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While U.S. employers have been slowly whittling away at traditional employee benefits like sick days, and health insurance, and ranks lowest for maternity leave, as shown in a recent study by Human Rights Watch, in other countries it's common to provide some very untraditional employee benefits.
In the U.K., employers will often let their employees take a brief personal leave to take care of cosmetic and beauty procedures. It's known as “Botox Leave,” although it can also be used for things like haircuts. They're not the only country with employee benefits reflecting unique local flavors, according to the Mercer report “2012 Worldwide Benefit & Employment Guidelines."
For instance, Nigeria gives employees generators to use at home and even pays for their maintenance costs.
In France, employees who have worked for at least two years get to take one year unpaid leave to start or buy their own business. After the year, they can come back to their old job or one at a comparable level and pay.
Meanwhile, Chinese workers often get a special leave for getting married, usually around three days, with bonus days added if the bride and groom are "at a mature age,” which over there means 25 for men and 23 for women.
To get some of those benefits you'll either have to move countries. Or you can put in an application at Yahoo, whose CEO recently gave out free iPhone5's and choices of other smartphones to all employees. Now there's an benefit worth queueing up for.
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Botox or any foreign substance input into your body is not healthy and have long-term side effects. So why would companies encourage it? On this one, we need not follow the Europeans where society is getting lazier and lazier. Hell, they riot when asked to work 40 hours.
And Americans are ridiculously overworked!
Belong to Congress and you can steal all you want and give yourself raisies and all the benefits you desire...must be great...and everyone else will foot the bill..
The article said "In the U.K., employers will often let their employees take a brief personal leave to take care of cosmetic and beauty procedures." I wouldn't consider personal leave the same thing as "BOTOX Leave.
The start a business leave sounds good.
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Maybe NBCNEWS could give days off to people who actually have a command of the written word. Ben Popkin need not apply.
I think the letter a should have been used in front of benefit not an..doesn't sound right..I believe an is used if the next word begins with a vowel..try reading the ending line below from this article with "now there's a benefit worth queueing up for".. you'll see the a benefit fits better than an benefit.. Also, queueing is underlined in red meaning that the last e should have been dropped..the correct way is queuing. I did enjoy the article though.
Now there's an benefit worth queueing up for.
I have to go with AG here. Americans so work long hours compared to Europeans. As a surgeon, of course, I have to be available to my patients. As for Botox being the same as personal leave? Why not?
Dr. Rhys Branman
Little Rock Cosmetic Surgery Center
I have to go with AG here. Americans so work long hours compared to Europeans. As a surgeon, of course, I have to be available to my patients. As for Botox being the same as personal leave? Why not?
Dr. Rhys Branman
Little Rock Cosmetic Surgery Center