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... you get 11 days (Vacation) and no sick days. We are talking about a "three years employee" here. If you are really sick, you'd better have a medic certificate for that... or else!!
Plus, we work 45 hours a week. Extra hours are not paid in cash. If you do any extra hours, then your manager might consider giving you a day off.
If you work on Sundays, then you have Monday off, usually. That totally sucks because it "splits" your weekend.
Oh, and this is no small company, this is IBM.
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I'm in my 3rd year in this company, I'm getting 3 weeks (15 days) of paid vacation, 11 Holidays and 6 sick days. Most of the companies around here give 2 weeks of vacation, 3 if you've been working at the company for 5 years or more, so I'm getting one extra week of vacation compare to them. (I'll be getting 4 weeks if I work here for 5 years).
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Definitely. Who do you work for? How do I send my resume? 
I have to do 10 years to get the 4th week of vacation, about 250 days to go.
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The wording of the question is very confusing for US readers ... at least the way I interpreted it.
"Holidays" are days off like New Year's Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, etc and generally are about ten days or less per year. As far as I know, none of these days are "statutory" although most are "public" and are traditionally given to everyone. Everywhere else in the world, I believe there is a lot of "holiday" time off that is given by law or custom.
"Vacation" is other time off that we can use at any time we want if the boss approves.
"Sick days" are traditionally separate from either of the above but are increasingly consolidated with your vacation time as "Personal Time Off" (PTO) or something similar.
For me, I get 37 days of PTO per year. They subtract nine days off the top for our holidays. I get to use the remaining 28 days for vacation and any sick days or other time off.
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Earl Truss wrote: For me, I get 37 days of PTO per year. They subtract nine days off the top for our holidays. I get to use the remaining 28 days for vacation and any sick days or other time off.
Had something similar at the previous job. The big downside of lumping sick days and vacation days into "PTO" is that people often come to work sick (in order to save PTO for vacation) and spread diseases around.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Had something similar at the previous job. The big downside of lumping sick days and vacation days into "PTO" is that people often come to work sick (in order to save PTO for vacation) and spread diseases around.
Yes, that always seems like a big disadvantage to me. On the plus side, the company no longer has to monitor whether you really are sick if you take a "sick day". To them, it's just a day off.
In my first job, we got separate vacation and sick days. I was never really sick or just didn't want to use them so at one point I had six months of sick days saved up. One day I came to work and they announced that "sick time" was frozen with no more accural and could not be used until you used up your short-term disability first and that did not kick in until you had been sick for a week which you had to use "vacation" time for. Shortly after that the company reorganized and all the sick time disappeared. They made the change because all that sick time everyone had saved up showed up on the books as a liability but short-term disability did not.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: come to work sick
I do that anyway; if I can get there and be productive, I go. On the other hand, nowadays it's easy enough to work from home.
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Right, no holidays are statutory. The government can't tell a businessman that he must be closed on certain days; especially for religious reasons. The government does set which days it's offices will be closed (even though they may be for religious reasons) and many businessmen choose to follow their lead.
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Where I live (Illinois), car dealerships are prohibited from being open on Sundays. It's state law.
I don't claim to be a know it all, for I know that I am not...
I usually have an answer though.
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however, any oh&s pro will tell you that to trade all your leave for cash is 'unwise', because people need rest/time.. ergo there's usually a limit to which you can trade out - we've had the same thing here in Aus in various awards/agreements etc - usually you trade out down to 40days or something
'g'
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In France, if you work for a company with more than 10 employees, and you work 39 hours/week instead of 35, you get 1 day off every month (you have to spend them during the same year). Which makes in total for 36 days off at least during the year  .
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In Switzerland it is common to work at least 42 hours a week and you get a minimum of 20 days off a year.
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Are they allowed to play games with your time sheet? I mean in the US I work 70 to 90 hours a week but I am a salary employee that is exempt from overtime pay so that no matter what my actual hours are it gets written down as 37.5.
What's even worse is now they are getting more red tape and watching more closely to make sure everyone is working their 37.5 and making sure that vacation time is all being accounted for ... This crap makes me want to turn in my time-sheet with my actual hours.
John
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Actual + Triple Damages my friend. Time card manipulation is a big deal in the States. Personally, in a down economy I would consult an attorney.
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Do it!
Here there is work inspection, and it almost works. In my previous company it was worse (we had fewer than 11 employees, and also worked about 3 hours more than we should) but in the end, it ends up with how much do you fear them.
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If you're salaried, there shouldn't be a time sheet. You should keep one yourself, for your personal records. You also should not be working that many hours, if you're not compensated for it fairly.
Salaried workers who work over 40 hours in a week are entitled to get comp time. Take off the excess time in the near future. I try to do it by leaving a little early, or arriving a little late.
Also, all workers are entitled to lunch time and one break per four hours. As Ennis said, if that's violated, the company owes you triple your hourly rate for time you didn't take the breaks. They are not required to pay for lunch, but, if you're working at your desk and eating lunch, that's not considered "lunch". You are supposed to be free to do whatever you want for half an hour.
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I had just gotten to the three-week level when they laid me off.
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In an ideal world it would not the cracking of the boss' whip that would drive one into taking leave. Rather it would be the inducements of another who would entice one into submitting to a month at Klosters in winter and a month on a yacht off Sardinia in summer.
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.(Pliny)
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hmmm, I get 4 weeks, but take .. well, havnt had a decent break in a few years now - lining up for 6 weeks in Europe in Sept/Oct this year - that still wont put much of a dent in how many days I have accrued !!!
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If I remember correctly everyone in the EU gets a minimum of 20 paid vacation days + statutory public holidays.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open wait long time for roast duck to drop in
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: everyone in the EU gets a minimum of 20 paid vacation days + statutory public holidays
And in Sweden, which is in the EU, we get minimum 25 days (+ statutory public holidays) but overtime pay often gets swapped for another week of vacation.
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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
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So what about us? If I want holidays I can take them when I want but - I don't get paid.
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You can work it into your rates, so that they cover your time off.
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