Most important thing is that the 30 Days Vacation are Paid Vacation. Its Always Paid.

@aramn8151

Жыл бұрын

@Brett Tarpley yeah, anyone with a 40 work week gets the 30 paid vacation days here. Only you work less hours or a „mini job“ it is less vacation days.

@aramn8151

Жыл бұрын

@Brett Tarpley I think that depends on the contract. But if you work at late hours or weekends you usually get paid extra pay per hour.

@aramn8151

Жыл бұрын

@Brett Tarpley Yeah, in the US, I don't know how the situation is in Germany. Its probably the same or similiar

@TheThetobias1997

Жыл бұрын

@Brett Tarpley Overtime is kind of weird here. I had a job, where overtime was not paid out and you could just take it of either. But it was strongly discouraged to accumulate overtime and if you did you would have a talk with managers to make a plan to get rid of the overtime. At my current job it's not paid either, but I can just take days off to get rid of my overtime.

@TheThetobias1997

Жыл бұрын

@Brett Tarpley what do you mean? Often the budget is quite strict, so employers don't want unexpected chances in compensation they have to pay, so overtime is discouraged. What do you mean by not very ambitious?

As an employee of a global corporation based in the US I have visited the German factories of some of our vendors. The technicians in these factories are highly trained, disciplined and well compensated. The amount of quality work they produce in those 35 hours is astounding.

@tomiding6947

Жыл бұрын

Maybe They are More productive because they arent exhausted, and are happy at work?

@jrs5054

Жыл бұрын

If this is real I need to move to Germany then.

@noreng4933

Жыл бұрын

@@jrs5054 I am German, this is true (and completely normal to me)

@swarles354

Жыл бұрын

@@aramn8151 well fuck me. I live in Germany and only have 28 days of vacation for a full time job, working 40hrs/week

@aramn8151

Жыл бұрын

@@swarles354 I'll write in in German: Dann solltest du vielleicht mal nachverhandeln. Wir haben zwar nur 20 gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Arbeitstage, aber 28 Tage bei 40h/Woche ist arg wenig. Ich kenne in meinem Umfeld keine Person, die nur 28 Tage bei einer Vollzeit-Stelle haben, außer sie haben extrem schlecht verhandelt.

As a danish, when i started hearing about american working standards, it sounded like a dystopia lol

@stuckupcurlyguy

Жыл бұрын

It is a dystopia

@CoreyandCrew

Жыл бұрын

Help :(

@Parpyduck

Жыл бұрын

Japanese work culture is a whole nother beast.

@alexfeels872

Жыл бұрын

im getting tf out of the us

@keck4022

Жыл бұрын

Because it is

My husband collected so much overtime hours he has taken the whole of december off. A colleague of his took 2 months off to travel around Asia. I love Germany.

@obvfake203

Жыл бұрын

Damn, now I live in Italy (almost 7 years). I would like to go work and live in germany, but the language barrier is what scares me

@gamerdrache8741

Жыл бұрын

​@@obvfake203 we have 1 million italians

@jepini3964

Жыл бұрын

430 hours overtime as a azubi in my second year welcome to germany

@JH-qqqqqiim

Жыл бұрын

But they don’t pay you 1.5? You have to take the days off? What if you want to work hard to save money for a goal? I work overtime to make $$$ not get days off.

@NiamhLauren

Жыл бұрын

@@JH-qqqqqiim that wont work most time because we value Lebenszeit more than money

One of the reasons why Walmart failed in Germany was because the German government deemed Walmart's working conditions inhumane. Germans who had initially worked there quit soon after starting because of the company's atmosphere and after that Walmart struggled to replace the employees.

@Julia-uo6jz

Жыл бұрын

And we are very proud of it 😂 no need for this kind of slavery and turbo capitalism over here thank you very much 😂❤

@flamingstorm9820

Жыл бұрын

​@@Julia-uo6jz enjoy it cause I'm currently still stuck here

@Cussy69_420

Жыл бұрын

​@@Julia-uo6jz not in Germany, right! But we force people in other countries to enjoy capitalism and slavery so our way of life is guaranteed...

@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828

Жыл бұрын

I heard they were also trying to pay people for snitching on their colleagues

@robbieschertz3726

Жыл бұрын

This is why even here, in the us, I still shop at Aldi

As a german i can tell you 40h/week is completely normal…would love to see a 35hr week

@Itriedbeingcreativebutfailed

Жыл бұрын

Depends on what you work as but unfortunately yes

@melissag5505

Жыл бұрын

That's the Metalltarifvertrag only, 39-37 are way more common, at least in production companies

@Ronnet

Жыл бұрын

In production environments it is common to have officially 36 or 38 hour work weeks where you actually work 40 hours and build up 13 to 26 extra vacation days.

@schreibvehler4484

Жыл бұрын

Siemens macht es möglich ;)

@schreibvehler4484

Жыл бұрын

@@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828 da hast du recht bruder

We call that: Arbeitnehmerrechte

@matthewvanvught

Жыл бұрын

Zo is dat duitse makker. Groeten van Benelux

@matze1805

Жыл бұрын

Und das finde ich wunderbar

@haresmahmood

Жыл бұрын

Lolll

@submate536

Жыл бұрын

​@@nefretitititi ernsthaft

@federalisticnewyorkians4470

Жыл бұрын

I thought French had complicated words, why are German words so long?

Wait till Americans know that there are paid sick days in Germany and your doctor can write it in your prescription accordingly so that you can take time off to get healthier. It will blow their minds :P

@reesofraft4166

Жыл бұрын

you need to tell them as well that the sick days are not limited and you don't have to plan them in advance! they are as long as you are sick. if the doctor says you are sick for 2 months - you will be on PAID sick leave for 2 months and the company cannot fire you for that.

@Xoiskin1969X

Жыл бұрын

but...thats,.....SOCIALISM!!! :D

@meadowlark8197

11 ай бұрын

After 2 Months your income will drop to 800 Eur sice your income must then be payed by the healthcare insurance company…. so not exactly socialism but a little bit like socialism … depending on what you define as socialism… 😅

@reesofraft4166

11 ай бұрын

that is not exactly correct in germany. after 6 weeks of being on sick leave the income will be up to 90% of your normal income, and paid by the health insurance instead of your employer. this will continue for up to 72 weeks (1,5years). after the 78th week of sickness this will end - but after more than 1,5years of sickness you might have the right for a reduced earning capacity pension as you might still be sick but unable to work anymore. Or you might get back to work on a reduced work time (as a colleague of mine did, battling cancer and still having to earn money for the family)@@meadowlark8197

@reesofraft4166

11 ай бұрын

up to 90%, depending on the circumstances, but afaik normal rate is around 76% of your standard pay.

Honestly 40h work week is more common in germany

@Siegmernes

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. That's the standard but if you have a strong union it's often less. And you have a legal right to part-time work after 6 months of employment.

@rickmortyson4861

Жыл бұрын

I had 37.5 hours.

@DaGhostFaceHD

Жыл бұрын

Junge hä? Nur weil du 40h/week arbeitest heisst micht dad ganz Deutschland so is. 35 ist der durchschnitt, wir gehen sogar immer weiter runter in den letzten Jahren. Das ist auch gut und schlau so. Wenn du 40h/week arbeitest bist du eh zu dumm oder zu schlau.

@tiberius8390

Жыл бұрын

@@Siegmernes that goes both ways then, though. Your boss can also tell you "in 3 month's time you will work only 35h... and with 12.5% less salary of course, too"

@Ramotttholl

Жыл бұрын

Is it though? I mean in the netherlands the standard at my job is 38h+2 meaning we work 40h weeks but every week you basically earn an extra 2h off but its calculate ahead of time for the whole year like normal time off.

Meanwhile german nurses, medics,… working up to 60h a week so the system doesnt collaps 😢

@doktorluc2264

Жыл бұрын

Yeah sadly you can‘t change that because we need more healthcare workers 🥴 but hopefully the government changes things like the salary

@baronbrummbar8691

Жыл бұрын

@@doktorluc2264 hahahha good one

@turboterps

Жыл бұрын

@@baronbrummbar8691 He is a comedian

@Jizzzmani

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Netherlands; yea you can work up to 60h But you will be taxed way more than bilioners? Why? Cuz you work more of course! It means you can earn more!

@sir_j.franklin

Жыл бұрын

And it depends on your contract if you get paid for those hours. In most cases the hospitals would be financially ruined if the whole overtime would be paid. And when you want to take a day off in lieu you can't do it because there is too much work and somebody needs to do it or someone is ill...

When he says, he negotiated so well, he is not entirely wrong. Just that the German worker-grandparents did that job for him. All working achievements were fought for by workers! ❤

@michaelslator64

Ай бұрын

And they lost two world wars?

The legal minimum of vacation in Germany is calculated 2 days per month, so 24 days of vacation per year. A lot of companies offer 30 days, but they wouldn't need to.

@jobw

Жыл бұрын

No it's 20 days if you work 5 days per week. Look it up.

@nivarazat6670

Жыл бұрын

@@jobw I looked it up, you're right! Thank's for correcting 😃🌷

@dieblaueflamme4387

9 ай бұрын

​@@nivarazat6670If you work 6 days though your 24 days are correct.

@leviturner3265

7 ай бұрын

I get 5 days of vacation per year. I had to work a year at the company to get that. Once I complete my second year than I get 10 days of vacation per year. To get 15 days of vacation per year I would have to stay with the company for 10 years. They do not offer more than that. One employee has been there for 20 years, and they would not give him another week of vacation when he asked for it. I think in the United States no vacation time is required but some jobs offer it. Before at my last job I never got vacation. I worked there for 5 years. Also, they did not pay you when you were off for holidays. At least at my current job we get paid holidays. I believe there is like 10 paid holidays a year. Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Years etc.

@BigTdeluxe

7 ай бұрын

41 days here 😊 that's 36 regular vacation days, 3 "Schichtarbeits-Urlaibstage" and 2 "Regenerationstage"

Just to clarify the minimum paid vacation is 20 days although a lot of companies give 30 but certainly not all , but still better than in the USA I guess .

@AG-cj7im

Жыл бұрын

20 if you have less than 2 year of work experience or undergraduate. If not 26 days plus 4 days for emergency leave.

@stratospekos

Жыл бұрын

@@AG-cj7im in Germany ? No . By law for a 5 days workweek the minimum is 20 days , nothing there about work experience or educational level . Disabled employees are entitled to 5 additional.

@poopy9172

Жыл бұрын

@@AG-cj7im nope. The minimum is 20 days / year for a 5 day work week. If you work more or less than that, which means 6 days/week max as one rest day per week is mandatory, the amount of minimum vacation gets adjusted accordingly, as long as you stay within the 4 weeks / year. Most companies are doing 24 for a 5 day work week anyways and voluntarly agree to increase the vacation days by 2 every 2 years the employee stays in the company till 30 days max. But that is not required by law and it is mostly due to the fact that it's better to give you more vacation and keep you as an employee than looking for a new one, which is a pain in the back for both employer and employee.

@tallammeekah

Жыл бұрын

Lol my mom has worked at her company for 30+years and typed out at 28 days vacation.... it took her 25 years to accumulate that .... year one you get 4 days

@CatWith-AHat

Жыл бұрын

The standard in America is 80 hours of vacation, or 10 days.

Many companies in the US, you'd be lucky to even get an offer like that even after decades of service.

@iamchillydogg

Жыл бұрын

That's why our GDP is 5 times that of Germany.

@laraleo6412

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining the joke

@64imma

Жыл бұрын

@@laraleo6412 Yeah I know it's a little bit of "overexplaining", but the thing is, as an American, it is so genuinely frustrating to see how ignorant most people around me are to just how badly they're getting screwed over. If I stay with my current company, it could take me decades to even come close to receiving the same benefits that a Danish mcdonald employee receives from day 1. If I lose my job and need to go to the hospital the very next day, it could put me into lifelong debt, because hey you no longer have health insurance. It's just amazing because if anyone I knew got an offer like this, I'd say they must've got really lucky, whereas in Germany that's "the bare minimum" (aka they could do better if they tried). It's so frustrating to live in a country that can't even provide the baseline support for its citizens, but too many people are drunk off American exceptionalism and cold war propaganda, to realize how royally fucked over they're getting.

@whomagoose6897

Жыл бұрын

Even after decades of experience and service. Just wait until you get to the age of 60, and, older. The closer you get to around that age of 60. You will start hearing that more "experienced" workers have more potential, costly accidents. Notice no mention of age. Anything happens at all, out the door you go. Mostly due to supervisor claims that you are not productive. This is a very subjective opinion of your supervisor. Think you can get a lawyer and sue. Good luck with that.

@Akrus15

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but according to „salary transparency“ many people in the US get 120k+ yearly salaries, which you really cant expect in Germany. You are already pretty good if you get 60k a year. I watched those videos from the US and was shocked to find out that even fresh graduates make at least 80k. Everything comes at a price I guess.

That's the thing about union jobs, you don't have to worry about being a good negotiator, cuz someone will do those negotiations for you

@codieomeallain6635

Жыл бұрын

You just have to hope that they don’t “negotiate” you into unemployment by demanding so much that the business is no longer profitable for the owners. Unions are a good thing by and large, but when they get too uppity they can sink entire industries.

@rodrigovaccari7547

Жыл бұрын

@@codieomeallain6635 or regulating jobs that are perfectly fine and just screwing over independent workers.

@100GTAGUY

Жыл бұрын

​@@rodrigovaccari7547 don't forget the racket of union dues too!

@Kipperlab

Жыл бұрын

Nope because the negotiate the MINIMUN so if you negociate better you keep the better deal!@@rodrigovaccari7547

@jan-lukas

11 ай бұрын

If we had American unions in Germany sure those points might be correct but we simply don't

As someone from Portugal same here 40/35 hours contract... Paid Vacations.. is Standart here in most European countries, also if you are sick no problem...

@budapestkeletistationvoices

4 ай бұрын

Because of the EU working time directive that gives 20 days the bare minimum and member states, even the UK goes above

✨Arbeiterrechte✨

@holgerj.440

Жыл бұрын

Keine Arbeitnehmerrechte ohne Gewerkschaften 💁

@joelthorstensson2772

Жыл бұрын

Alles dank der DDR (und natürlich der Reformen nach der russischen Revolution, damit die Arbeiter den Fabrikbesitzern nicht die Köpfe abhacken)

@josev7417

Жыл бұрын

Worker's rights? What are those? Is it some sort of delicious German dish I've never heard of?

@josev7417

Жыл бұрын

@@nietzschesayshi2569 Sad but true.

@fudgecameron_

Жыл бұрын

@@josev7417 Yeah! It's made with Potatoes, Sausage and the Social Democratic Party in the Weimar Republic!

México 48 hours a week, 6 days of vacation a year, left the chat.

@angelmontalvo4385

Жыл бұрын

That’s if you’re lucky 🥲

@1.blazeIT

Жыл бұрын

@Falos PT Die? Nah dawg, even dead those guys are still paying bills.

@Miguel-ff5xw

Жыл бұрын

The worst thing is to ask for a week off and have to burn all 6 days, since you work Monday to Saturday, not to mention the Mexico has less than 10 holidays in a year 🤮

@LoFiAxolotl

Жыл бұрын

still more than the legal requirement and what most people get n the US

@Dread_2137

Жыл бұрын

@@Miguel-ff5xw americans need to work during holidays, so you're still in better position than them xD

To be completely honest, I have experience with working 50, 40 and 35 hours. I would say I was about as productive during those 35 hours as during the 50 hours. When you work 35 hours or less, you can put in full effort during those hours. But once you have to work more than 6-7 hours a day, you will have to spread and conserve your energy. If you give a 100% for 40-50 hours a week, you will eventually crash. Might happen in a month, it might take years, but it will happen.

Our lead technical architect in Germany took 1 year of paternity leave. Which was eye opening for a lot of people

@CellarDoorPoet

8 ай бұрын

And that’s just what you get paid by the government. You can take up to three years of child leave and the company must take you back after.

40 hours is still normal here

@tomlxyz

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the industry

@Micha-bp5om

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I work in IT as a consultant and have 40h.

@allesdurchprobiert

Жыл бұрын

I work in IT as an Admin in a small company. In some months I worked 50-60h per week. The time was added to my time account but I could almost never take those hours or days off. Small companies don't have anything to do with unions and generally suck. But outside the big cities you can't easily find a better job unless you have a total common mainstream job. I'll finally leave this year. I hate it when delusional people portray Germany as some kind of paradise, although many struggle and suffer.

after 3 years in Germany, these KZreadrs videos would not fool me 😂😂

@miss_pouty

4 күн бұрын

Why? Is it different?

This is the bare minimum of the horror, the Americans call "socialism"

@adisappointedfbiagent449

8 ай бұрын

Why don’t we take a trip to Venezuela and see how they’re doing?

@emoveo1

8 ай бұрын

​@@adisappointedfbiagent449to Russia😅

@heiserberg_owo

8 ай бұрын

@@adisappointedfbiagent449 this is the horrors of alcohol, beer, why not drink pure alcohol and see how it tastes?

@antonsiberian

7 ай бұрын

​@@emoveo1 what are you talking about, there is no socialism in Russia at all. Some Western/Northern European countries have more socialism these days.

40 hours is the usual in Germany. Less is uncommon. In certain jobs there are usually more hours.

Gleitzeeeeeit 👌👌👌

@robinprivat3024

Жыл бұрын

🤝🤝🤝

America m: Yeah you can take a vacation... if you can afford not get paid for those days off and we can find somebody to cover your shifts.

@420_Logan

Жыл бұрын

Ong

@georgev8590

Жыл бұрын

@@420_Logan Do we ruin it for him?

@littleceasar9351

Жыл бұрын

If you are a server at Chili’s this is probably true.

@FXIIBeaver

Жыл бұрын

Stop working in fast food and go out and learn something.

I still prefer my weekend job. 24 hour week, 12 on saturday 12 on sunday 5 days off :)

@beatrixk.6723

4 ай бұрын

Was machst du beruflich?Sowas suche ich auch. 24 h reicht aus ,man bekommt noch Wohngeld und kann 5 Tage Kurzurlaub machen. Ein Träumchen.😊

Well, I am German and live in Germany. At my last job I was asked how many hours I wanted to work and I answered "37,5 to 40 hours a week". I then got to decide myself and chose 37,5 hours because that was I was used to as full time. Turned out that every full-time employee worked 40 hours a week (25 days vacation per year), so I was officially only part-time. I would love the 35 hour full-time job from the clip.

@KxNOxUTA

Жыл бұрын

That is why they said it's negotiated by the union for that company!

@difficult1003

7 ай бұрын

Rest of the word: 8hours per day

@artpost854

2 ай бұрын

The IG Methal union has negotiated that a 28-hour contract will be considered full-time if there is a good reason for it, such as childcare or elderly care, etc. Normally, however, a 35-hour contract is full-time.

Yea... the US should really revisit their labour laws

@pravomirnemecky8127

Жыл бұрын

But it makes companys number go up less 😂

@CoolKoon

Жыл бұрын

Revisit their what?!

@rawrou

10 ай бұрын

The moment someone tries to touch them, half of the country manages to yell communism in unison, which is kinda creepy and totally not a sign of communism.. Anyway, even people who are suffering under this system are happily voting for their oppressors there, because there are just 2 parties and they do not want to vote for the other party whatsoever. Its the perfect democratic oppression, that's why those two parties do not want other parties.

As a working class, American citizen, this sounds like heaven compared to what we go through weekly.

The real negotiators you'd have to thank are the unionized workers

@gonozal8_962

10 ай бұрын

🎶us poor folks haven’t got a chance, unless we organize🎶

@KNNY_-sp6kq

8 ай бұрын

@@gonozal8_962 🎶which side are you on? Which side are you on? 🎶

35 hrs / weeks and 30 days off is normal in any company going with the IG Metall conditions. More people should join the unions. It's worth it.

37.5 hour week, 33 paid days holiday, overtime is paid at 1.5 rate for first 8 hours overtime and after that at double rate. This resets weekly.

@aschneider8912

Жыл бұрын

paid overtime is a tool to coerce workers into willingly getting exploited. you will never get that time back, not with any money. some companies let you take the time off at a later time and still keep the .5 bonus, which is ideal imo

@lorep7412

Жыл бұрын

salary half in comparison to USA 😅

@Thorfinn47.

Жыл бұрын

​@@lorep7412 , living expenses are half too , plus it's in the middle of Europe, you can travel to all countries easily, and also it's very safe compared to that shithole usa safety , you will get tons of benefits for tax u pay , unlike usa which will bomb 💣 country

@aluminiumknight4038

Жыл бұрын

​@@lorep7412 germans get affordable healthcare and education, americans sell their kidney for that

@dariusk8769

Жыл бұрын

Phillip looks like you from UK, btw UK economy going down, Germany economy best one, best work and live

I work 50 hours a week, so in Germany I can have a vacation every second month.

@m-driver

10 ай бұрын

you cann't work 50 hours a week continually in germany, it's against the law

@risikolp8354

10 ай бұрын

Wie viel verdienst du bro

Fellow German here: You're lucky to get such a job. Most companies, especially small ones, don't have to follow any special rules that give you benefits like that. I never had a 35h week or a lot of vacation days.

@KxNOxUTA

Жыл бұрын

Then you were not given a full-time contract but rather part time or mini-job and even for those there are rules!

@vanle3

Жыл бұрын

​@@KxNOxUTA Still, 40 hour weeks and about 27 days vacation are very common in Germany aswell.

Swedish teacher: 171 paid vacation days

Standard Is 40hours tho 🤔 (de)

@Psychic_nura

Жыл бұрын

Only if you work fulltime tho. Depending on the job (and where you life) you can actually afford to only work part time so 90 hours a month maximum. A colleage of mine and her husband both only work 90 hour a month and get by very very easily !

I need to practice my German

@lovesChicago

Жыл бұрын

English is enough. For international companies you dont really need German.

@damnix4269

Жыл бұрын

​@@lovesChicago doch brauchst du. Sonst mögen wir dich nicht. Komm ja auch nicht in die USA und sprich Spanisch. Nennt man Integration und Respekt.

@aycc-nbh7289

Жыл бұрын

@@lovesChicago But what about for ordering food, talking with friends, speaking to emergency services, using public transport, going to the cinema, etc.?

@aluminiumknight4038

Жыл бұрын

​@@lovesChicago the week is much more than 35 hours

@adnan3658

11 ай бұрын

​@@lovesChicago what about healthcare jobs Like physical therapy

Just for some context. This is not true of all employers in Germany.

@Thomas-hz8vb

Жыл бұрын

Well some parts but there are legal requirements for all employers if you have a full-time job I'm not sure what they are for Germany tho as I'm Austrian

As I German I can tell you that 35hrs a week is not very common over here. Most ppl work 40hrs/week. And overtimes are not paid/taken off in lots of sectors..

@itsgamingtime9578

Жыл бұрын

Ja normalerweise müssen überstunden bezahlt oder freigegeben werden aber leider gibt es firmen die einen zwingen inoffiziell mehr zu arbeiten.

@iglobrothers645

Жыл бұрын

I don't know a single person eho works fulltime anymore (I'm austrian)

@Goriaas

11 ай бұрын

@@iglobrothers645 Because our tax system punishes full time work. But secondly I live in Austria and many people still work full time

Sacrifice a weekend to acquire a youth leader license and you just got yourself a 2 extra weeks of paid vacation a year.

@Dread_2137

Жыл бұрын

germany... i'm coming!

@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828

Жыл бұрын

What is that? I googled it and i came to an Wikipedia article that had something to do with the Hitler Jugend i think thats not the right thing😂

@AjnosMitSukarm

Жыл бұрын

You would train trainees

@kilianendres7976

Жыл бұрын

​@@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828 Ich weiß nicht ob das gemeint war, aber beispielsweise bekommen ehrenamtliche Pfadfinderleiter, Fußballtrainer für Kinder usw zusätzliche Urlaubstage um beispielsweise mit den Kindern weg zu fahren.

@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828

Жыл бұрын

@@kilianendres7976 Noch nie gehört lol

I have 40h per week but I get 30 days paid vacation and have the right to take 1 day off per month if I have worked the hours in overtime. So basically I have 42 days off + public holidays every year and any additional overtime is compensated with a 125% payout. Also my company puts in a lot of additional ressources to further increase my qualifications.

It really depends on the company. Six months ago I started a new (office) job. 30 hours a week, with more income than I had at my last full time job, 30 days vacation, lunch coupons for a nearby restaurant, once every month there's a fun company brunch in our fancy conference lounge during office hours (the last one was themed Oktoberfest) etc. They have to offer something these days to get good employees.

@rafiasabahat02

Жыл бұрын

What company?

There is power in a union!

@lucasinatur2925

Жыл бұрын

THIS union isn't liked that much...

@mr.zimtus5231

Жыл бұрын

Solidarity forever!

@TheCimbrianBull

Жыл бұрын

Workers of the world: unite!

depends on what you work on. Usually 40hrs / week from 26 Days paid off.

As others pointed out, it's not quite like that. But, here you also get basically unlimited sick days (even though after 6 weeks you only get like 2/3 of your salary). I heard that this is not the case in all non-European countries.

I love gleitzeit i have 30 paid vacation days but with my Gleitzeit i easily reach 50 vacation days a year 😂 + since my main job is to maintain the factory I work sometimes Saturdays too ( from 6-12 but the way it gets paid is just bonkers 6-8 normal pay 8- end +50% payment)

@XBOkiXD

Жыл бұрын

I worked at a security company as a student, weekends mostly. Saturdays were paid +50% and Sundays +100€. Tax free. I think this is by law but I’m not sure.

@carolusrex9138

Жыл бұрын

@@XBOkiXD at my company I can choose between extra time or extra payment like you mentioned it but I'm an apprentice at the moment so taking the money isn't really worth it

30 days vacation is 4 weeks..In the US it takes probably 2 years minimum to grt this.. Honestly 50 hours is what most people want or need to make ends meet...in the Midwest u need at least 24/hour to live comfortably

@winterlinde5395

Жыл бұрын

30 days refer to workdays. So it’s 6 weeks 😊

@PhilWitDa_45

Жыл бұрын

@@winterlinde5395 wow...that's great ...my last job u got 3 weeks after 8 years and you had to take full weeks at a time. You got up to 5 weeks after 15 years.We Americans have let the puppet masters take our lives for the sake of a few extra dollars because the excessive hours kill productivity and morale

@stratospekos

Жыл бұрын

Well 30 days vacation can be 6 weeks for those who have a 5 days workweek or 5 weeks for those who have a 6 days one , so it depends.

@winterlinde5395

Жыл бұрын

@@stratospekos That’s true.

@xnuntius

Жыл бұрын

@@stratospekos well there is almost no job in Germany having a standard 6 days work week. Since most companies are union organized (or the overall industry is) there is at least to my knowledge no standard 6 day week. It might be possible but would be a rate exception. And let us not forget the 13 National holidays and the fact that you get your vacation days back if you fall sick during vacation.

I'm from Germany and this is only in companys with unions. Also 30 days of vacation ist not the standard. But beside of this I love watching your Videos 😂

@Danygo__

Жыл бұрын

Same here in America, I was looking up jobs for a steam fitter, one was union, 35 hour work weeks, 60$ an hour. 30 days of paid vacation. Almost all well paid blue collar jobs are like this. If it’s not union, you will eat shit, at least over here.

Cries in American 😭

I work 39 hours monday to friday, weekend work paid 150% per hour, every overtime hour is collected 11 months and i get it on top of my december pay check, 30 days paid vacation, 2 weeks paid education vacation which is just vacation with your colleges every year and if i didnt took my 30 days vacation i can bring it to next year and "could" spend full 60 work days off in the next year, i dont have to work the last week of december and the first of january. Besides that there are like 10 extra paid days off work by law (christmas, Halloween and so on)

"Ok Mr Sacharieee" killed me 😭😭

Wait till he finds out you don’t need health insurance from your job

@RoonMian

Жыл бұрын

Yes and no. Your employer pays half your insurance premium. If you don't have an employer you have to pay both halfs. (On social welfare the welfare agency pays the premium)

@Micha-bp5om

Жыл бұрын

@@RoonMian Exactly, it is actually quite costly. 380€ are deducted every month from my salary and the employer pays another 380€

@Raguel88

Жыл бұрын

@@Micha-bp5om But you dont have hospital bills of up to millions

@rickmortyson4861

Жыл бұрын

​@@Raguel88 no but Mercedes audi or bmw's.ah dont forget maybach. The german rolls royce.

@barbieblue3336

Жыл бұрын

@@RoonMian halves

Soooo as a German citizen you get worker rights, as an American citizen you get the right to work...

Actually it's 48 Hours maximum by law, and 35 to 40 in most companies.

@itsgamingtime9578

Жыл бұрын

Right and wrong. Its a bit complicated. The average must be 48 or less.

omg, 35?! crazy!! - in my country it's about 45-48 hours a week and total of 11 days vacation (sometimes 9) and you paid of only for 1,540$ a month!!

@magdalenaludwicka3800

Жыл бұрын

Wbijaj do Europy do Polski😃

@lubov5569

Жыл бұрын

Which cou, country is that?

@user-nl2of8sm4v

Жыл бұрын

@@lubov5569 Israel.

@baronbrummbar8691

Жыл бұрын

well most people here work ~40 hours - just some jobs with MASSIVE unions go below that

@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828

Жыл бұрын

​@@user-nl2of8sm4vI thought Israel is rich country? Tel Aviv is always in the top 10 most expensive city lists

I really hoped that ending came. A lot of us Americans don’t understand the importance of taking time off. Reviving yourself for further productivity. I had a German teacher who wouldn’t let us forget it and I’m glad he didn’t.

@RoonMian

Жыл бұрын

The average German works ca 1300 hours per year. The average US American works ca 1700 hours per year. The standard of living is largely the same, Germans enjoy much more financial security. The difference does go somewhere. US Americans are getting screwed.

@nathandouvier1976

Жыл бұрын

@@RoonMian While the numbers may show only slight differences having a societal expectation for a “sunnier disposition” (albeit still slight and extremely nuanced) has a much larger effect than most give it credit for. It’s like the opposite of a lot of gang or dealer mentalities of “if they carry (fire-arms) so should I.”

@nathandouvier1976

Жыл бұрын

@@RoonMian It’s all perspective though, I see as kind of a manifest destiny thing. Not taking thing for as they are and for what they could be. Just not the whole stealing of land, people, and lives.

The U.K. has even more statutory paid holiday. Germanys is 20 days, ours if 28 days, but most places pay bank holidays too, so we basically get 32 days paid leave a year.

@PowerControl

7 ай бұрын

We get paid the same amount monthly, so it does not matter how many bank holidays a month has.

The agency I work for provides the option of pay or comp time (deferred time off) at 1.5x hourly rate. So, anything over eight hours in a day or forty hours in a week is paid overtime or deferred time off. Pretty sweet for a US employer.

*Laughs in Swedish six week vacation*

@dr4g0nsm4sh3

Жыл бұрын

30 days are six weeks bro...

@stellastella99

Жыл бұрын

@@dr4g0nsm4sh3 lol what? 30 days is roughly 4 weeks, 6 weeks is 42 days...

@dr4g0nsm4sh3

Жыл бұрын

@@stellastella99 nah work weeks are 5 days. Do if you have 30 days of vacation its actually 6 weeks. Do you have 42 days of vacation? So 8 weeks and 2 days?

In France we also have the 35h per week and 5 weeks of paid vacation

@Leenapanther

Жыл бұрын

In Switzerland 4 weeks are the minimum. Until the age of the 20 - 5 weeks 20 - 49 yo - 4 weeks 50 - 59 yo - 5 weeks 60 - 65+ - 6 weeks Most firms give 5 weeks though

In India the minimum time is 75 hours per week

@IGLArocknroll

Жыл бұрын

75?! That would be impossible in my native Hungary. Per the law, we can work 48 per week at max on average, unless a "collective agreement" between the workers and the company says otherwise, but anything over 60 is unheard of, and 60 is extremely rare, with a tremendous turnover rate.

You should come to Switzerland 😄 legal minimum requirement is 20 days paid vacation (that's just counting weekdays, because you're required to have two days off per week, so 20 days means a full 4 weeks) and the minimum wage for most office jobs is 3600 francs a month (before insurance deductions)

And here I am working 69 hours a week at $2 an hour to make ends meet. Im a semi skilled boilermaker in South Africa.

@tehs3raph1m

Жыл бұрын

If only you were skilled, could make $2.10

@Chronicleredxxx

Жыл бұрын

@@tehs3raph1m haha yea man bummer

Man I need to move to a place like that 😂

@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828

Жыл бұрын

Germany has a lot of other issues like highest taxes in OECD, too high rent etc.

I worked a 35 hour work week for 25 years (thanks to the union).

For me as a German, that's so cute. By the way, it's not so easy for people who need to work in shifts, but a lot of people try to improve this conditions too and it gets better. For example in many hospitals and nursing homes the nurses don't need to work longer than 7 days before two days off.

its really sad how Americans get treated in their own country

@CoolKoon

Жыл бұрын

Oh, actually they love it and they're proud of their "at will employment" laws...

@beverlycrowell_

10 ай бұрын

​@@CoolKoon Says who?

@CoolKoon

10 ай бұрын

@@beverlycrowell_ Lirerally almost every single American you ask. The most common counterargument is "at will employment also means that you can quit anytime!", which is kinda laughable in light of the fact that most Americans have a loan or a mortgage to repay...

40h is normal, especially self employed people often work more. But I think everyone who worked a low payed job with a lot of hours knows that the more hours you work the less productive it will be. Working less for the same monthly salary can be beneficial to the company. Before going to college I worked 45h for 9,5€ (minimum salary that year). Every day I started with clocking in and taking a 20 min shit. After quitting for college they told me I was their most productive and competent worker among the other students.

My Dad recently took a 3 Months Vacation. 30 regular Vacation days and with leftover Overwork hours from last year he managed to squeeze in another 40 Days from Overtime Hours. Enough to cover all of January, February and most of March.

and then there is the expected working time of doctors :D

German here: What's shown in video it's only half the story. Yes, Arbeitnehmerrechte (employees rights) are more favorable to workers in Germany than in many other countries. However, of course, you have to be productive and valuable to your employer to justify the costs you are producing. it is expected, for instance, that a skilled worker is flexible in his vacation planning. Employees in team leader roles and levels above normally work far more hours than the standard 35 without extra or overtime pay. Also, there's a tendency to hire people on short-term contracts for simple tasks paying only minimum wages and hardly any extra perks.

@huananina

Жыл бұрын

Also, 35 hours is NOT standard in Germany.

@thastayapongsak4422

Жыл бұрын

All this text wall and the core message still stands. German workers simply have better working conditions.

Du schaffst das schon, Zac! Ganz sicher…

Well...my contract says I have a 38,5 hour work week but during the main season (march to november) I often end up working 10 hours each day and end up with a lot of overtime. But whenever possible (meaning enough of my colleagues are working) I can take days off to reduce those hours I worked extra since it is all digitally recorded how many hours I did extra. Last week a colleague of mine got pretty much a week off work randomly to reduce his hours.

*Cries in American*

Sad but completely true

@flowneppets9496

Жыл бұрын

Why sad?

@hubbles8144

Жыл бұрын

Why sad

@NowaboMusic

Жыл бұрын

Because German law essentially gouges their own companies of labor instead of allowing negotiations which benefit more competent and competitive workers.

@zen_arcade

Жыл бұрын

@@NowaboMusic yet they maintain high productivity...

@jimtroy4380

Жыл бұрын

@@NowaboMusic Sounds like a bootlicker to me

Well in India my best friend is working in a private company for 12 hours a day and 6 days a week...so 40 hours in a week is just a dream...also she gets no extra pay for overtime

@F38U

Жыл бұрын

exactly, india.

Most companies don't have this. They have 40 h "minimum working time" without overtime compensation....

French hospital: 37h week, 19 paid rest days, 3 weeks of paid vacations.

@Jillberto

Жыл бұрын

What are "paid rest days"?

Any vacation days are better than none in US.

@crypticraps

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true

@caelator3549

Жыл бұрын

did he tell you that these vacation days are paid as well as stated by the law xD

"This is the legally the minimum I can give you" 💀

@flamingstorm9820

Жыл бұрын

Willkommen bei amerika Nothing is garenteed

I could go there and speak, but my current job is good. 5 days off and easy work

Everyone i know works 8 hours per day. Both in Lithuania and Germany.

The legal minimum is better than the American normal 😳

Work-life balance is only one of the many many many factors that brings career satisfaction. 😊

This changes everything for me

Where can I apply? Wo kann ich mich bewerben ?

35 hour work week in Germany meanwhile service industry worker in Hong Kong: work from 7am to 10pm everyday including Sunday

@servus2252

Жыл бұрын

Actually 40h a week is common. Unfortunatly 35h is rare. Never seen i😢

@cmybilly9237

Жыл бұрын

my example is 90 hours a week tho 90 is an extreme example but most service industry work do work more than 60 hours a week

Not to forget the 13th monthly salary 😂

Ummm...this is actually awful. I want time and a half, dang it.

@budder2970

Жыл бұрын

Yep this just punishes people tryna grind. They are basically taking hours from you if you wanna work a real standard work week.

@seyamrahman1002

Жыл бұрын

@@budder2970 a "real standard work" week normalized by the big companies... it's all subjective

@budder2970

Жыл бұрын

@@seyamrahman1002 40 hours is the right number idgaf lol. Id rather do 4 10 hour days tho ill say that.

@winterlinde5395

Жыл бұрын

What does time and a half mean? Is it about money or time? Could someone explain to a non English native speaker?

@sarahmichelle5902

Жыл бұрын

@@winterlinde5395 it means that once I work 40 hours, every hour I work after that, I get paid 1.5x the amount I got paid for the first 40 hours. So if my base pay is $20 an hour, but I work for 45 hours every week, then that extra five hours, I get paid $30 an hour. It's a great way to make extra money, and I regularly aim for overtime hours.

Don't forget that in Germany you generally earn less than in the US. I know 3 Americans who live in Germany and they were shocked how much less they earn per year in the same job. But again our high taxes are the reason we have such a good health care system etc.

@allaboutperspective650

Жыл бұрын

Yes you earn way less and pay way more in various taxes but if you compare the quality of life in the USA versus any country in Western Europe, USA is a shithole country for the average laborers.

@Jillberto

Жыл бұрын

Another thing is, life isnt as expensive as in the US.

@ftKomA

Жыл бұрын

@@Jillberto Well only in things that have to sk with health. The rest is on the same level. For Example let's say you pay for a small 3 room flat 1200 USD. You pay the same in Germany, but you're income is much lower. So 50-70% of your income just got vaporized for rent. And on things like Groceries, Germany is even more expensive than the US.

@Jillberto

Жыл бұрын

@@ftKomA if you pay 50%-70% of your income for rent, you are doing a lot of things wrong. Also, rent varies a lot in Germany. For 3 bedrooms 1200€ is quite a lot, but "normal" for bigger cities where you actually earn more money aswell. You can live a good life in germany with 60k a year. The taxes you pay are also calculated by your yearly income, a single mother wont pay as much taxes as someone who lives alone with no kids and an income of over 100k a year. Eitherway, the average living expenses in germany are around 40% less compared to the US.

@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828

Жыл бұрын

​@@Jillberto3 room apartment here in Stuttgart is more like 1600 cold😂

I got a consultant job offer in Germany and the contract says 40h/week, but I read online that 45h is the typical working week. But well, it's consulting, at least that's not 75h/week like what you might expect in firms like McKinsey and you still have to worry about up or out

Iam Born in Germany and work since 18 years 40 hours and more is common and being replace easy as well. Yes they are some benefits like the 24-30 days of paid vacation. But with all the taxes single people have to pay there is not much left at the end of the month because rent got high I mean everything got so expensive right now. German people are very disciplined hard working people but now with all the inflation a lot of them are tired and call themselves sick or suffer from burn out

As a German I have a 45 hrs contract but work around 55 every week. Payment is…okay. Just because law says something or some people are lucky doesn’t mean it’s like that all the time :/

This is what happens when you spend your taxes on the people instead of wars.

@DomoniqueMusiclover

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Amen to that.

@maxkessler1922

Жыл бұрын

You mean the USA don't to this?

@TheBushdoctor68

Жыл бұрын

@@maxkessler1922 Absolutely not. The same situation goes for education, healthcare, housing, infrastructure, etc. The USA pretends to be "The Best" but they treat their citizens the worst of all developed nations.

@aoifelalor2911

Жыл бұрын

yes!

@johnwright6706

Жыл бұрын

​@@maxkessler1922 we, the US, spend our taxes on people.....just not the US citizens, we send our taxpayer dollars to places like Pakistan, Chad, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Bolivia, India, Ukraine, Iran to really help the people there.

Literally more than 95% of jobs dont offer those conditions in Germany. If you work for Mercedes, yes they do but they are known for being a good employer. So its more of an exception

@crackedhammer4612

Жыл бұрын

Was ist normal arbeiten?

@keineahnung6012

Жыл бұрын

@@crackedhammer4612 24 Urlaubstage und 40 Stunden Woche

@peter_meyer

Жыл бұрын

95% offer max 40 hours per week with at least 20 work days paid vacation - and unlimited sick days. Fom day one on. There usually is a "probation time" of 3 - 6 months where you should show that you're realy interested in the job.

@crackedhammer4612

Жыл бұрын

@@keineahnung6012 ah, danke

@aramn8151

Жыл бұрын

20 vacation days is the legal minimum for a full-time job with 5 work days. Nearly any employer offers more, usually 30 days. And they’d be really dumb not do so. We have a big Fachkräftemangel and employees get to choose the employer with the best conditions. So usually many employers offer even better conditions than the above stated.

Happy workers equals to good work being done.

This used to be how America was too, except then a ton of robots had kids and told them to suck up, take internships, and just say yes instead of negotiating the terms of their employment.

@TheCimbrianBull

Жыл бұрын

Internships: "bUt yOu gEt pAiD iN eXpErIeNcE!" 🙄

Was?! 35 Stunden? Ich dachte, 39 Stunden wären ganz normal😅

@Maddinhpws

Жыл бұрын

Kommt auf die Branche an. Schwerindustrie wie Auto oder Stahl haben 35 Stunden als norm. Chemie hat 38 Stunden.

The standard work week is normally 40 hours.