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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on February 23, 2017, 05:59:49 pm ---Then you should all be very sorry for poor little us.
We have no holidays at all between Midsummer (24 June) and Xmas (24 Dec)!!!!! :o :o >:( >:(
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I do not feel sorry for Europeans for their lack of time off. So, OK, fewer official holidays. How many vacation days does the average person get?
Last time I checked (I'm not sure I checked Sweden specifically, but still) ... most people got at least four weeks off.
brianr:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 24, 2017, 01:18:46 pm ---I do not feel sorry for Europeans for their lack of time off. So, OK, fewer official holidays. How many vacation days does the average person get?
Last time I checked (I'm not sure I checked Sweden specifically, but still) ... most people got at least four weeks off.
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Both Australia and New Zealand get 4 weeks annual vacation but many people are now casuals and do not get that although they should get paid more to compensate.
In NZ for Public Holidays we get 2 days January, 1 day February, usually 3 days April (unless the 2 days for Easter are in March), 1 day in June, 1 day in October then 2 days at Christmas. Each region gets another day (here in Otago it is March)
However holidays mean little to me. I have not done a day's paid work since 2009. ;D
All my working life as a teacher I got about 11 weeks holiday per year but that included all the public holidays. However I worked long hours in lesson preparation during term time.
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 23, 2017, 07:25:12 pm ---Why should we feel sorry for the people who inflicted Ikea on an unsuspecting world? ;D ;)
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It's very clear to me that you have yet to discover the many blessings of IKEA!
Modern life is impossible without a visit to IKEA at least every two or three years! 8)
--- Quote ---That is awful. No legal holiday from Midsummer Day to Christmas? How do you all stand it? ???
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We don't. That's why we're all depressed from October to around February every year. All of us!!
Our only relief is a trip to IKEA now and then. ;D ::)
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 24, 2017, 01:18:46 pm ---I do not feel sorry for Europeans for their lack of time off. So, OK, fewer official holidays. How many vacation days does the average person get?
Last time I checked (I'm not sure I checked Sweden specifically, but still) ... most people got at least four weeks off.
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I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Sweden everyone gets 25 vacation days a year by law, given that you work a full year.
Depending on your employer and your collective labor agreement, some people get more. I work in public health care, and I got 6 extra days when I turned 40, and another extra day when I turned 50. So I now have 32 days a year, which is maximum for me. No more extra days when I turn 60 :'(
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Sason on February 24, 2017, 02:31:20 pm ---It's very clear to me that you have yet to discover the many blessings of IKEA!
Modern life is impossible without a visit to IKEA at least every two or three years! 8)
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Brainwashing. Clearly brainwashing. ...
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