How many days off do you get per year?

[The Larch]

4 weeks to be taken in full and 8 aditional days to be used individually with limitations. No such thing as sick days or overtime compensation.

[Grey Fox]

Marti, when you are sick do you get paid?

[PDH]

22 days paid vacation, 22 days paid sick per year.  Balances for vacation accrue up to around 350 hours, sick leave can go up to whatever.  Sick leave can also be donated to others - everyone usually has hundreds of hours of sick time.

[Ed Anger]

a shitload.

[Martinus]

Marti, when you are sick do you get paid?

Yes, of course.

I'm on a consultancy agreement (better tax treatment) so it is more of a gentlemen's agreement in my case (meaning I don't abuse it but don't need to produce a medical certificate) but the way it works generally under Polish law is that if you are sick, you need to go to a doctor and get a medical certificate/notice saying you are unable to work for X days (subject to prolongation).

Up to 1 month of this per year is being paid by your employer. If you go over 1 month, the social security insurance system (which is obligatory) takes over, but only pays 80% of your normal salary. After the total of 6 months on a sick leave in any 12 months period, you can be fired (of course I am not talking about someone being a fraud etc., just being genuinely sick). Otherwise, the employer does not pay you (the insurance system does) but has to keep the post for you.

[dps]

I have 24 paid days.  Sick day policy is very liberal; if you stay sick, call in and stay home as long as you think is necessary, without any need for a doctor's note.  You will be charged paid days for the days you're out, however.

That's liberal? 

Well, yeah, very few places are going to just let you lay out indefinately without a doctor's note, and even then, a lot of places will just let you take the legally mandated amount of time for an unpaid leave of absence and fire you if you're not back by then.

I'm not exactly sure how much vacation time I've got.  I know that I've accrued at least a week's worth so far, but it might be more. 

[CountDeMoney]

5 weeks' vacation this year.  Hopefully, I'll be able to use it.

[sbr]

None.  Zero.  Na-da.

This is one of the reasons I didn't join the electrical union here until I really needed to, we get no vacation pay, no sick pay (though that is pretty common in the construction industry here) and no holiday pay.  We do get 4% of our pay withheld and put into a credit union account that we can take back the next month, that is what they call out "vacation pay".    Of course we can't work on the ~7 national holidays, so on May 30th I get an unpaid day off for Memorial Day.

My last job I lost last year I got 4 weeks vacation and 9 holidays per year.

[viper37]

To define "days off" I would include vacation days, sick days, compensation for overtime. I would exclude national holidays.

haven't taken much vacation in the past.  I intend to change, starting next week, I'm taking half of the week of to move a friend in Montreal.

[Tonitrus]

- 30 days (paid, though not really a factor for us).
- Most major national holidays (Christmas, 4th of July, etc.) often include a "family" day beyond the regular holiday day, that adds about roughly 6-7 days off extra.
- We also get national holidays off that most in capitalist industry have to work on (MLK Day, Columbus Day).

Of course, those last two don't apply if you work on shift (though we'd often get comp days for the missed holidays), or are deployed.

[katmai]

Like slargos, as many as I choose.

[Syt]

I have 30 vacation days and can take days off to compensate for overtime, which can add another 10-20 days per year. My boss will usually only allow up to 3 weeks at any one time though.
Sick days don't really exist, same procedure as Syt described.

Yeah, I miss the five extra vacation days I had in Germany. On the other hand, Austria has "a few" more public holidays than Schleswig-Holstein. And I get a 13th+14th salary: Austrian law allows an additional 1/6 of your "normal" annual salary to be paid at reduced rates - companies usually pay once end of May, once end of November ("vacation money" and "christmas money"). And my company pays ca. another full salary in April as bonus. So I'm not complaining much.

[Martinus]

Like slargos, as many as I choose.

If you are not being paid, then these aren't really "vacation days" but "unemployment days".

I can't even imagine working for a business which was not offering paid vacation days.

[Octavian]

6 weeks paid vacation plus an unknown number of overtime days. 2 "care" days for having a child and various public holidays (like today ). If I'm sick I call ind. Don't have to produce a doctors notice and still get paid. Like overtime compensation it's a gentleman's agreement. I get the job done and don't abuse the system and they don't interfere.

Edit: I also have "sick child" days which means I can stay at home for 2 days taking care of my child if's she gets sick and I can't find a sitter. I'am expected to find a sitter ASAP and get back to work however. This right can be denied if work demands it but that's doubtful it's gonna happen at my work.

[Brazen]

I don't get this concept of sick day allocation. Surely you only take days off sick when you're actually, you know, sick? Though I remember in the 80s civil servants used to take the extra days off as they hadn't "used up" their sick days. I don't think that's made its way into the modern world or the private sector over here. I'm on 21 days vacation (I get one day extra each year I'm with the company up to 25).