Vacations and time offFollow

I get three weeks vacation a year. That's pretty standard in Canada from what I've seen, although not necessary.

Sorry to baffle you belky. The chart includes what we call "words", some of which say "Guaranteed by Law".

Apparently I got distracted by the pretty pictures.

In countries that treat workers better than ours (read: all) do part-time workers get mandatory time off, too?

Edited, Sep 1st 2010 2:30pm by Belkira

Yet another reason why I'm moving out of the US ASAP.

In UK, yes. It's pro-rata to hours worked. I think that's true of the EU as a whole.

I get the traditional six major holidays off (New Year, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) plus I get three weeks off. Sort of. Actually, I accumulate vacation time throughout the year and cap at three weeks accumulation but I could squeeze a little more time out by taking some whenever I get close to my cap. Oh, and a handful of "personal" days for illness, family emergencies, etc. So I guess it works out to 26-30 days off depending on how the year goes.

I "officially" get eight paid sick days a year, which we are paid for if we don't use them. I don't think that's mandatory or anything, though.

Edited, Sep 1st 2010 2:46pm by Belkira

I think I may be up to four weeks worth of PTO a year(used for both vacations and sick days). Since I work in a business open year round, I don't holidays off, but I do get paid extra if I have to work them. I'm boring, so I tend to work most of them if scheduled, but since I have seniority in my department(by six years over the next most senior person), I could have any or all holidays off if I wanted, though I wouldn't get the extra pay.

I work when I want to make money. I give my full time staff 2 weeks paid vacation plus holidays (labor day, thanksgiving, christmas, new years, and july fourth) and 3 sick days.

Four weeks, use it or lose it, plus eight holidays. Unless I need to take disability for some reason, sick leave and vacation days are all the same thing; it's just a PTO basket that I can use as I see fit.

Pretty much this.

We accrue leave as we go, so it applies to part time workers too. Mine works out to about 28 days a year, but because I am only working about 16 hours a week atm, it builds up prety slowly. (Tho my weekends are already 5 days long so I dont need too many extra hours for a week off).

Also we get paid maternity/paternity leave. I had 8 weeks full pay and 6 weeks unpaid when our boy was born.

Also I 'work' for the health service, so its a bit like being paid to sit around at home reading the interwebz for much of the time anyway.

And I go home when my list is done. So sometimes I,m off by lunchtime, and other times I'm off at 5 or 6 depending on how useless the nursing staff are being that day.

Also, 'The mental health day' is catered to quite well in NZ.

I have never heard that before. Hmm.

Yeah, in Cali the vacation time you've accumulated, however it's calculated, is considered to be earned, same as salary. If you quit or get fired, you get compensated for however much PTO you have accumulated and unused.