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European perspective: Of my legally mandated 4 wks of vacation, I have to take at least one consecutive two-week chunk. Obviously, I as the employee have to pu
by ThePadawan 8y ago
European perspective: Of my legally mandated 4 wks of vacation, I have to take at least one consecutive two-week chunk.
Obviously, I as the employee have to put in the request for that, and it 100% depends on the company if they actually care enough about labor laws to force/enable me to do so.
- cr1895 8y agoReally? Which country mandates that? Or do you mean it's employer-mandated?
- ThePadawan 8y agoThis is Switzerland and part of the OR ("Obligationenrecht"), §329c, paragraph 1 [0] [0] https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19110009/index.html#a329c https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19110009/...
- ystk 8y agoThis is mandated in Article 8 of this ILO convention: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_INSTRUMENT_ID:312277#A8 http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO... http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300:P11300_INSTRUMENT_ID:312277 http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300...
- rffn 8y agoThe law in Germany pretty much states the same.
- dominicr 8y agoSimilar in Norway, where there are times of the year companies basically shutdown or run on minimal staff. In Norway this is July, Italy has similar for August. But ultimately I think it's culture as much as policies. The US, and lesser extent the UK, has a culture of submitting to work over life (as do other countries, so not singling out the US or UK here). In the UK I had to nag people to take holidays and there was usually a holiday crunch at the end of the year when lots of people took time of just because they had to. Whereas, living in Norway now, the Scandinavian ethic of maintaining a good work/life balance means there's not really a problem of people not using all their holidays. Or work much overtime either.