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Likes: Just curious. How much paid vacation do you get a year. From what I hear, other countries tend to get more than we do here in the U.S.
I get two weeks plus five paid holidays.
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Just curious. How much paid vacation do you get a year. From what I hear, other countries tend to get more than we do here in the U.S.
I get two weeks plus five paid holidays.
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It varies depending on length of employment; anywhere between 1 week to 4 weeks.Originally Posted by gwaddle
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I get 2. I think I am supposed to get 3 next year for 15 years of service, if they don't find a way to screw me out of that. I don't consider it vacation since without sick or personal days my hours get used up a few at a time over the course of the year. Paid holidays are New Years, Good Friday, Memorial Day, The 4th of July, Labor Day, 2 at Thanksgiving and 2 at Christmas. Pretty sure the folks in England don't celebrate the 4th. Not sure why.
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I think I get 2 or 3 weeks Paid Annual Leave per year + Paid Personal Leave. Not sure how many days per year we get.
That may or may not differ by employer though.
Maybe we should stop whining here in the UK, I get 26 days plus public holidays (New Years day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Mayday, Whitsun, August bank holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day)
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4 weeks (20 years service), most of the core US holidays (however, service has to cover some days the rest of the company gets off), 2-3 floating days, and sick time accrues throughout the year. Very happy with our benefits. Emujo
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I'm up to 3 weeks paid vacation a year, plus I get 5 paid personal days a year. The unused personal days can be carried over into the next year, for a maximum of 20.
Vacation, what's vacation? Officially its two weeks plus an additional two weeks sick leave. In actuality, it's ends up being a half day or a day here and there. Sick leave gets chewed a couple of hours at a time by doctor visits. Used to take two weeks years for annual training with the Army Reserves.
Down our way,
4 weeks holiday leave (accrued at 3.07 hours per week)
+ 10 paid public holidays
New years Day
Australia Day
Labour Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Anzac Day
Queens Birthday
Melbourne Cup Day
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
(personally I think we need something between the Queens birthday and the Melbourne cup the gap is too long and you forget how to take a day off)
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I can confirm. Not enough Public Holidays in the 2nd half of the year. Labour Day was moved to October to help rectify that.
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