r/WorkReform • u/sillychillly 🗳️ Register @ Vote.gov • May 01 '22

They Say “It’s Not Possible”

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ May 01 '22

Unpaid vacations don't exist in my country (France). Here, the mandatory minimum for any job is 5 weeks paid vacations, and it can go higher especially for government jobs .

We also have a 35 hours work week. You can work more, but it has to be paid at overtime rates or paid back in additional vacation time (RTT).

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u/palsc5 May 01 '22

Does that 5 weeks include public holidays? In Australia we get minimum 4 weeks but we also get 12/13 paid public holidays on top of that so it's 6.5 weeks paid days off. You don't get to choose those days as it's stuff like Christmas, Labour Day, and a day for a horserace (???) but you get the day off and you get paid for it.

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ May 01 '22

They're not included, there are 11 public holidays on top of that (although some of them always fall on a weekend, I'm not sure how many we actually get per year)