I would agree with this, and I think I've read about it in more detail in economics terms. If everyone had the choice to work, everyone would be forced to work, just to keep up - a tragedy of the commons type affair.
To answer the original question, I recently was in a job where I would accrue 1.75 days holiday per month (21 per year) with bank holidays bringing that up to ~29 days. I will soon be starting another job where I accrue 2.75 days holiday per month, inclusive of bank holidays, which works out about 33 per year. This is working in the UK. So it seems there are significant variances between employers. When browing interning opportunities in the US, I was also surprised about the holidays given. Also by some of the comments here - is it common for sick days just to be treated as holidays? ~ Graham > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Les Stroud <stroud....@gmail.com> wrote: > As a side note, I have never understood the concept of paid vacation. > > I think it is an artifact of trying to simplify payroll systems and > does not reflect reality. > > I thought it was a result of social progress. In France, paid vacation was > obtained after massive strikes in the mid-1930s, with help from a > worker-friendly government. > > It's a shame that companies can't be flexible enough to let you take > > what you need to take and only pay you for what you work. > > Could be interesting, but it's a slippery slope to everyone just becoming a > contractor. > > Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
