Vacations and time offFollow

Yea, 2 weeks minimum. But companies typically do 3 weeks for anything above minimum wage type work and 4 or more weeks after a certain number of years service.

And people wonder why Americans get cranky around the holidays! I work Fer the government (not that one, the shadow government) so we get a decent amount of hollidays. Still not enough though.

American have way too many people like my dad, who never could use all the days off he had.

My dad used to complain that he got so many State holidays while working for Maryland, that it interred with him getting his job done. Even state own Airports don't shut down during holidays and when your facing fulfilling a law that all airports must have an noise abatement plan in place within the dead line passed with the law, you can't afford wasting days at home working on remodeling the house. He always found he had to either use his comp time or lose it.

Which is why it took my parents so long to get the interior walls replace on the first floor, so even my grandkids remember the years of wall studs and jacks that define were walls would be someday.

Maryalnd was the first state to system wide rezone all the land around airports to keep housing developments from being under flight paths. You can also thank us for quieter airplanes. The software my dad wrote became to be used across America at major airports and all Naval Air Stations. Dad sent other employees to NAS Lemoore to do the installation there, having known the nightlife was non existent from the one time he visited us on base.

Dad retired at lease 4 times as he changed careers, before he finally took the time to finish the remodeling projects and started serious work on the family tree and putting all of the vinyl records and 78's on CD's.

He died of boredom when his health force him to live in a nursing home.

If my mother hadn't died 9 years ago, I'm sure he could have just by yelling at C-span prevented the ecomony from failing so government employees wouldn't now have to deal with non paid furloughs.

Stat holidays don't mean restaurants are closed, it just means that the staff get paid more on that day.

Until 1 year or two ago, we had a law in NS that didn't allow any retail operation to open on Sundays. Then common sense finally won through.

Ikea might tell you differently. They were fined for ~ 1/2 million bucks for doing business on a Sunday in France.

There are lots of retail restrictions. In the US, liquor stores and bars are still highly regulated as to days and times that can be open.

Only one grocery store per X amount of people is allowed to open here on Sundays, and I think even then only a limited amount of hours.
Part of it is from Christian values and Sunday being the resting day and part because the government doesn't want small store owners to feel forced to be open 7 days a week.

Although there are/have been plans to change the way it works and to limit the amount of hours a store can be opened per week and allow stores to be open on Sundays.