In Sweden everyones entitled to atleast 5 weeks paid time off. Viktor Klang Code Connoisseur www.akkasource.com
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 > -- > 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. > > > > -- > Robert Casto > www.robertcasto.com > > > -- > 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. -- 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.