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Why would one need to save up vacation days to take a "full paycheck" off? That is one month, so 20 working days? 20 working days should be very common mount of available vacation days per year (at least in EU)?
...stateside standard for private-sector salaried positions is ten working days per year (combined illness/vacation) which begin accruing after a six-month probationary period; some employers increase that to fifteen or twenty days for long-tenured staff after several / many years of continuous employment, but it varies...
...for hourly positions, you're paid only for actual hours worked...
...government positions tend to be much more generous with holidays, vacation, and sick leave, although compensation is typically lower than the private sector; large corporations often fall somewhere between those two extremes...
That's pretty shitty PTO policy you've worked under.
...yep, eight employers over three decades?..pretty sucky but also pretty ubiquitous, and every time you hop jobs you start over from zero again...
You don't get paid out your vacation time?
Oof.
I haven't had that little vacation or PTO with 9 employers over about the same time. Except for my first few years.
Current company does PTO so I negotiated 6 weeks (effectively sick and vacation) plus the 8 holiday days they recognize.