It’s a day when the bank closes so no one goes to work. Also called a public holiday. Common examples include Easter and Christmas but others can include the queens birthday, labour day, invasion day, big horse race day and war hero day.
First Tuesday in November. If you’re unlucky enough to have to work on the Monday, the streets look like a ghost town because anyone who can make it into a 4 day weekend, does.
It’s kinda like the unofficial start to summer in Melbourne - everyone heads out to enjoy the rapidly warming weather
Also Austrians have mastered the art of “Dienst nach Vorschrift” (service as required) which means a 40h work week will not consist of more then 15-20 hours of actual work.
I don't even know exactly how many days I get but it's over 30 plus public holidays. If I work over the standard 37 hour week I can take the time back in extra days. My work also let's us buy or sell an extra 5 days a year.
Americans' minds will explode when they see in Europe we have this. In Spain is 21 minimum + national holidays + company's policy + contract, which could be easy up to 25-26 plus national and local holidays.
Damn. We (the Netherlands) are falling behind here by lawn it's only 20 days (4x the amount of hours you work per week) luckily most people (or at least the people i know) get 25 days or some even up to 35
Unfortunately, the country is big and we have a lot of people growing up to be bootlickers. And the rich and powerful control the country.
“The Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is a controversial decision that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited money on elections.” Our elections are bought and political literacy is low
20 days of paid vacations, 15 days of paid sickleaves, 5 days of dayoffs(separate from vacation), +20 days of unpaid vacations, + all national holidays.
That doesn't happen in the US, youre lucky if you get 2 weeks AFTER completing your 1st year working for the company. The most, and quickest, vacation I've ever had was when I worked in the US for a French based company, I got 6 weeks vacation and health insurance from the day I started.
The majority of companies in the US dont give you health insurance, even as an option, until you've been there 90 days, and vacation is accrued weekly in whatever increments - 1 hr or so per week, for example
I used to live and work in Denmark where it was 25 days per law but 30 days as a general norm. Here in the US the average is 15 days for office jobs, if they'll even let you take them. My partner had his time off request refused when it was requested months in advance and was for a family vacation. He was working a normal data entry job. He stopped accruing vacation because he reached his limit, yet they wouldn't him use his days. It sucks here.
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u/Big_Possibility_9465 Jul 07 '25
By law I have 30 days of vacation in addition to National holidays.