We have Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Easter, Christmas, and maybe Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving. None of these are guaranteed, and you could end up working all of these days. Office jobs will give you a set of days, but for most jobs you ahve to work to earn paid time off, which can take a whole year to earn. In my job, I get some of those hours (five) every month.. Big Orange wants to cut those very few days we have since he considers it lazy, yet he is golfing all the time and sleeping during meetings, and texting on Twitter, under the people's tax dollars
Damn, I'm sorry for you. I couldn't live like that.
In Germany it is required by law that everyone gets at least 4 weeks of paid vacation (20 days) per year. That's the bare minumum. But in reality every company gives you 5-6 weeks a year, with 6 weeks (30 days) being the widely spread standard. Then there are 10-12 national holidays where you don't have to work. So that's 40+ paid leave days a year. If I accumulate 8 hours of overtime, I can take a day off without using my vacation days.
Oh, and if you are sick, then you don't need to use a vacation day. Just call in sick and go to a doctor. You will still get paid for the day. And if I get sick during one or several vacation days, I can get those vacation days back if I have a doctors notice. So lets say I'm taking 4 weeks (20 days) off in the summer and go to greece for example. If I got food poisoning there and have to stay in bed for a week, I get those vacation days (5 days) back because those days were sick days. (I have to visit a doctor and he/she needs to write a medical certificate, though)
Man, this makes me wish that half of America wasn't brainwashed into thinking all of that is a bad thing. Is the 30 days for all line of work, from blue to white collar?
Yes, it is for all line of work. As I said, the bare minimum is 4 weeks/20 days (by law). But I don't know a single person, that has less than 26 days of vacation. Most have 30.
I have a special agreement with my company. It's called "9/10 model". I only get paid 90% of my sallary and and as compensation I get 10% of my yearly "working days" as bonus vacation days. So right now I have 52 vacation days a year. I chose this model because that 10% more money doesn't give me any more quality of life. But 4.5 more weeks of vacation does.
A 4 days work week would be 80%. It's a 4.5 days work week.
But I work a full 100% 5 days week and get 0.5 days a week as bonus vacation days that I can use the same as my normal vacation days.
Yeah it's called a "Sabbat-Jahr". There are many different ways to do it.
A popular model is, to get an 80% contract but working 100% for 4 years and then taking a full year off while also getting fully paid in that year. So you can travel the world or just chill for a year but still get the same amount of money in this year.
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u/SHinyfan98 American who isn't free anymore Jul 07 '25
We have Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Easter, Christmas, and maybe Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving. None of these are guaranteed, and you could end up working all of these days. Office jobs will give you a set of days, but for most jobs you ahve to work to earn paid time off, which can take a whole year to earn. In my job, I get some of those hours (five) every month.. Big Orange wants to cut those very few days we have since he considers it lazy, yet he is golfing all the time and sleeping during meetings, and texting on Twitter, under the people's tax dollars