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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 28, 2017, 11:08:07 am ---You must get a lot of them, I bet, hunh? All the Veteran's Day and Presidents' Day types when many of us have to work.
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OTOH, he has to work the day after Thanksgiving, when a lot of us have a holiday and get a four-day weekend.
brianr:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 28, 2017, 11:37:56 am ---
You forgot New Year's Day! Although New Year's Eve is not a holiday and by January 1, many of us are too hung over or tired to really enjoy the holiday. I never got Christmas Eve as a holiday and could have really used it. . .there was so much to do. Most of the time, I spent Xmas Eve running errands on the way home from work in traffic and bad weather. Enough to get a Bah, humbug! out of me.
It is shocking and unethical to not have sick days, because it means that most sick people go to work anyway and infect their coworkers. The Obama administration established some rules against this, I recall, but that will go out the window in the current administration, if it hasn't already. :'(
As a consultant myself, I'm surprised that there are so many people who think that if they have fed you, they have paid you. :P
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I think it is funny that NZ has a public holiday called the Day After New Year's Day. Not in Australia. Of course both countries have Boxing Day holiday (the day after Christmas).
As a teacher I had 23 sick days per year plus another 23 on half pay. 20 of them carried over each year and I rarely had more than 5 in any one year. Unlike Long Service Leave, you are not allowed to be paid out for them when you resign so in my last 3 month's of full time permanent work I took a day every 2nd week (I think I had about 150 so only got rid of about 6 or 7)
Many teachers, especially women had many family days off (they came out of the sick pay) because their kids were sick. I was so pleased when my mother moved house in 1999 and my sister wanted me to help. It was the only time in my whole working life I was able to claim a family day.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 28, 2017, 11:08:07 am ---You must get a lot of them, I bet, hunh? All the Veteran's Day and Presidents' Day types when many of us have to work.
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Yeah, we get a good amount. Here is the banking holiday schedule.
Jan 1st (New Year's Day)
Jan 15th (or so - 3rd Monday in January - Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Feb 15th (or so - 3rd Monday in February - President's Day)
May 28th (or so - Last Monday in May - Memorial Day)
July 4th - Independence Day
August 28th (or so - Last Monday in August, or first in September - Labor Day)
October 11th (or so - Columbus Day)
November 11th (Veteran's Day)
November 23rd (or so, third Thursday in November - Thanksgiving
December 25th - Christmas day.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 28, 2017, 11:39:44 am ---OTOH, he has to work the day after Thanksgiving, when a lot of us have a holiday and get a four-day weekend.
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As I said when I first started at the bank in 97: "I've just spent the last 10 years working on Thanksgiving Day, I'll work the day after!"
I actually like working that day.....most (if not all) of our clients are closed, so I spend the day doing filing, catching up on busy work, and then get to leave by 2:00 - 3:00 instead of the customary 5:00.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 27, 2017, 11:20:14 am ---So the typical entry level worker might get 15 days off a year, and hope not to be sick for many of them. An employee with more experience or a more generous employer might get more like 20-30, but no way is it guaranteed by law. (As you probably know, paid parental leave isn't even guaranteed by law here -- the U.S. being one of three countries in the world, and the only industrialized country, not to require it.)
I've been around long enough that I get five weeks of PTO at one of my jobs. It's a half-time job, so it's five weeks at 25 hours a week, but still, it's a nice little perk. We have to use our PTO days if we want holidays off, but because I work part time I just schedule my hours around them and save the PTO.
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This is how my job works. I get almost 236 PTO hours, this is almost 6 weeks of time. If I don't get sick, I have that full allotment of time as vacation time. Otherwise, if I get sick, it gets deducted from the PTO hours. Ex: I call out sick for three days, 24 hours gets deducted from my total of 236 hours, with the remaining as 'vacation' time.
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