Holidays: How many days off you got a year?
@LightninStrike (5915)
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
October 6, 2008 6:45am CST
I thought about this discussion because the other day I was talking to a Mexican friend. She told me that in Mexico, when you start in a new job you only get like 8 days off a year, and then with experience etc you get more days until you become a let's say, senior employee.
Things are very different here in Spain. The average amount of vacations time is a month. But depending on the activity and the company, it varies a little bit. Some people get 28 days off, which they can add to weekends to make an overall of like 40 days off a year. Other companies just give you 25 days which u gotta take in whole weeks, and then 3 or 4 free availability days.
How is it like in your country? how many vacations days do you enjoy of?
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4 responses
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Oct 08
really? where is that? here holidays must be paid by law. Thank you for your opinion eli.
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@angel_of_charm (4134)
• Philippines
6 Oct 08
oh dang! i think i am not able to last if i was her...i get 2 offs every week...in a month i get 8 offs and in a year i get 36 offs...i get 1.75 day in a month for a leave and 3 days for a sick leave in a month...which really enjoy the most but having just 8 days for an off i know there is no way i can make it
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@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Oct 08
Thank you very much for replying, angel.
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@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
7 Oct 08
My husband and I will get every day off this year, since he is retired, and I am on disability. He just retired (took early retirement because the poor guy's worked hard enough for long enough and deserves a break) and I'm legally blind. We have our writing to bring in an income, and we can do that whenever we want. Life is great for us.
@okwusman1 (2247)
• Abuja, Nigeria
7 Oct 08
my job doesn't allow me to go for vacation, we work 24/7 and we hardly had time to attend to some family issue not to talk about going for vocation!
i have never gone on any vacation!
we are being used and abused
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