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So "instead of" taking an annual vacation, one should limit their work hours to 48 hrs a week, organize their time better, and take up a hobby like knitting. I
by droithomme 11y ago
So "instead of" taking an annual vacation, one should limit their work hours to 48 hrs a week, organize their time better, and take up a hobby like knitting.
I've got a better idea. Keep the vacation and cut work hours down to 40.
- gerbilly 11y ago>I've got a better idea. Keep the vacation and cut work hours down to 40. Pff, more like we should go to 35hrs with mandatory _paid_ overtime and also _increase_ vacation to 6 weeks. And also demand reparations for all the stolen time. (Real pay hasn't increased since 1970.) After that we can talk about taking it further.
- kagamine 11y agoWelcome to Norway except for the bit about reparations, and it's 37.5 hours.
- metachris 11y agoHere in Austria its 38.5hrs, 5 weeks vacation, and in June and December employees receive a doubled monthly salary ("vacation money" and "christmas money").
- varjag 11y agoIf it's anything like Norwegian "christmas money", it's just a tax accounting rule where you pay for it the other 11 months in year.
- kagamine 11y agoStill a huge relief come December, as is holiday money in the summer. It probably works as a huge benefit to the economy too, although I have no evidence to back that assumption.
- darkr 11y ago> Real pay hasn't increased since 1970 It has, it's just been pretty shallow growth. That flatlined in the late 90's. And then fell to 1970's levels in 2008/2009
- adrianN 11y agoI work 37 hours and I think that's too much.