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[-] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 83 points 4 weeks ago

Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 weeks ago

American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It's great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn't hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. "Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week." "Go for it."

It's possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.

[-] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago

5 weeks seems like a good minimum to shoot for, yeah. Even with technically "unlimited" vacation, I tended to take 1 week a quarter, 2 in the summer, and then whatever Christmas to New Year's is. I wish I could take more in the Summer of course, but it is what it is.

[-] onlyhall@aussie.zone 10 points 4 weeks ago

aussie here. 4 weeks. required by law.

[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 weeks ago

Nationalised oil probably helps too

[-] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 weeks ago

We don't have oil and we have the same in Denmark. I have 7 weeks paid vacation, and of course free healthcare and education, etc.

[-] whelk@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

Can I come over?

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 weeks ago

No, it is pretty standard European fare.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, well.... Not being founded by insane protochristofascists probably helps?

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago

I dunno, what are we calling the Romans these days?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Well, thry were, at founding, not christofascist.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, but certainly prototyping it by some point.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

They still admitted to appreciating wine and fucking.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago
[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago

I just want you to know that got an audible laugh out of me.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

We have pumpkin seed oil in Austria, and apparently its enough to give us 5 weeks PTO per year, 2 weeks of paid nursing leave and up to 72 sick weeks for a single illness.

[-] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago

Have you considered giving all that profit to one bald man, though? Think of what you're missing out on! 🚀

[-] Ebber@lemmings.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

5 weeks by law in Finland as well

[-] sykaster@feddit.nl 9 points 4 weeks ago

4 weeks by law in the Netherlands, usually the union adds another week to that.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nationalised natural gas probably helps too

j/k am Dutch

[-] borokov@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Same in France. We don't have oil but we have strikes.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

What’s stopping the US from nationalizing its oil and other natural resources?

[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

The needs of the 0.1% outweigh the needs of the peasants.

[-] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago
[-] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

My vacation money usually goes to taxes each year as a Dutch citizen.

It's a sick joke imo. "Here's the money we took from your wage for vacation, but also here are the tax bills that are equal to that amount".

Thanks i hate it.

I'm saving up my own wage for retirement and investing it myself because i have zero trust in these systems. I watched my dad get screwed out of a large part of his retirement money.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'm probably going to move out of Austria in a few months and the one thing that'll take a while to get used to is that in most other European countries you 'only' get 13 wages a year instead of the 14 I'm used to.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

5 weeks

Is this why you guys won't join the EU, because you'll be forced to get humane amounts of leave instead of the pittance you somehow survive on? :P

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