Paid time off?
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- fredddddd
Does everyone in countries such as France and Germany get paid time off?
Does this include people in retail and part time jobs?
You read that people in France get 30 days off a year, but I wonder if that's everyone.
- ORAZAL0
Everybody gets paid vacations and it's 30 workdays (monday-friday).
- climbatree0
we get 4 weeks paid holiday here in NZ
- scruffics0
are you from the US, freddddd? i had a full time design job in Chicago and was given 5 holidays for the whole year, including sick days, too. didn't get health benefits of any kind until after 6 months of employment. honestly I have never felt less of a human being than I did that year.
- mydo0
30 paid holiday days!?
China it's 5 to 10 + 11 public.
- maikel0
The US know very little about work-life balance.
4 weeks' holidays here in Blighty... and some company benefits?
- Nathan_Adams0
4 weeks here in Australia too, for full timers anyway. Plus up to 10 days for personal leave (sick leave, bereavement leave, etc.). Not sure what the exact deal is with part-timers (might be pro-rata), but casual workers don't get paid time off.
- ernexbcn0
Here (Spain) it's also 30 days paid vacations a year.
- obsolete0
paid holidays is the first step to comunism!
- mekk0
Germany:
depends on your age.usually you have 2 days/month @40hrs/week.
so 12*2 = 24 days/year.part time workers @20hrs/week get then 12 days/year. additional days are fixed in the contract.
if you start to work on july 1st, you will have worked 5 months until the end of the year - makes 5 months = 10 days. not taken days can be taken in the next year.
beware: german law says you are not allowed to take your days when in your employment probation time, but most agencies will let you do.
- mekk0
greece: nevermind..
- Ranger0
There are bank holidays too on top of your annual holiday allowance. Here in Britain we are one of the countries with the least bank holidays within Europe. Which I'm not overly bothered about being a freelancer.
- obsolete0
- yep, and on public holidays you are still getting paid, so here it's 36 days a year.ernexbcn
- I think that's the bare minimum, and most companies are way bettermonospaced
- Canada always surprises me.ohhhhhsnap
- monospaced0
23 vacation days (4 1/2 weeks) + 2 floating holidays + standard national (US) holidays + unlimited sick days
- that's 45 days right there, plus the bonus days around stuff like 4th of Julymonospaced
- d_rek0
Lolllll america...
Fuckin' 10 working days PTO to use for vacation / sick days. What a joke.
Thankfully the company i'm at is pretty flexible with PTO... my direct supervisor rarely makes me use my PTO. If i need to take a personal day for whatever reason he's cool with it, so long as i'm getting done what I need to get done at work.
- that's not some kind of nation-wide stat, btwmonospaced
- I know, 10 PTO is what I get at my current job.d_rek
- bulletfactory0
^ Exactly - on the books I started with 3 weeks PTO plus holidays, but our environment is task/project-driven, not time-driven, so we're very flexible.
- GeorgesII0
I'm in italy, I get 3 weeks paid off,
but unlike my wife I work for myself so it's my money that comes back,if you're lucky and work for a nice big corp, you get la tredicesima e quattordicimila which is a bonus you get during the holyday and at chrismas
- bjladams0
i'm getting ready to go on my first vacation in 3 years. pretty excited about it. there are plenty of days i'm not at the office, small camping trips, or just weekend extensions... and then lots of days that i just go home early to be with the family because it's a sunny day - but this is my first complete break from work (for about 10 days) since i started this studio.