Reply #19: there is federally mandated time off [View All]

[pitohui]

my husband works for a small company, believe you me, he doesn't get anything that is not mandated by federal law

there are a certain (very small) number of federal holidays, one of them we don't get because the feds allow us to take mardi gras instead, we don't get mardi gras AND memorial day both -- but if he is called out on these federal holidays then he is paid double time including the commute to the job site

there are also 2 weeks (10 days) of paid vacation time ea. year

you can't store these up over the years and then take off a year or six months of sabbatical like academics do, you've got use it or lose it, so it would be stupid to throw these days away and no one respects a stupid employee

indeed, as i said above, if an employee NEVER takes a day off, this is supposed to be a warning sign of a problem being covered up

i've heard of employees storing vacation days for years(but not at my husband's employer) and then taking very long trips, but i've also heard of changes in co. policy and some of those folks just losing the vacation time they didn't take from past years, all in all, it seems most unwise to try to put off a vacation for more than a year, use it by the end of each year, pretty easy, most years end in the christmas and new years holidays so if you haven't yet used your holiday use it then to see your family, that's what practically everyone does at his company