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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I think it all depends on the situation. I’m all for an employer giving me time for normal appointments like dentist, doctor, eye doctor etc. even stuff like mechanic to do tire swaps is reasonable if it’s only a couple hours. I even get personal days that I can take in half day increments but usually for 1 or 2 hour absences I’m not even required to use them.
It seems a bit of a stretch to have multiple appointments every month. Who has 24-36 doctor, dentist etc appointments a year?
Even if you have sickly children that is a lot.
I suspect the numbers OP provided are exaggerated or they really are a bad employee. Those numbers are whack.
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The other issue of course is that many industries don’t just compete within Canada, the world is massively increasingly globalized and as such we also need to compete with other countries as well. This part gets forgotten by Canadians because we have the highest standard of living on earth but if Canadians think our current standard of living is sustainable working 10-30 hour weeks we will get blown out of the water competitively by other jurisdictions. That is likely an inevitability based on the current Canadians’ mindset as demonstrated by this thread and likely by people who operate in businesses in industries in a vacuum or not having this competitive tension. It’s nice you can afford to be nice to your people and not have them work. The rest of the world in 95% of places doesn’t operate that way no matter how much you want it to and nobody is going to observe Canada as some bastion of utopia work life balance. They will just blow us out of the water and take our businesses and services instead where they can.
All that happens is Canada loses in such instances. Furthermore, work can be good for a lot of people too, actually.