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30 working days, with the clear expectation to take all in a given year. In fact, you have to take the legal minimum of 24 days (varies with contractual working

by hef19898 4y ago

30 working days, with the clear expectation to take all in a given year. In fact, you have to take the legal minimum of 24 days (varies with contractual working hours) per year. Employers insist in taking it all, any carry overs show up as outstanding accounts in balance sheets. As an example, you want to take of the week Christmas and New Year, the 25th and 26th are bank holidays as is Jan 1st. This year Dec. 26th was a Monday, so whole week required 4 vacation days. Some years bank holidays fabor employees, other years favor employers.

outcoldman 4y ago
That is really cool! Not sure where you at, but feels like with so much vacation, I would just take 1-2 days every week at summer time, and have only 3-4 working days during summer. Can you do it that way as well?
- Helmut10001 4y ago
  Depends on the exact employer, but nothing speaks against this. Of course, you would have to respect responsebilities and colleagues' holidays.
- Farbklex 4y ago
  Sounds like Germany. At least this is exactly how it works in Germany. And regarding your plan: Depends on the employer but yes it works. I had a colleague who didn't plan to do any big vacation so he just took a day of every friday for months.
  - hef19898 4y ago
    Germany it is. The expectaton sonis that people at least once two weeks in row, not sure if there is something in the labor laws, but I wouldn't be surprised. That's a good thing so, as vacation is there for employees to relax.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Basically all of (at least) Western Europe gets 4-7 weeks of vacation per year, usually in addition to several public holidays.
- devilbunny 4y ago
  Depending on where you work, you might find yourself required to take vacation a full week at a time. My job (in the US) does, because we can only have two people (of 11) on vacation per day, and before the week-at-a-time rule was implemented, certain employees would immediately sign out (nearly) every Monday or Friday of the month, meaning that nobody else could take a full week off.

outcoldman 4y ago

That is really cool! Not sure where you at, but feels like with so much vacation, I would just take 1-2 days every week at summer time, and have only 3-4 working days during summer. Can you do it that way as well?

Helmut10001 4y ago
Depends on the exact employer, but nothing speaks against this. Of course, you would have to respect responsebilities and colleagues' holidays.
Farbklex 4y ago
Sounds like Germany. At least this is exactly how it works in Germany. And regarding your plan: Depends on the employer but yes it works. I had a colleague who didn't plan to do any big vacation so he just took a day of every friday for months.
- hef19898 4y ago
  Germany it is. The expectaton sonis that people at least once two weeks in row, not sure if there is something in the labor laws, but I wouldn't be surprised. That's a good thing so, as vacation is there for employees to relax.
yamtaddle 4y ago
Basically all of (at least) Western Europe gets 4-7 weeks of vacation per year, usually in addition to several public holidays.
devilbunny 4y ago
Depending on where you work, you might find yourself required to take vacation a full week at a time. My job (in the US) does, because we can only have two people (of 11) on vacation per day, and before the week-at-a-time rule was implemented, certain employees would immediately sign out (nearly) every Monday or Friday of the month, meaning that nobody else could take a full week off.