How many days off do you get per year?

[katmai]

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.

But when I can pick and choose jobs to take, the days i decide not to work are my vacation. 

[Valdemar]

8 weeks vacation and days off to compensate for overtime, 3 months limit on vacations though.

Where are yuo employed Liep? 

I'm more in line with Mr Penguin though my 6th week is paid, but subject to a limited timeslot when using it.

V

[katmai]

He works on the choo choo!

[Grey Fox]

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).

Must be a cost cutting measure and the tradition of americans never not coming to work. That seems to have atleast change nowadays. If you are sick, stay home.

[OttoVonBismarck]

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).

I'm a civil servant and our sick days are essentially a vague form of short-term disability payment (we actually have short term disability insurance too, though.) I accrue 13 sick days a year and they carry over infinitely, so right now I have something like 100 days of sick leave banked that I could used all in a row if I wanted.

To try and have some control over it so people don't use them for long vacations, if you're sick more than three consecutive days you're required to get a doctor's note.

I'm familiar with more and more employers around here not having sick days, but instead just letting you call in sick (with pay) whenever you need to "within reason." They typically require a doctor's note for several consecutive sick days in a row, as well. It really makes sense and more and more people who study worker efficiency have found the more generous your sick policy the less likely sick employees are to come into work and make the entire office sick, which has a far greater productivity impact than one person calling off.

[OttoVonBismarck]

My paid time off:

13 sick days
26 vacation days
10 Federal holidays
3 State Holidays that aren't also Federal holidays
+2 any year there is an election (we got holiday pay for primary / general.)

[Caliga]

Although I'm supposed to be 'charged' for sick days, I never have been here.  When I'm sick, which is a rare occurrence, I hook up my laptop at home and always do at least enough work to justify not having to take a sick day.

[Liep]

Where are yuo employed Liep? 

The part of DSB that actually made money last year.

[Sheilbh]

25 days holiday and about 8 bank holidays.

I'm with B.  Never heard of an allowance of sick days.