Vacation and time off from work
Jun 16th 2012, 5:20 pm
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
I know this is an old thread but thought this might be interesting to some people - paid vacation and productivity in the Guardian
My son has recently moved to Denver and got a new job which has regular hours as opposed to the very irregular hours he had at Home Depot. However, the downside, he is not eligible for any vacation time for the 1st yr whereas at Home depot even though he was part-time he was able to accrue regular vacation and sick time. He young though and actually having weekends to do things means he is not missing the vacation time yet.
My son has recently moved to Denver and got a new job which has regular hours as opposed to the very irregular hours he had at Home Depot. However, the downside, he is not eligible for any vacation time for the 1st yr whereas at Home depot even though he was part-time he was able to accrue regular vacation and sick time. He young though and actually having weekends to do things means he is not missing the vacation time yet.
Jun 16th 2012, 6:32 pm
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
Nov 15th 2012, 11:37 am
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
Thats really cool to have a good time off from your day to day routine work and that becomes quite easy with the use of simple time off software, like the one we had been using from Replicon, as it has been simple, quick to implement and really eases of some employee time and attendance tracking.
Nov 15th 2012, 1:03 pm
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Nov 15th 2012, 1:10 pm
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
Nov 15th 2012, 1:27 pm
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
Nov 15th 2012, 1:49 pm
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Nov 17th 2012, 10:50 pm
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
Last company I worked for in the UK, I got 22 days holiday a year, worked 10 hours less per week, twice as many bank holidays and I got paid if I had to call in sick (which was rare).
I miss being able to take the odd day or even week off here and there just to do...nothing. I can't do that here.
Nov 18th 2012, 3:10 am
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
I accrue 1 1/4 days PTO a month. That includes sick time. I only get 4 paid bank holidays a year. My company also force us to take 1 day of our PTO for the day after Thanksgiving.
Last company I worked for in the UK, I got 22 days holiday a year, worked 10 hours less per week, twice as many bank holidays and I got paid if I had to call in sick (which was rare).
I miss being able to take the odd day or even week off here and there just to do...nothing. I can't do that here.
Last company I worked for in the UK, I got 22 days holiday a year, worked 10 hours less per week, twice as many bank holidays and I got paid if I had to call in sick (which was rare).
I miss being able to take the odd day or even week off here and there just to do...nothing. I can't do that here.
Nov 18th 2012, 4:01 pm
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Re: Vacation and time off from work
I didn't get any paid vacations when I worked here. My job didn't amount to 40 hours a week, so I got sod all.
In UK I got 6 weeks plus holidays and did 37 hours a week.
In UK I got 6 weeks plus holidays and did 37 hours a week.
