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> I cannot believe that the US does not have a federal legislation on annual holidays, but instead leaves it up to the employers to negotiate that with their em
by thearn4 10y ago
> I cannot believe that the US does not have a federal legislation on annual holidays, but instead leaves it up to the employers to negotiate that with their employees.
It's odd considering US federal employees have leave policies that most closely resemble what you see in the rest of the developed world. It's the private sector that seems to be in a race to the bottom in the last few decades.
- cyberferret 10y agoThanks for clarifying the point re: federal government department employees. What are avenues for US based employees to seek arbitration in cases like the OP, where leave entitlements and agreements are abused? What if someone had to take time off to, say, care for a sick family member and they had 'n' days leave owing to them and their employer would not let them take it? Can there be some non legal industrial mediation, or must they take it to court?
- brianwawok 10y agoAnything like this and and you are on the bad side if your work. I.e. no promotion ever. Best bet is to Glassdoor and leave.
- kasey_junk 10y agoMost of those employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements negotiated by a union.
- massysett 10y agoUS federal employees have leave and holiday policies that are set by law. It has nothing to do with anything negotiated by a union. Full-time feds get 10 paid holidays a year, 13 days sick leave with unlimited carryover, and 13, 20, or about 28 days of annual leave (as we call it) depending on years of service. Maximum carry-over on annual leave is 240 hours.
- zacharycohn 10y agoFederal employees accrue 4 hours of paid annual leave per pay period (two weeks) for their first six years of federal service. That comes out to thirteen days a year. After six years, it becomes six hours a pay period. After I think fifteen or seventeen years, it becomes 8 hours. So while federal leave maxes out close to what the rest of the world has, it takes a long time to get there.
- thearn4 10y agoTrue, but I think a key thing for us is that annual leave (which has a carry-over cap) is accrued separately from sick leave (which has no cap). That is, our annual leave is actual bonafide vacation time. In many workplaces in the U.S., employees have no paid sick leave at all.
- bbcbasic 10y agoThat's also by law in Australia. Ten days sick leave. Twenty annual leave.