has a law against doing more than the bare legal minimum.
Why not blame Canada for their shitty laws? If you had a business, you might just be doing the same
Because Linus controls LMG, he can’t change the laws of Canada but he can offer more than he is.
And no I wouldn’t. If I owned a business, I wouldn’t because I’d have made it a worker run co-op. Not everyone is a greedy capitalist parasite.
There's a reason the absolutely majority of businesses isn't run like that, and it's not because all people suck.
Two reasons, actually.
These people (who do not suck) often don't really have what it takes to run a successful business. It's a hard endeavor, especially in the beginning, and often if you don't do the bare minimum, you die.
As you grow, having 10 clashing opinions is a paralyzing disaster for a company. Solution is to have a CEO/owner whatever, one voice to rule, but at that point, is it really that co-op you dream about?
This is the minimum is Canada, but 3-4 week is more common in many industries. So if they could give less, they probably would.
You're literally required to report bullying to management, but apparently the response is someone telling you to stop being such a bitch.
Some of this is very boilerplate handbook wording but I gotta say some of these benefits are very average at best, especially the time off situation. This is from the perspective of a US government worker, where I regularly see my friends get hired in the private sector and receive much better time off.
And at least in southern New England, there's some straight up illegal rules in here, notably discussion of wages. Around here you cannot be ordered by anyone not to disclose what you make.
The time off situation is literally just the bare minimum legal amount in Canada.
I think the policy is pretty weak for such a well-loved (up until this week) company. Guess that's the way the industry works: put up with mediocre pay and benefits because you're "doing what you love," or if I'm feeling really jaded I'd say something like "abusing the workers' passions for the industry."