Comment on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 10 months agoI would guess this varies a ton from place to place as you are legally not obligated to do this in many states. In my situation for example, you have to use vacation for sick days. It’s all one bucket of time. If you’re very lucky your manager may not count a sick day against your paid time off but technically it should count as the same. So if you get sick for 2 days, you usually have to use 2 days of your vacation/paid time off time for the year.
Also in my current place. Your vacation does not roll over. It gets paid out at the end of the year. So if you somehow don’t use the time you’re given they will just pay you as tho you worked all those hours. This is to discourage those from saving their time for like a month long vacation.
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Understandable, just like in the EU each country has their own rules concerning vacation days and PTO, but they’re likely closer to the Dutch rules than the “general” US rules if what I’ve been reading on Lemmy and Reddit.
Luckily this is protected, since paying out days off is taxed at 52% in the Netherlands, so you’d lose half the income for not going on holiday.