In Sweden everyones entitled to atleast 5 weeks paid time off.

Viktor Klang
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On Sep 2, 2010, at 22:20, Robert Casto <casto.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In the USA, it is the market that drives companies to give us days off. There 
> are no laws specifically telling companies what they are supposed to offer. 
> It is customary though to give time off in an effort to entice employees to 
> work for them. 
> 
> The problem with switching companies is they make you start all over again 
> with the time off. I've been working for 20 years in IT and still only get 2 
> weeks vacation. Last year I couldn't take any of it because they had me 
> traveling all over the place and I couldn't get things worked out where I 
> could take some time off. I work somewhere else now, but this was just a 
> contributing factor, not the entire reason.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Moandji Ezana <mwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:26 PM, John Stager <john.sta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For Ontario (my province) with get 10 "public" holidays on top of the
> vacation days that you receive from your employer.
> 
> Lots of people have mentioned bank holidays. Isn't it obvious that you don't 
> work on bank holidays (except in certain sectors, I guess)? 
> 
> And not replacing bank holidays that happen during the week-end seems miserly.
> 
> Moandji
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