• wewbull@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      If I take a sabbatical from my career and go work for a charity, I’m still taking a year off from my original job. What you do with the time is irrelevant to the language used.

      Should people get parental leave? … absolutely. Is it “time off” from your job? … Yes. Are they taking a holiday? … No.

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        2 months ago

        It might be a time off from employment but it’s not time off. It’s not a fucking holiday.

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          That’s what they said… It’s semantics. People associating “time off” with holiday for no reason when they don’t mean the same thing.