>>I bet the employees at HQ in Paris get a better deal than that
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>>Absolutely.
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>>FWIW, generous policies lead to weird distortions. In at least one country, annual paid sick leave (separate from other leave entitlement) recently went from 5 days to 10 days annually. More than a few firms reported that workforce sickness suddenly doubled as well, with many workers reporting sick up to 100% of their paid sick leave entitlement but not a second over. ;-)
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>Oh, I know a number of people who are sure to get sick the maximum number of days each year.

And then there are the people who have to be practically dead to take a day off. When my mother retired from teaching, she had a tremendous bank of unused days for which she was then paid (can't remember if it was 100% or something less). I think she may have had about a year's worths of unused sick/personal days.

Tamar