Comments on: Your Legal Vacation Days

By: joe

joe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:43:46 +0000

“hahahaha. It is a basic human right to get paid for not working! Wow! You have to love socialists! Dumb!”
In my country i get paid holidays. I can therefore afford to take holidays and i get back to work feeling good and that is why norway is a much more productive country than the US and why our GDP per capita is much higher than yours. In the US you don’t get any paid holidays and yet you laugh. Which one of us is dumb??? Please do tell.

Also, if i get sick, the government will pay for my medical expenses. Yours won’t. Who’s dumb?

In my country, few people live below the poverty line, in yours, more than one in ten.

In my country, i get paid to go to university. In yours, you have to pay a fortune to attend.

And yet you “dispise” (sic) socialism. Who’s dumb?

“FYI that list is almost in order of worst to best economies in the world too.”
Really? Maybe you should read a bit about Norway, perhaps the world’s most ’socialist’ country and let me know if you find any area of economy where the USA leads Norway.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:26:03 +0000

hahahaha

It is a basic human right to get paid for not working! Wow! You have to love socialists! Dumb!

By: holidayBill

holidayBill — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:25:00 +0000

All the USian nahsayers are very quick to regurgitate that the employee should negotiate enough time off, but none provide any stats that is actually happening. In that case I’ll just make some up. The average amount of holidays is 10 + 5 ’sick days’. I think it is tought out by a very cynical misogynist: they do it this way because Aholes have a slighty larger tendency to work themselves to death as more agreeable persons. So over time the population should get nicer. Or overworked people become Aholes because of work…

By: Jemima

Jemima — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:52:54 +0000

“If you can’t negotiate better vacation then you deserve less…”

Typical selfish, looking-no-further-than-your-own-fat-belly-rolls American rubbish.

Get some idea of basic human rights, you cretin.

By: swen

swen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:25:38 +0000

the one regarding switzerland is wrong anyway. they also have national and kantonal (state) holidays. as it varies from state to state it is quite hard to put an overall figure on the country.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:32:28 +0000

I used to work in Luxembourg and got 35 days holiday per annum.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:12:50 +0000

so you want the government even more involved in your daily life? If you can’t negotiate better vacation then you deserve less…

Ever think to hold yourself as worth something and not think of your job as a gift? Write an article about the other crap those governments require of their people… then look at the US.

By: Vegark

Vegark — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:24:56 +0000

To Jason Unger
How can the goverment do anything wrong when it comes to preset vacation rules?

If the limit is exceeded, the employer will prosecute actions against the employee. If you take too little vacation, the employer is forced to send the employee on vacation Its not any more magical than that…

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:01:36 +0000

I have an idea, if your employer doesn’t give you enough time off, quit. No that’s much to risky, lets lets just create a socialist government that regulates buisness until they are all buisness are completely unprofitable. You work hard, you are entitled to getting payed for not working.I dispise the socialist mentality. FYI that list is almost in order of worst to best economies in the world too.

By: Joel - thetreichels.com

Joel - thetreichels.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:11:03 +0000

Technically, the FMLA is a government mandated ability to take time off of work if personally/medically necessary.