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

As many as I please.

25 vacation days. Sick days - I can call in sick two days in a row without a doctor's certificate. There's no limit on how often you can do it, but I expect if you do it once a month or so they'd be investigating. I can take up to 4 days of overtime compensation.

Honestly I don't know. :hmm:

I want to say 15.  It's something like this.

365 1/4.

Not sure. I get 4 or 5 weeks vacation, a couple of personal days and about 7-10 sick days. I never use it all, never use all my vacation time, so I just always have plenty of time off available. So I don't worry about time off, and I'm grateful for all that I have allotted to me.

I think I have a total of 22.

3 weeks paid vacation.
I accumulate time over 37.5/week to be use when I please
9 sick days


I can also take 37.5h off that I can make up for later.

I get 26 working days of paid vacation per year. We don't have "sick days" per se - if you are sick, you just call in sick and stay home - but then we are expected to be mature about it, so people don't abuse it.

I probably have about 40 or 50 working days of paid vacation accumulated right now because I rarely use the whole allotment.

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.

5 weeks of paid vacation, with a unpaid optional 6th week. Add to this 4 to 5 week off as compensation for overtime, some of which I get for working on weekend days and early morning hours. I could get the 6th unpaid week and the overtime as extra payments, but I personally prefer the extra days off...

Sick days, do you have more than 10 days do you better start showing a doctors note...

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.

Quote from: DGuller on May 19, 2011, 04:04:19 PM
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?  :lol:

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

I think I have between 30 and 40, all things considered, but I'm not sure.

L.

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.

Marti, when you are sick do you get paid?

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.

a shitload.

Quote from: Grey Fox on May 19, 2011, 04:42:02 PM
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.

Quote from: Martinus on May 19, 2011, 04:11:15 PM

Quote from: DGuller on May 19, 2011, 04:04:19 PM
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?  :lol:

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. 

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

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".  :lol:  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.

Quote from: Zanza2 on May 19, 2011, 01:54:44 PM
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.

- 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.

Like slargos, as many as I choose.

Quote from: Zanza2 on May 19, 2011, 03:30:01 PM
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. :P

Quote from: katmai on May 19, 2011, 08:32:18 PM
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.

6 weeks paid vacation plus an unknown number of overtime days. 2 "care" days for having a child :P 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.

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).

Quote from: Martinus on May 20, 2011, 12:45:45 AM

Quote from: katmai on May 19, 2011, 08:32:18 PM
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.  :)

Quote from: Liep on May 19, 2011, 04:13:39 PM
8 weeks vacation and days off to compensate for overtime, 3 months limit on vacations though.

Where are yuo employed Liep?  :wacko:

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

V

He works on the choo choo!

Quote from: Brazen on May 20, 2011, 03:36:26 AM
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.

Quote from: Brazen on May 20, 2011, 03:36:26 AM
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.

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.)

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.

Quote from: Valdemar on May 20, 2011, 04:28:14 AM
Where are yuo employed Liep?  :wacko:

The part of DSB that actually made money last year.

25 days holiday and about 8 bank holidays.

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