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You DON'T get in trouble for " jaywalking" in the UK because it's called CROSSING THE ROAD !! We are taught how to do it as kids !! How can crossing the road be illegal !?
An allotment is not a community garden. You rent a piece of land from the local council and you can grow fruit and vegetables there.
So much for freedom.
its one of those laws like loitering that was made as an excuse to arrest undesirables
Given the combative way Americans drive, I think a jaywalking prohibition is probably sensible.
Things like jaywalking in America was introduced way back because all police have an arrest quota and before now there weren’t enough arrests so it and several other stupid laws was introduced for American police to make there quoters and unfortunately they never went away
@@the5thson Undesirable pedestrians? Lol.
She said that Brits wouldn't be able to name all the States of the USA. Hardly a fair comparison when there are 50 states compared with 4 countries which make up the UK! However, I think you would find that a lot of Brits could name most of the American states. Her friend doesn't seem to know much about her own country, let alone the UK!
Agreed! I could name 20 states without thinking!!
I'm British and could name all 50 of them easily. As well as Puerto Rico and Hawaii
Same, I was obsessed with the US as a teen and I am sure that I could name at least forty.
Asking a UK person to name all 50 stated would be more equivalent to asking an american to name all 48 counties. Asking them to name the countries of the UK is like asking as UK person to name the countries of North America.
@@cultfiction3865- Hawaii is a state!
Now retired, but as a past employer of 50 staff in the UK the last thing I wanted was for a sick member of staff with flu or COVID to come into work knowing that, and give it to the rest of the staff and myself, and our customers and clients. It could potentially bring the company to a halt. So as well as a fair sick leave policy being good for employees ( giving them support and less stress), it also makes perfect sense for the company. We had a comprehensive sick leave policy which was fair to all but could identify those who were malingering through the need for “return to work “ interviews, doctors notes etc. I have to admit that over 20 years I can only think of 2 people who tried to abuse sick leave, the vast majority of staff didn’t. A successful company works with trust on both the employer and employee side.
Mutual trust between employer and employee, so it seems, only exists in the UK. Certainly not so in the US.
Well said Johnny.
An allotment is not a community garden. You pay a small fee to use one strip of land.
I hate to think what my 13hr emergency open heart surgery last year would have cost in the US, plus 12 days in hospital. Or my wife's hysterectomy 13 years ago, or her hip replacement 2 years ago.
She also has a blood condition, the medication for this would cost £30k each year .
Thank goodness for the NHS.
Although we both paid our National insurance for over 45 years.
What does paying national insurance for 45 years have to do with the topic of healthcare? Wait, you don't think NI contributes to healthcare do you? Please tell me you don't think this?
NI contributions fund things like your state pension, unemployment benefits like New Style Jobseekers Allowance, contribution based employment and support allowance as well as maternity allowance.
The NHS is funded through income tax as well as general taxation like VAT.
It's shocking how many people have no clue what their taxes fund!
@@mojojojo11811 OK, won't argue. How about paying taxes for 45 years? Oh, I forgot; we're still paying taxes well into our seventies.
Similar here, I've had neck surgery twice to have a total of 3 discs removed and so many other treatments I couldn't even begin to list them all, I pre-pay for my prescriptions which costs £11 a month and saves me nearly £1,000 a year in individual prescription costs. I'd have been completely stuffed living in the US. My wife's on injections that cost the NHS over £1k a month for arthritis....we're so fortunate here
It’s all relative - poor quality food = poor health.
Cost of living is high in uk but STILL far lower than in the USA
- I always assumed EVERYTHING was cheaper in the us because it’s a far larger market, companies can buy products in bulk for cheaper but at the till I am shocked to see that most things are actually more expensive in the states.
Even food - even crappy cheap processed food in the USA is more expensive than good nutritious food in the uk - after a lifetime of wishing I lived in the USA but after living there for a years I left pretty darn quickly when I realised how unequal and uncaring the big society is about the poor .
I am now SO GRATEFUL and appreciative to be a Brit living in the uk today / it’s far from perfect but a damn sight better than the rest.
Brits also don’t have to worry about deductibles or being held to ransome by immoral pharmacy companies or corrupt hospitals - oh you touched your own baby? I want my cut of that - $100 added to the bill (!)
Individually paying for meds and healthcare?! - everyone loses that way. In the USA you have private and public schools. The public schools don’t threaten the private ones - the two systems mean EVERYONE gets an education if they want it.
Yet brainwashed suspicious Americans scream “socialist conumizzzzm!” At the thought of our nhs - which keeps more average Brits healthy and alive for longer than the average American.
We have private and free healthcare - the public healthcare is as good ast the private healthcare usually because it’s the same doctors from the same universities - but on the nhs you’ll have to wait longer, and that’s a fact of life.
but that’s still preferable to getting it NEVER (!)
how is that so difficult to understand?
The amount of second hand embarrassment I feel for the usa when I see Americans with good jobs - teachers etc on gofundme pages begging for money from strangers so that they can have operations that will make their lives worth living without becoming bankrupt.
If you ever get a universal nhs of your own - when you do have it and look back at the humiliating demeaning things your own people had to do just to be able to live a life free from pain or worry / it’ll be Americas second greatest shame after slavery.
That’s not acceptable in the richest nation on earth - you give education for free but not healthcare?
So your people are good enough to teach to read so that they can perform mundane low paid jobs and manual work but if they get injured they’re not valued enough to be given a universal healthcare free from confusing contracts about all that nasty deductible nonsense?
America isn’t a classless society - it’s class-less , vulgar and unfair, nor is it gods land of the free
Americans are more class divided than the Brits. Last month the kings sister princess Ann spent a week amongst us common riffraff at her local nhs hospital
In the usa the rich are the aristocracy and everyone else can go jump - horrible.
Give me the nhs and lower wages over the American nightmare ANYDAY (!)
Because now - everyone who isn’t rich in America is still a slave who’s life is worth nothing when no one is going to foot the bill for their operation.
Excellent points, very well reasoned.
It's concerning that this girl thinks she's only paying a 5% sales tax, sure her STATE might have 0% income tax but she's still paying FEDERAL tax, and social security, and property tax (until you die), medical insurance, then there's state and federal levies on gas, oil etc.
Exactly... Yanks...
The allotment was originally used where the houses didn’t have space for an outside garden in their own home, for example in built up areas or cities.
First 5 days of being sick can be self-certified, but if you’re sick you more than 5 days in a stretch, your employer can ask you for a sick note from your doctor.
In the industry that I work in it's the first seven days that can be self certificated, then you need a Doctors note. If We are on long term sick, we get 6 months full pay and then 6 months half pay.
It is 7 days whether they are working days or not. So if you just work one day a week you have to have a fit note for your second day sick.
But if you work Monday to Friday then it’s still 7 days but five of them are working days
But you have to get into see your GP first,probably take more than a week
@@stephenstill1890 I have never had a problem at my practice to be fair and they do online consultations for minor things but I hear what you say. I know friends that just can't get an appointment for two weeks, I am lucky in my place of work as they take it into account, we also have a very strong union so there is never a problem, so long as you do produce a sicknote.
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Jaywalking was coined in the US over a hundred years ago. It comes from the fact that “Jay” used to be a generic term for someone who was an idiot, dull, unsophisticated, poor, hick or a simpleton. I guess we are too sophisticated in the UK, lol.
Hi Joel greetings from England 🇬🇧 The NHS Mantra is Free At The Point Of Use From The Cradle To The Grave.
Yes. It is the same for all emergency services but healthcare covers absolutely everything. Even dentistry is subsidised.
I used to work in a job which I hated, and I would call in sick with food poisoning.
I did it that much they asked me if I wanted cooking classes. 🤣🤣
That's hilarious! I majorly overslept one morning and phoned in sick, my manager didn't believe me and insisted on a sick note (which in hindsight was out of order...) so I went to my doctor who checked me over and said 'you have tonsilitis'. I felt fine....The following morning I could barely lift my head off the pillow - karma I guess!!
Hi Joel. Actually, you can earn £12,500 before you start to pay tax. Even then, tax is only paid on earnings OVER that 12.5k. For example, if you earn £20,000, you would pay tax on £7,500.
Its the same in the usa, they have federal income tax which is in addiction to state tax that they all have to pay, even if they move country they cant escape federal income taxes without renouncing citizenship. Their brackets are 11% tax at $11,000 and their second bracket is 22%. So most of them probably pay 11% to 22% tax off the rip federally before any state taxes and many many other random bills and taxes americans have to pay unique to their location all while having no public transport so they have to pay for a car, they also have to pay on average $700 a month YES THIS IS AVERAGE for health insurance and this $700 a month DOESNT cover all bills, they still have to pay co-pay and hope to find a doctor that accepts their insruance.
Yes, but now that tax threshold has been frozen until 2028 (credible rumours say it will soon be extended "til 2029). This effectively means we're all paying more income tax by the rate of inflation year on year. It is also drawing many more people into paying tax at the lower income end, and a lot of ordinary workers into the higher (40%) tax band.
UK here. In 2012 I had 3 weeks of my 5 weeks holidays booked for June. In may I had a heart attack and was off work for 3 months. I got full pay. When I got back to work I was there 1 week then took those 3 weeks holidays. You can't be on holiday when you're off sick. So 3 months then 3 weeks on full pay. Brilliant
Not everyone gets full pay when off sick. It is down to the company what their policy is. Most will only pay you statutory sick pay which is about £95 a week.
I attended junior prep school in England (aged 8-13) and got 100 percent on naming the 50 states after they increased from 48 whilst I was there. I think most A-level geography students in the UK could do that too. Last Christmas, during our annual online family quiz, the geography geeks among my grandsons got 45 and 44 of them. They were then 13 year olds at school in BC and Queensland, respectively. Foreign kids know a hundred times as much about the US (and the world in general) than do average US kids of their age know about anywhere outside the US.
Absolutely agree. I was > age 11 educated in a good English Grammar School (1954 - 1959) and could name All US states and their Capitol Cities at age 12. It is sad that foreign kids know 100x as much about the USA as US kids know about their own country. My apologies for poor grammatical / sentential construction, my higher cognitive processes are slowing as I am aged 83 and also medically blind.
I got 6 months paternity leave full pay when we had our 2nd child, my wife also had 6 months full pay maternity leave then 3 months statutory maternity pay then 3 months no pay and then went back to work after 12 months!
After a few days, a doctor has to to verify that you are too sick to work.
Not necessarily
@@oufc90 So how long can you be sick for, before your GP has to sign you off?
@@79BlackRoseUsually 5-7 days
@@MikeWilsonBarrett Thanks Mike, that is what I thought. I am not sure why @oufc90 said "Not necessarily".
@@79BlackRose Not necessarily simply because a LOT of companies will actually take your word for it. I'm old now, aged 82, but I've worked both sides of the pond and our two countries are so different in so many respects I certainly couldn't see why Americans think they're free or have it good when they are more akin to being blackmailed financial slaves to their corporate system. Take the time off and you're fired seemed to be the corporate system to deal with a worker phoning in sick. BTW, US food is BAD!
Pedestrians have the right of way on all roads except motorways.
And rights of way in the countryside as well. Is it called rambling rights or something?
Most people living in houses have back gardens that are mainly lawned with flower beds and sometimes trees.
Flats may have community gardens which are communal spaces.
Allotments are plots of land, usually rented, where people grow their own produce.
I used to live in a house with a garden which backed onto a huge plot of land which was used as allotments. We could walk out our back garden gate to attend to growing our own vegetables.
I was quite surprised quite how many people have access to a private garden space. It seems to vary quite a bit depending on age, social and racial demographics.
I know that a lot of the houses that I've lived in have only had a tiny yard at the side of the house and my current flat, which I moved into just before lockdown, has zero outdoor space, not even communal.
Having an allotment is not always fun. A lot have very bizarre rules about what you can do or grow, and how quickly. Some have very few rules, and do nothing when other allotmetn holders steal tools or plants straight from your plot. We had one a few years ago, and we had tools stolen from our shed by the woman on the plot next to us, then she sent her eldery father to threaten me - and other plot holders allowed their dogs to run loose and defecate all over other people's plots. When we complained, we were ignored, so we gave up the plot.
@@amandag5072 Yes I absolutely agree. I know people that currently have allotments and they’ve complained about similar things. They’re not for the faint hearted. Luckily I gave mine up in 1987 when I moved. So it’s been years since I had one. Also a lot depends on where you live and the committees that run them.
Definitely not all fairies and unicorns!
Usually you would need a certificate from the doctor if you have been absent from work over 7 days. If your absence follows a pattern (like every Monday), you would be asked questions. It depends how big the company is.
We have a very large garden, but we also have a share of an allotment with my brother. And today we’ve just picked new potatoes, carrots, salad, things, green beans, butter beans. Sadly, the asparagus season has finished
Many companies have a managing for attendance policy.
So if you are always sick when your footy team is playing they will notice and it can be used as part of discipline.
Also, Joel, one other point she should have asked her friend when talking about taxes - as an employee of a company, did she need to use a private accountant just to fill her tax forms about what she may need to pay annually? Remember, here in the UK as an employee, we use the P.A.Y.E system, the employer/company handles the paperwork to pay our various taxes - meaning what we get paid weekly, fortnightly, or monthly (depending how you are paid - is then what you know you have left to spend or use each time . . . no worries about having to save money to pay any annual taxes to the Gov . . . Although it doesn't work that way for any self-employed person, or company owner, as they have to do their own books/taxes, with more work involved - or perhaps use an accountant or hire one if they have any employees in their business as well . . .
She had to be told the fourth UK country and then said, I bet you (the viewer) cannot name the American states. First, they are states, not countries. And there are 50 of them. So this is not a reasonable question of similar information. So stupid!
yes exactly, and most could probably name almost half of them still, even while drunk.
There’s no need to be so harsh. Maybe they were being facetious
Our Counties would be an alternative
@@CHRISDORRELL yes but only for England would be a perfect match, quite unfair the opposite way if you say all counties in the UK
I am English and went to school during WWII and a few years beyond it and we got a damned good education. In grammar school we were expected to know all US states and their capitol cities. We knew as much about other countries in the world as we did about the UK. But that was then. The quality of education in most western countries has fallen during the last 70 years but back then we all wanted to be educated, and I lived in a small mining village / town called Washington in N E England where George Washington's ancestors lived, in Washington Old Hall in County Durham (now Tyne and Wear). Gen Z can only read a digital watch it seems and have little to no interest in the history of the world, or anything else that doesn't carry the suffix .mp3 - it's a blanket statement joke, but it contains a good degree of truth from my own experience.
In December 1992 I was hit by a drunk driver. I lost my left leg, broken jaw, fractured skull, eight broken ribs and a fractured pelvis, fractured cheekbone.
I was in hospital for two months.
Cost was zero.
I got a huge insurance payment as well as compensation from the government.
I wonder how much it would cost in the US. Probably half a million.
8 bank hols are not part of your annual leave..they are additional.
So by late spring you have NY day 1
Easter mon 1. Spring bank 1
So take a week off from your allowance and add on 3 bank hol with your weekend
So 10 days off.. with pay..
There are differences in bank hol pay..
If you actually worked it or just had that day off..
9 bank holidays in Scotland
the other thing about taxes - in the UK if you are an Employee your employer does all your tax returns for you - most people will never have contact with HMRC (Govt. tax collectors)
Yup. I'm retired now but I've only once had to submit a tax return; that was when my father died, I sold his house and then had to pay Capital Gains Tax on the 50% of it that I inherited when my mother died as I had my own house which was my residence. The following year they agreed that they wouldn't need any more tax returns as that was a one off and my tax was taken off my salary by my employer through PAYE (Pay As You Earn).
There are 4 countries. Scotland. England. Wales and Northern Ireland this is split into 92 counties. There are currently 76 recognised cities (including 31 lord mayoralties or lord provostships) in the UK: 52 cities (23 lord mayoralties) in England, six cities (two lord mayoralties) in Wales, seven cities (four lord provostships) in Scotland and five cities (two lord mayoralties) in Northern Ireland. Over 5,000 towns are recognised In the UK and over 6,600 villages.
In the UK 27 years ago it was 12 weeks maternity too. It was appalling.
If I’m off sick, while on annual leave, our HR department will tell us to cancel those leave days to claim those days back and use the sick time. We also get more
separate days off for ‘compassionate leave’ if a friend or relative dies.. and more days available if you want to volunteer at one of the charities our company supports. After 10 years working at the same place, I got an additional 5 days off.
Most workplaces have their own absence policy for sickness. For instance with mine you're allowed 3 periods of sickness a year before you reach stage one, you then have a meeting to discuss your absences and then it resets. If you have three more periods of absence within the 12 months, you get stage 2 which involves another meeting and it resets again. If you have 3 more then you have Stage 3 which can lead to getting fired.
I'm back next week for a check up after pelvis surgery. It's roughly 2 hours away and transport (ambulance with bed/stretcher) has been booked as I can't walk yet.
Obviously I won't be receiving a bill 😉
The whole thing from the beginning including ambulances, medication, scans, X-rays and of course the surgery has been free.
In the UK your personal tax allowance is £12,570 (until you earn this, you don't pay tax). Anything AFTER this figure, you pay 20% (up to £50,270). Obviously other factors can affect what you pay or get allowances for... children etc. but that is the basic 'single person' tax. 😊
There are different tax rates in Scotland. Starting rate is 19%
So it's worth noting that whilst your employer cannot legally limit your sick days, the situation is more complicated than that.
1. You have a maximum amount of days you can be off sick before you need a doctors note.
2. Your employer stops paying you for your sick days after a certain point and at that point you move to Statutory Sick Pay, which is paid by the Government and is not a whole lot of money.
3. Most places will put you on some kind of formal or informal "targets" if you are sick too much, the impact of that will vary from being unable to qualify for a payrise or bonus or some form of benefit the employer offers, through to losing your job. This is really only if you have a lot of sickness that doesn't have a doctor's note - you won't get fired for having a serious medical condition or anything.
In the US the number of weeks paid maternity leave is zero! In the UK it is 39 weeks, the first six weeks 90% of their weekly pay, the next 33 weeks either 90% or £184 a week whichever is lower.
There are generally limits to sick leave, but it varies from employer to employer. So for example you may be reduced to half pay after six months.
Most only get Statutory Sick Pay,
And no they don't know how taxes work 🙄
No an allotment isn’t a community garden, each allotment owner pays a rent for a year a time, it’s normally rented from the local council. And you can grow what you want in it, then every year the owners will have a stall where you can buy the fresh vegetables and flowers which are grown on their allotment.
That was misleading about the income tax as you don't pay 20% of your income. There is a threshold before which you pay no tax.
She said if you earn below (x) you don’t pay tax. but it’s not how it works, the initial threshold (personal allowance) is not taxed, it’s 20% of money earnt over that amount.
Not only will being off sick not affect your holidays, if you are sick on holiday you can claim those days back.
The allotment is a story on its own , the main objective was to grow fresh vegetables. In some cases chickens were kept for fresh eggs some even had pigs that were owned by a co-op of people for the pork. Many men used it as an escape once the planting was done a little maintenance then sit down and have a drink , beer , and in my father's case a drag on the pipe. They're very popular again now mainly due to inflation and food prices,but also the trend in organic food and knowing where your food came from.
When I broke my arm skateboarding, the ambulance ride was $5,000 for 3 miles......My "insurance" paid for 20% of it....IDK y because I have like the (supposedly) best insurance comp. in the USA).....But this was 3 years ago, and I no longer support big-pharma...with my money.
@itsjpsyt hi. I know you're a scammer. So get off line while it's good for you.
I was off work for 1 1/2 years (3 operations) starting 2006 - 2008. When I went back to work (a firm is not allowed to fire you if you are off sick). I had a total of 69 vacation days which I had to use. 9 days from 2006, 30 days from 2007 and 30 days from 2008. To get rid of the excess days I worked for 1 week and was sent on vacation for 3 weeks (15 days), came back for 2 weeks and then sent again for 4 weeks (20 days) which left 34 days for summer vacation 2008.
The way my boss used to tell us not to come to work when ill cause he'd rather have just one off than everyone 😂😂
Allotment aren't really a community place. People have gardens and Allotments, generally they grow veg or keep chickens.
I've found that the community aspect has been very strong in the allotments I've had. Lots of annual events, BBQs, competitions, open days etc. Lots also have a community section too, where those without their own plot can get involved. Obviously it's not the same across the board, but I feel like there's been a bit of a shift over the years.
@JamesLMason maybe but it's not a community garden as they were describing.
@@jpw6893 No, I'd agree with that.
in uk, the majority of employment is not paid sick time. But if you dont have paid sick leave and you are off for more than 3 days the government pays you statutory sick pay. Which is £116.75 per week until you go back to work
Allotments are rented usually from the council for growing fruit and vegetables and usually once a year they have an open day and sell off excess produce
I get all weekends off, 30 days annual leave, all bank holidays, the kings birthday, any hours worked over I can bank, build-up and take as leave, and 6 months sickness absence (never had to used the last one 🤞🏻) I really feel for you guys in the USA, you really do have such a raw deal with holidays, health service and lack of income taxes towards infrastructure.
I was looking into ambulance costs a few months ago and apparently it costs the NHS approximately £500 a ride on average
I have an allotment, it's brilliant!! I pay £10 a year for it and my wife grows veg and flowers and I have a small orchard. We also have a nice garden but no room for the veg or orchard. Anyone can have one but in some places there are waiting lists.
Most companies in the UK won't let you use your holidays as sick leave.
When I worked for Barclays 20 years ago or so I, unfortunately, was off ill for 2 protracted periods about 5 years apart.
With the first I had a day off feeling unwell and told my boss that I would go to my GP the following day if I felt the same, which I did. I was signed off by my GP as I was so ill (I had gone hoping that I wasn't wasting her time). She actually said that if my breathing had not improved in a couple of days I needed to be admitted to hospital. In total I was signed off for 6 weeks and during that time my boss called me to see how I was and if there was anything that I needed.
During the last week I went and stayed with my brother and his wife (I live alone) and on the day that I went home I told them that I was going back to work the next day. My sister in law told me that I wasn't fit enough to do so but I did anyway. After 3 days at work I was off for another fortnight!
The second was similar except that I was off for longer and had a couple of visits by my boss at a local cafe to talk things through. My return to work was staged so that I went back part time and slowly built up my hours over a month or so to full time.
My dedication to my work was well known so they knew that I wasn't pulling a fast one. On top of this the office was a bit like a family and we all looked after and cared about one another and the bank did care about the health and welfare of its staff.
Furthermore, I received full pay on both occasions and everything medicalwise was free apart from the prescriptions.
Most employers have a point with sickness absence when they will start to question it, this only short self-certified absences. A long-term illness with a doctor's letter can be unlimited. My employer has a threshold of eight but I have a condition which will cause more so I have an agreement that we will look at it if it reaches 30 in a rolling year. I have some disabilities which means I have more medical appointments than most people. E.g. I’ve just spent two days/one night in hospital this is disability leave, it is a separate type of paid leave. All my medical appointments are part of that. Allowed six weeks of that a year. I am a public sector worker and my condition got worse whilst I have been employed there. Would struggle to hold a job in the private sector.
Absolute minimum of leave is 20 days plus public holidays, some places say 28 days because you can be required to work on some public holidays, some shops are open on all public holidays (but you may struggle to find one on Christmas Day or Easter Monday (large stores cannot open by law on those two days). Most places give more than that. 30 or 35 days is not that uncommon. I get 32 a year (plus public holidays) but can carry over up to 10 each year. I have other friends who get more.
Hi Joel
Every employer varies, but I work for the NHS and they allow up to 4 or 5 sickness episodes before you will then be called to a first formal, which is basically a meeting with your manager and somebody from HR who will then try to understand why you have been off sick so much and whether there is anything they can do as a company to support you back at work and make things a little easier. Here in the UK if your sick, your sick. And yea, people do take advantage out of it all the time. But that’s why the 4 sick occasions (doesn’t have to be a day, you could be off months and it would still be one occasion) allowance a year is used, to try and whittle out who is really sick and who is playing the system. After the first meeting if you are sick anymore in the year, it goes to a second, which runs just like the first, but if you are sick again without appropriate reasons or grounds after that, then it’s disciplinary action. So there is a system for dealing with people who take the piss out of the system. I hope that helps! Love your videos, come back to the UK soon, if your ever in Somerset, I’ll happily show you around :)
Also, annual leave and sick leave is completely separate. We also get sick pay when we are off for sickness, but that again varies company by company
it actually depends on where you work when it comes to "vacation days", my job has 27 days standard with
So, in the UK You get 7 days self certified (including weekends, and days off) but after that point you need FIT note from a doctor to verify you're unfit for work. An employer legally has to pay you Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for 28 weeks after which point you would have to claim Benefits such as Universal Credit. Some employers may top up you SSP, for example NHS will ensure you have full wages for 6 months I believe. However, after a certian amount of time they can force you to use some of your holiday days.
However, they can also refer you for an occupational health assessment, which is a personal, usually a nurse, who you will visit or call you, ask you question about your sickness etc and find out if any can be done to get you back into work etc ie going back part time for so long for example. After a set amount of time if your not clear on when you can return they are legally allowed to terminate your contract.
On the issue of maternity leave, you are also guaranteed to be able to go back to your old job on the same conditions. You CANNOT be fired for being on maternity leave......
In the UK if you come into the office with the cold or the flu you are told to go home because you will end up giving it to others. If you are going to be sick for 7 days or more you must get a note from your Doctor (it is called a "sick" note) confirming you are unable to work and you will be entitled to this on full pay. If your Doctor confirms you will be off work for a long period of time your company must pay you SSP (Statutory Sick Pay) for up to 28 weeks put not on full pay, I think it about £470ish per month. The amount of paid holidays of 28 (20 mandatory plus 8 bank holidays) days is indeed correct but your employer for the needs of the business can ask you to work on a bank holiday but you will be able to take that day at another time when the business is less busy.
An Allotment Joel ... Do you remember "One Foot In The Grave" where Eric Idle guest stars? when Victor buys some manure only to discover its could be radioactive from Chernobyl Well that large garden is a Allotment yes its a kind of community garden the local district council sets aside land for folks to grow their own vegetables and if their allowed raise chickens..
With my job In southwest UK. You can have 5 days sick leave (unpaid & without needing proof of illness). But if it’s more than 5 days you need a sick note from the doctor + can start receiving sick pay.
No one can get near a GP now
How would you be able to get a sign off note to give to your employer now after you have taken up the self cert days
What’s our Government going to do for the genuine people that don’t abuse the system
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Most people in the UK don't take advantage too much. It's not a novelty, so we don't see it in the same way
I can name quite a few states I was brought up on American westerns I’m in my 60s I think most Brits can name at least 10 states . You have to pay for an ambulance if your in a car crash in the UK but your car insurance will usually pay for it.
Allotments are specifically for growing flowers or vegetables, not like a community garden.
The income tax in England starts after the 11000 pounds. So the 8000 would be taxed at 20 percent and not the whole 20000( example)
A work colleague today has just gone off on paternity leave. That’s four months off fully paid! 😮
Hi! I am from Sweden. If you are sick/ill ”suspiciously” many times you are requierd to have a medical certificate every time you stay home. That’s how we do. But we get 80% of our salary if we are home with our sick/ill child. And we don’t have maternaty leave, but parental leave. You can share the 16 months between you. So many fathers stay at home when the child is a toddler. Because we think the fathers are important to the child aswell.
Thank you for fin videos.
Taxes when you add on medical insurance, Americans buy more than we do in the UK
Allotments came about during wartime so that people could grow their own vegetables and to an extent are still used for that.
What countries have allotment gardens? We have them in Sweden. They often come with tiny cute houses. They are popular in the cities.
That 20% tax pays for NHS, Education, Police, Military, road maintenance etc.
And pension iirc
@@John-jw8rx In theory National Insurance is your state pension contribution ( a separate tax paid by all employed people). You even get a letter when you reach retirement age saying that you will only get the pension if you have paid enough years of NI contributions.However, iIn practice, the money is all put into the same government spending pot)
@@thomassharmer7127 plus you still get a pension if you haven't paid in. Just like the NHS.
Basically one big pot.
@@John-jw8rx Not true! You need 39 qualifying years of contributions to get the full New State Pension. If not, then you get a reduced pension, but even that needs at least 10 years of qualifying contributions. Whatever they do with the money behind the scenes, state pension payments are very much tied to paying National Insurance during your working life.
@@thomassharmer7127 Unfortunately that's not correct. If you never work a day in your life you will still get a pension.
My granddaughter has just gone back to work after having a baby. She got 9 months on full pay and then 3 months on half pay. But although she has gone back she is doing part time for 3 months on full pay and then she'll go back to full time.
if someone is always taking sick leave your employer can ask you to see their own doctor, but then if someone is long term sick you go onto half pay after 6 months at most companies
The sick allowance in the UK is slightly overstated. She's right that there's no technical limit on sick pay, so you can't be fired for being sick too much, but the employer is only technically obliged to pay Statutory Sick Pay, which is just £116 a week. So not really enough to live on. Most people will have a contract where they're paid in full though. I don't work in the UK, but I work for a UK company, and we can sign ourselves off for 2 days but on the third day, we have to get a doctor's note. And we can only sign ourselves off 5 times a year. You will also typically get a meeting with your manager if you're sick on multiple occasions, which is very much in the "Is there anything we can do to help?" vein, but clearly with an undertone of "We've got our eye on you."
Most only get SSP. I've never had a job that pays otherwise, nor has anyone else I know.
@@amandag5072 Is that right? I've not worked in the UK for 15 years, and before I left, I was young enough to not get sick too much.
Im originally from the countryside (UK) Surrounded by farms fields ect, we all had nice gardens too Some men STILL had allotments, some had flowers but mostly Veg. We lived by a big area with them and do you know what?? To me as a kid - teen it seemed like a place for men to get out of their houses away from their wives. 😂😂 Its true, its a hobby down the road, leave them to it. Some go to a pub some go and mess with their vegetables and flowers or whatever. lol. Not all of them but yeah, an outside hobby. They had competitions like biggest vegetable of the year ect and seemed to make friends with others. Bless em
Florida doesn't have income tax for individuals, but you still need to pay the federal tax.
An allotment is not a community garden btw
Long term school loss you get schoolwork sent home!
My experience of UK sick days is that people who are inclined to take advantage of it will also be poor workers and that will limit their progress anyway, whereas good workers don't take sickies. It pretty soon becomes clear who is genuinely ill a lot and who it just trying it on. Also, with our fairly generous annual leave and standard hours in a week, it isn't so important to save a days leave if you just really need a day off. And of course if you are part time you don't get paid for being ill.
if you take more than 5 weeks off sick in a year your total employer will question it. anything over 7 working days you need a doctors note. if you on long term sick then its up the occupational health and HR to manage. an allotment its a retable patch on land to grow veg. community garden is different in the UK it would mean more like a small park for local people
The 28 day holiday is full pay as well I also get a monthly bonus for not being sick 😂😂
Current UK tax bands.
Income Tax rates and bands
Band Taxable income Tax rate
Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0%
Basic rate £12,571 to £50,270 20%
Higher rate £50,271 to £125,140 40%
Additional rate over £125,140 45%
FOR BEING ILL. Depending on the employer policy you can call in ill for up to one working week on full pay, after that you need a fit or sick note from the doctor. They can sign you off for as long as you need and revisit that weekly monthly etc...
Depending on the employer but generally you will get full pay for 6months then after that 50% for 6 months then zero.
If your company doesn't offer sick pay you can claim £70 per week from the government.
Hope this clears up.
Do these girls even know what they are talking about? They were not clear about the income tax they pay.
We also dont have to do our own taxes,
Ironically whilst I’ve just been off work due to a chesty viral infection for three days, whilst on sick pay..
Being off sick has to be genuine, the ones pulling a fast one will get found out. The sick pay a person gets varies from company to company, though there is a statutory sick pay from the government, which isn’t great. It also says a lot about a company on how they look after their staff.
I fell sick 4 days before my 2 weeks holiday and the management cancelled my holiday so I could keep the days rather than lose them for being ill!
@itsjpsyt by all means!
I am English, but jaywalking is definitely a crime in Germany 😂
In Germany if you are crossing at a designated spot with lights you are legally obliged to wait even if it's 3.00 am and there is no traffic in sight in the same way as if you were in a car you would have to wait for the red light to change. However, if you walk further down the street you can just cross the road
If you're really ill and off work, you can 'self-certificate' for 7 days, but after that a doctor has to issue a medical sick note, also most big employers have a procedure in place, that monitors your sick days, when not validated by a doctor, and the procedure is graded, so stage 1 through to stage 4 were you can be deemed unfit for work.
If I were you, Joel, I would emigrate to Britain with Will; you would do great things here.
I think he's gone off Will. 😞
When I was a teen I was obsessed with the US states so I am pretty sure I would be able to name a fair amount of them.
love your videos bro, been watching for a few years now, love following your story, keep it up
@itsjpsyt would be happy to have a conversation when you have time
Most employers have sickness policies where you get called in and reviewed if you have too much sickness within a set period, and after a while they will stop paying you if you're on long term sick. Pregnancy related sickness is protected though and won't contribute to triggering a review.
In my old job because of the way my rota worked out I had 12 weeks off plus another 4 due to bank holidays.
I can name every country in south America, almost every state in the USA (I might forget one if i was put on the spot) and mist countries in Africa and Asia. Our education system has a GLOBAL focus 🇬🇧.
Including bank holidays I get 35 days annual leave
As U2 said in a song, "the rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor", TRUER WORDS have never been spoken
Alot of firms use a Bradford scale, it highlights people taking a friday off or other random patterns, 3 absences in 12 months tend to trigger a quick meeting with your line manager just to see if its something that your employer can help with, they generally are not disciplinary at this point, but yes 6 months at full pay and 6 months at half pay is average. Anything over 7 days requires a doctors note and they can be dated for any length of time.
Iget 28 days of paid leave including all bank holidays and it isnt connected to sickness
6 months at full pay and 6 months at half is not average. Most will only pay statutory sick pay which is about £95 a week. This is why so many people went to work sick during CVD.
@amandag5072 in 40 years of work, I have never had a job that only pays SSP, but I guess its the jobs I got were the reason, 10 years military, 20 in the NHS and ending my career with the police.
I assume if you are in a low wage job or part of hospitality, etc you may not get the same benefits
Thats like saying name the counties in the UK.....
Sick time seems to be taken advantage of more by the younger generation, in the NHS for example trainee nurses know exactly how to play the system and take maximum amount of sick without leaving themselves open to being fired! I have a number of long term health issues but have taken 3 days sick (with covid) in the last 4 years. My wife has chronic rheumatoid arthritis and hasn't been sick in years either, we just get on with it.....