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In most EU countries it is mandatory minimum to give 4 paid weeks off per year, otherwise the company is breaking the law. And maternity leave obviously is almost a year, paid, not 2 weeks unpaid. I find it hard to justify living in a place that cares so little about its people. I get its your home country, but I mean, if your home country is actively hostile towards you, why stay?

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> In most EU countries it is mandatory minimum to give 4 paid weeks off per year, otherwise the company is breaking the law.

Make that five weeks for France plus up to 11 days of public holidays. That's a minimum too, we have a whole bunch of additional stuff that can stack on top of that, so many I can't even make a complete list from memory.

One of the many reasons my current s&p500 company will no longer actively hire in France other than to support specific big sales

As per the saying: "The French copy no one and nobody copies the French". If we were carbon copies of the British or the Americans, life on Earth would be just a little bit more boring.

We're not better or worse, we're just different. Deal with it or leave us be.

Sounds like the solution is pushing for the same type of legal minimums everywhere else, then ;)

Language, culture, family, friends, and missing awareness that conditions elsewhere might be actually better, to name a few?

Also, not everyone has the resources to move to another country.

You don't need much. Just a job willing to sponsor you, or be willing to start a business on an entrepreneurship visa.

And enough money to relocate across an ocean, if you can find a job willing to sponsor you, which is not at all assured. And starting a business requires initial capital.

If a job is willing to sponsor you, they are usually willing to pay the relocation expenses up front. Just like in the US if they want you to relocate across the country.

People have migrated throughout thousands of years on much less than most people have today.

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