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Company I retired from (and where my daughter works) gives professional staff 23 days paid vacation/year. In addition they get 7 public holidays plus 3 'floaters'. The company also closes down over the Christmas/New Year period (staff will get charged maybe 2 vacation days for that) and gives staff extra days off around 4th July and Thanksgiving.
The biggest problem was getting staff to take their vacation. I would regularly have to 'order' people to take a couple of days off because they had maxed out.
Things change... when I went from being self employed to being an employee... the big motivating factor was the big company benefit package... well, most of that no longer exists...
Currently... the company HR book says employees max at 200 hours and only 120 hours may be carried forward... my vacation requests last year were denied so I was expecting an 80 hour payout... in my case they unilaterally carried my full 200 hours forward.
With 80 paid out as in the past my vacation hours would have reset allowing me to accrue...
The last 5 years has been one attempted merger/sale after another... makes it hard on staff if they take a time off not knowing if they will have a job when they return...
Sat next to a guy from Australia on the plane the other day. This subject came up. He actually laughed when I told him our vacation situation in the US. I didn't find it so funny.
I have a pretty unique situation. I have a two teared PTO system. While my company offers 10 paid days of PTO (excluding 10 national holidays, lets be honest that doesn't count), since I travel around the states a bit my particular department offers a perk where every 8 nights I spend out of town for work, I get an extra day I can use for time off. I can build up to 10 of these before I max out and have to burn them off in order to build up more. So theoretically I can gain up to 20 day a year and if you factor in national holidays I get 30.
We have comp time that is to be used in the same pay period...
Doesn't really work when putting in 260 hours a month for 4 months straight... hospital construction project with almost 24 hour schedule...
Some are protected by statute... like Registered Nurses in California... unless a true supervisory role with the power to hire and fire... it matter not if base pay is $60 an hour... all overtime is paid and vacation is more closely monitored so that it is used...
Company I retired from (and where my daughter works) gives professional staff 23 days paid vacation/year. In addition they get 7 public holidays plus 3 'floaters'. The company also closes down over the Christmas/New Year period (staff will get charged maybe 2 vacation days for that) and gives staff extra days off around 4th July and Thanksgiving.
The biggest problem was getting staff to take their vacation. I would regularly have to 'order' people to take a couple of days off because they had maxed out.
And of course they spend all the hours at work, too. And yet while they're at work they just fartarse around all day. It is really quite astounding as an Australian with an Australian work ethic to see them spend ten hours at work to do three hours worth of work while we do all our work in a couple of hours and get reprimanded when we ask for more, and reprimanded again when we go home at 5. So frustrating!
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