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You're a dumbass if you save your vacation days without inquiring if they stack.
Where dafuq it stacks? AFAIK in most of the world it is either paid out in the end of the year or is wasted and goes nowhere.
Where dafuq it stacks?
Jobs for my state's state government, for example, You get an hour of time off for every so many hours worked and they accumulate and are retained indefinitely up to a cap.
California doesn't allow "use it or lose it" vacation policies. Vacation rolls over up to a reasonable amount, which apparently isn't super well defined, but my employers have generally set a limit of 2x annual.
In Austria, vacation days expire two years after the end of the vacation year in which they were created. So you can save up vacation days, but not all of them for four years. You can do things like: go on only two weeks of vacation in year 1, then eight weeks in year 2.
Employed in the US, I can stack up to 240 hours. After that it's use it or lose it, so I just take a few hours off every week.
hours
the US labor rights are so bad they have to measure time off in hours 😭
Fairly certain it stacks in more western nations than it doesn't. I know a woman in Australia who fucked off for almost a full year after saving up time for a decade.
That would have been the first thing I'd check ... seems standard practice.
Depends on the country you’re from, not an issue in Australia for example
IKR!
seems standard practice
I was like where?? America?
Every time I come on here I just fuckin love Australia more and more
4 weeks vacation 38 hour work week.
I look on at countries in Europe with their 5 or 6 weeks and 35 hour weeks with envy.
But yeah, we (Australia) do have it pretty good in comparison to many other places.
Same in NZ. That would be illegal here. They can force you to take leave, or they can pay you out, but it can't just poof
Yeah. I mean… I kinda sympathize, but yeah. Vacation days disappearing if they go unused for a year is pretty common.
Does Anon think they were the first person to come up with the extended vacation plan? If no, then wouldn’t it make sense to find out why it wasn’t more widespread?
Standard is for your workplace to force you to take a vacation if you build up to much. It should be illegal to remove your vacation.
They can also pay it out as wage instead at the end of the year. It's the standard practice around here if you accumulate above a certain threshold. Nothing gets lost, except that you pay taxes on wages but not on vacation.
This reminded me of another stupid person who don’t understand how work works.
If you work 6 hours, you get a 30 minute break. 5 minutes for every hour. This new hire who was on a work program as he was unemployed and didn’t study, thought that meant he had 5 minutes every hour and 30 minutes if he worked a 6 hour shift.
So for every hour he went out for a cig, gone for 5-10 minutes and sometimes 15-20. We had to go get him several times. After a few days he was handed a stern talking to, where he would argue for his understanding of the law. He called the boss a dumb bitch for not knowing how it worked. He never came in the following day.
Makes sense why he was unemployed
Pretty sure they have to give you cash for them when they expire
That used to be true, but many companies moved to Personal Time Off(PTO) instead which doesn't have that requirement. Will vary by state and country, but I can confirm in Florida and Gerogia in the US that it's use it or lose it. No payout necessary, even if laid off.
They do not, unless you have an employment contract that says otherwise.
Hell - here's how fucked up it is - my SO worked in clinic that wasn't open on holidays, but offered no holiday pay, so employees had to use the 10 or 14 vaca days they got to cover their 7 holidays, which they couldn't have worked if they wanted to. 'Ready, able, and willing' is how the law is worded, for salaried employees. But these things are meaningless relics of old times when labor had some power and wasn't just the fleshlight of the rich.
I actually disagree with this. Then employers can pay employees less and say "well then you should just not take time off". It'll make situations where people cannot afford to take their holidays. If anything, you should just have them automatically waiting in a stack at the end of the year.
Rolling them over would be better, but most full time jobs do cash out your unused PTO onto the last paycheck of the financial year. Some jobs let you roll over a limited amount, and sometimes that amount increases each year.
This doesn't apply in Australia. It accumulates (as does sick leave and long service leave) and if you don't use it you will start to be asked to start taking it after a couple years.
In Brazil you have a month of paid vacation for each worked year and you can't work for more that 2 years without using your vacation time. HR would force you to take your vacation time even if you don't want.
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)?
The European mind cannot comprehend this.
20 working days should be very common mount of available vacation days per year (at least in EU)
Americans:
I probably shouldn’t mention that 20 days is the legal minimum for full-time employment, and that 30 days is the typical amount most people receive. And there are extra days for getting promoted or working 10+ years...
Know your contract. So many people get burned by what they thought they could do, or what they thought their employer couldn’t do, because they don’t know the rules of their employment. General rule of thumb: if it’s not spelled out in the contract that an employee can do a thing, the employee can’t do it. If it’s not spelled out somewhere that an employer can’t do it, you bet your ass they’re gonna try to do it.
as a heads up, if you can save enough money to take a sabbatical, you should. It was the greatest time of my fuckin' life.