I did learn something about calling in sick in Sweden through all this. There is a "waiting day," a
karensdag, that you don't get paid for. Their sick benefits are quite generous, and this seems a way to slow up people taking advantage of that unfairly. Not a bad strategy, really.
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Swede here. It used to be a way to discourage people calling in sick because of a hangover. But in the future, I think we should get rid of the "karensdag". The most important thing we can do to control Covid, is to strongly encourage people to stay home when they are sick. We also get paid 80% of the salary, to stay home if we can work, but are contagious. That should be 100% of ordinary pay if people have Corona-virus, to encourage testing (wich mobile units from hospitals should do in our homes).
Yes, I heard that Sweden had dropped it for exactly that reason, which makes sense.
Where in Sweden? My people were from little villages near Jonkoping and Gotheberg
I live where we still have a lot of snow on the ground and we already have daylight in the middle of the night.
As my son in Tromso is farther north than all of Sweden, that doesn't shock me as much as you might think.
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