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TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think this is pretty standard for Chinese companies. My friend works for one, and she doesn't get sick days. They must come out of her holiday allowance.

She gets treated better than her Chinese counterparts, though. For Chinese public holidays, they get the day off, but are then expected to give it back to the company at the weekend

[–] lambipapp 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha, no. This is US branch 100% I can promise you TikTok eu branch would not have had these rules even though they are both ByteDance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm afraid I and my friend are both in the EU. Chinese companies will and do find ways...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

UK is not the EU, m8.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know... Even with this information, I can confirm that my friend and I are both in the EU

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The problem isn't the Chinese companies the problem is the US doesn't have any kind of employee protection laws. If they did the Chinese companies couldn't do any of that. There was a reason they don't operate in Europe.

[–] butwhyishischinabook 10 points 2 weeks ago

I work for an American company and we have to use PTO for sick days. Unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is pretty standard for US companies in general.