The overall score was determined by factors including minimum wage, sick leave, maternity leave, healthcare availability, public happiness, average working hours, and LGBTQ+ inclusivity.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    a high rate of sick pay (80 percent)

    What does that mean? Is this referring to ACC paying 80% of salary?

    The Australia one says:

    sickness leave is paid at 100 percent of your salary.

    Are these talking about the same thing? I would think normal sick leave is paid at 100% of your salary so I’m curious where the 80% figure comes from.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but ACC isn’t even long term sickness leave. That would be a WINZ benefit e.g. Supported Living Payment.

        ACC is specifically only for accidents. I can find an Australian equivalent to the WINZ support which works pretty much the same, but I can’t find any info about salary replacement for what I think is the ACC equivalent, National Disability Insurance Scheme.

        Anyway, I think we’ve decided there’s no real study behind this “article”, it’s just a company trying to be talked about. There doesn’t actually seem to be a study that we can read, and based on some of the other articles on their site (e.g. this similar one on work-life balance by US state) it’s not very scientific. There’s no source for the data they’ve used, and their choices of what criteria to use are pretty arbitrary.

    • z2k_@lemmy.nzOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I can’t figure it out either. I wonder if they got an intern to do a quick google on each country.