27 “Culture Shocks” This Canadian Woman Experienced After Moving To Sweden

Are you serious??? We don't even have guaranteed paid leave and y'all get a bonus for not working!?!?!

The amount is roughly 8% of your yearly income. so 12x 2000 = 24000/100= 240 x8 = 1920, before tax, obviously

The same in Finland too.

Same in Norway, usually on your July pay check, either 10,2 or 12 % of your regular salary (for most people).

We have the same in Denmark, but only if you're payed hourly. I think what she means is on holidays as national markdays, they get payed extra, even though they're not working. That's how it works here anyways

People are paid vacation pay in Canada, too. I don't know why she thinks this is odd? Everyone gets 2 weeks vacation pay once a year (usually in the summer) from their employers. It's a percentage of a person's pay that the employer pays out. It equals two weeks of pay. A person gets it whether they take a vacation or not.

Half tax in December is tricky, mostly you need to give it back next year. Nothing's for free! 🙂

It makes sense - keep the kid home and they don't pass it on to others - one person or company takes the hit vs. a dozen.

Right? Unfortunately, here in the States Republicans don't care about kids, but they'll fight you to the death for the right to tell a woman what she can do with her own body.

That's a good question. But at the same time, 120 days seems insane. 🤔

The US has policies where they can't fire you for taking a bunch of days off to take care of a sick relative. Unfortunately you don't get bonus paid sick days to do it though

Eh. Nope.

Yes, but for anything above 2 weeks consecutive you need a doctor's note. 120 days a year sounds like a lot, but consider that this is the Swedish solution for caring for children with cancer, kidney failure or long term stuff like that. I used a lot of days the year that my 5 year old was diagnosed with diabetes. It took 2 months to get his meds sorted. I didn't need to do that the next year, it was a one time block of time to handle it.

The US is equal. No days for either!

pretty much all developed nations have some paid parental leave. apart from that 1 "Free" country that always love to say how free they are.

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Well, I breastfed my sons about 18 months, and was three years on parental leave. Dad‘s can‘t breastfeed…🤷🏻‍♀️

actually you could be off for 18 months in Canada

Every province has a different program in Canada, so it's hard to generalize.

Canada doesn't. It is just the US with a shitty working for tips system. In Canada, wait staff get minimum wage or better. But, because we're influenced by the US, they ALSO get tips. I had a friend who became a teacher here and she said it took her 5 years of teaching before she made as much as she did as a waitress... that probably says something about teaching salaries, but it also tells me wait staff can do pretty good!

Yep, sad but true.

I'm guessing you were in posh restaurants and in London? Service charge isn't normal in a lot of the UK. Maybe if there's a large group of you.

My district serves totally spoiled and/or expired milk sometimes!

@… yes I did bring my own lunch cuz it was so crappy

What do they offer for lunch in America?

You can actually thank Michelle Obama for that

nope, teenagers and adults that don't need a full on car...we have good public transportation...elderly get discount and sometime special busses for short trips

In nordic countries these are most commonly used by teenagers these days. There's a lot of them, all over the place, especially in more rural areas with pretty much no public transport. When I was a teenager, a lot of the teenagers actually got a tractor card when they turned 15 and they drove to school and to their friend's places and just around the town as well with their tractor. Some still do that, but moped cars are clearly more popular these days.