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Is there no legal requirement for minimum number of days off?

by vvvv 12y ago

tokenadult 12y ago
Is there no legal requirement for minimum number of days off? It depends on the nature of the employment. A few occupations (notably in banking) have MANDATORY days off. (Forcing bankers in certain categories of jobs to take vacations is a good way to detect long-term embezzlement schemes.) But there are definitely programming jobs in the United States in which the company says, "You can take time off whenever you like," which in practice means "You can take time off whenever the company isn't in crunch time," which ends up meaning never. Freedom of contract and flexibility in working arrangements is the hallmark of the United States economy and indeed is one of the reasons that the United States is as wealthy as it is--people choose the trade-offs they like among many possibilities.
- brown9-2 12y ago
  The banking example you cite are voluntary industry practices or self-regulation, not legally enforced.
amalcon 12y ago
No, there is not.
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whybroke 12y ago
Nope, no minimum vacation time. Also, to save you a few years of surprises, here are some other factoids: there's minimal healthcare, likely to be canceled by the next president minimum wage is the equivalent of 5.33 euros and for waiters its only 1.57euros Payday is not mid month but well after you do the work. You can be fired at anytime without any waring for any reason from most jobs. Frequently a security guard will escort you out of the building. But on the upside: There's a death penalty in 3/5 of the country The notion that the world is 6000 years old is sometimes taught in school. You can buy a gun instantly in most states. We have a per capita GDP almost as high as a northern European country. We may not be socialist. Well, ok, some people say we are so never mind.
brown9-2 12y ago
The US is one of (or the only?) industrialized nations to have no legally mandated amount of paid time off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_time#Statutory_Vacation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_time#Statutory_Vacatio...
rmc 12y ago
Welcome to America! Land of the Free!
robotresearcher 12y ago
Unions get a bad rap, often well deserved, but they were created to solve this problem, among others.

Is there no legal requirement for minimum number of days off?

by vvvv 12y ago

Is there no legal requirement for minimum number of days off?

Is there no legal requirement for minimum number of days off? It depends on the nature of the employment. A few occupations (notably in banking) have MANDATORY days off. (Forcing bankers in certain categories of jobs to take vacations is a good way to detect long-term embezzlement schemes.) But there are definitely programming jobs in the United States in which the company says, "You can take time off whenever you like," which in practice means "You can take time off whenever the company isn't in crunch time," which ends up meaning never. Freedom of contract and flexibility in working arrangements is the hallmark of the United States economy and indeed is one of the reasons that the United States is as wealthy as it is--people choose the trade-offs they like among many possibilities.

brown9-2 12y ago
The banking example you cite are voluntary industry practices or self-regulation, not legally enforced.

amalcon 12y ago

No, there is not.

deleted 12y ago

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whybroke 12y ago

Nope, no minimum vacation time. Also, to save you a few years of surprises, here are some other factoids: there's minimal healthcare, likely to be canceled by the next president minimum wage is the equivalent of 5.33 euros and for waiters its only 1.57euros Payday is not mid month but well after you do the work. You can be fired at anytime without any waring for any reason from most jobs. Frequently a security guard will escort you out of the building. But on the upside: There's a death penalty in 3/5 of the country The notion that the world is 6000 years old is sometimes taught in school. You can buy a gun instantly in most states. We have a per capita GDP almost as high as a northern European country. We may not be socialist. Well, ok, some people say we are so never mind.

brown9-2 12y ago

The US is one of (or the only?) industrialized nations to have no legally mandated amount of paid time off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_time#Statutory_Vacation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_time#Statutory_Vacatio...

rmc 12y ago

Welcome to America! Land of the Free!

robotresearcher 12y ago

Unions get a bad rap, often well deserved, but they were created to solve this problem, among others.