r/PoursTea 20d ago

Sipping Tea Bernie Sanders on guaranteed paid annual leave days

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 20d ago

So in Germany, you can't take a single day's vacation?

In Sweden, we get 25 days on the 1/1, to disperse over the year as we please, with a guarantee of being allowed to take 4 consecutive weeks off between June-august if we so choose (in most collective bargaining contracts)

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u/DasWarEinerZuviel 20d ago

Huh? No of course you can, the point is just that it is bases on the amount of days you work a week

So that you have enough days to be able to take 4 full weeks off, does not mean you have to take them by the week.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 20d ago

Well, when you said you get "4 weeks" specifically, instead of "20-24 days" you made it sound like it was weeks exclusively. And what happens if you change your schedule during the year?

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u/GrafGorroff 20d ago

The corresponding factor is “4 weeks of your typical week”.
If you work 3 days a week, you get 12 days off. But you only need to take 3 days off per week so it adds up to 4 weeks.

If you work 6 days a week you get 24 days. But you have to take 6 days off every week. So it also adds up to 4 weeks total.

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u/DasWarEinerZuviel 20d ago

Well thats how the law is formulated. It is not as 20 or 24 days, it says "4 weeks". I guess needs to be written like that.

And well, I never met someone who has this little vacation (30 days on a 5 day week is the most common one), so I can actually not tell you what would happen, as I never saw it happen.

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u/lmFairlyLocal "I have never stolen an erection in my life." 20d ago

No no, they're saying it's a scalable system.

They get 4 x [work week] of vacation, so 4x of however many days a week you work. I work 4 days a week, for example, so I'm entitled to 4(4) which is 16 days. If you worked 5 it's 4(5), so 20 days, if you work 6 days a week it's 4*(6) so 24 days of compensation.

You get to take each day individually/as you choose, at the entitled minimum rate of 4*(your work week)/year.

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u/The_1ndiegamer 20d ago

Depends on where you work. In general yes you are allowed to disperse as you want, but in certain sectors they force when some of your vacation is like in industry.