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Vanguard:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on March 31, 2010, 02:00:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vanguard on March 30, 2010, 08:35:36 pm ---I get 5 weeks + 10 statutory holidays + 1 floating holiday.

This isn't uncommon in the high tech sector.  

I think most high tech companies give 3 weeks for junior people these days.

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I started out with 2 weeks + 10 statutory holidays + 2 floating holidays...

Vacation increase with years in service...  25 years gets you 5 weeks, 30 years gets you 6 weeks.

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Yuck. What industry/company?

HaRuMaN:
Aerospace.

Honeywell

Dartful Dodger:
I start with 5 weeks.
I can carry over 2.5 weeks at the end of the year, but I'll lose anything over that, so I force myself to take 2.5 weeks before I lose them.

For the past 6 years I've never had less than 7.5 weeks for vacation.

Vanguard:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on April 01, 2010, 04:37:46 pm ---Aerospace.

Honeywell

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Ah, yeah.   I worked for GE Aerospace and Lockheed at one time.   Defense contractors aren't as free with their benefits as the commercial sector.

Level42:

--- Quote from: shmokes on April 01, 2010, 04:30:14 pm ---Agreed.  Anybody who thinks it would be nice to have five seven weeks of holiday (plus national holidays) has mental problems.  They must have really low worker productivity rates, and I bet they're a really poor country.

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Ahhh, don't we just love prejudice !

I have 5 weeks, plus I work 38 hours a week instead of 40. In reality I DO work 40 (about) hours a week and get the saved up hours (2 per week) in days around x-mas and new year's. That is like the French reduction of work time (this was created in a time when there were a lot of people out of jobs and meant to create more jobs for them).

In The Netherlands there is a minimum by law, but most people work under a collective agreement between workers and employers in a market branch. F.I. I work for a fire-alarm company, and they fall under the (light) metal branch. The unions and employers unions negotiate the collective agreements. Employers are always free to "do" better than that agreement. F.I. I will get a raise next month of 1.5% while the collective agreement is no raise because of the crisis.

What's bad about having a lot of paid holidays ?

We are also one of the richest countries in the world, so that proves you are wrong. I bet you're just jealous ! :D

We also care more for our fellow people here, we have a reasonable (although already more "Americanized") health-care system that leaves no-one uninsured and over all we have much better social "safety nets" for the less fortunate.

Oh, we also donate 10 times more money per person for good causes then the US.

And all in all, this makes us one of the happiest people in the world (#3):
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/05/world-happiest-places-lifestyle-travel-world-happiest.html

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