I’m a school bus driver who used to be a programmer. My school district has a rule where if you don’t show up the work day before or the work day after a paid holiday (like Labor Day, for one ironic example), you don’t get paid for that holiday. I’ve never encountered a rule like this anywhere I’ve ever worked before, but my fellow drivers are all like “yeah, that’s totally normal”. Apparently they don’t want people turning 3-day weekends into 4- or 5-day weekends, but it’s still all kinds of fucked up abuse of workers.
Meanwhile half my co-workers didn’t show up the day after Philly won the Super Bowl, forcing us to cancel a bunch of bus runs.
That’s a common rule here except that you can use vacation days to extend a long weekend. You just have to be present for the scheduled shift before and after. A vacation day you’re not scheduled so it doesn’t count. However if you book an extra day off from the long weekend and miss your first scheduled shift after your vacation day you lose your holiday pay.
The Danish holiday bonus is not much though. The minimum 1% holiday bonus is paid out because the days that you take off as a salaried employee are worth slightly less than the legal minimum holiday. Had you been paid by the hour, you would get the same without the bonus.
It’s negotiable of course, but personally I’d rather have one of the holiday bonuses from almost any other EU country to be default. For instance Finland gets 50% for resuming work after a holiday and in Belgium they get a full months pay in bonus.
Depending on your union agreement you might get similar things but not by law.
Yes, unions are common, but it depends on the type of work. Not everything is covered by default.
The minimum paid holiday is 5 weeks per year. Work places covered by union agreements usually have an additional week and other types of paid leave. This is given to anyone on the work place regardless of their membership. The agreement is between the employee union and the employer union, not individual members.
what the fuck is a “paid vacation day” even when they’re being ridiculous they don’t know how bad it is
I’m a school bus driver who used to be a programmer. My school district has a rule where if you don’t show up the work day before or the work day after a paid holiday (like Labor Day, for one ironic example), you don’t get paid for that holiday. I’ve never encountered a rule like this anywhere I’ve ever worked before, but my fellow drivers are all like “yeah, that’s totally normal”. Apparently they don’t want people turning 3-day weekends into 4- or 5-day weekends, but it’s still all kinds of fucked up abuse of workers.
Meanwhile half my co-workers didn’t show up the day after Philly won the Super Bowl, forcing us to cancel a bunch of bus runs.
That’s a common rule here except that you can use vacation days to extend a long weekend. You just have to be present for the scheduled shift before and after. A vacation day you’re not scheduled so it doesn’t count. However if you book an extra day off from the long weekend and miss your first scheduled shift after your vacation day you lose your holiday pay.
I’m in one of the few states that mandates PTO, but we only get one hour of PTO for every forty hours worked.
It’s called living in hell
I get paid more during my 6 weeks of vacation, than the rest of the time.
The Danish holiday bonus is not much though. The minimum 1% holiday bonus is paid out because the days that you take off as a salaried employee are worth slightly less than the legal minimum holiday. Had you been paid by the hour, you would get the same without the bonus.
It’s negotiable of course, but personally I’d rather have one of the holiday bonuses from almost any other EU country to be default. For instance Finland gets 50% for resuming work after a holiday and in Belgium they get a full months pay in bonus.
Depending on your union agreement you might get similar things but not by law.
are unions common there?
for non-union employees do they have an equivalent holiday or bonus?
Yes, unions are common, but it depends on the type of work. Not everything is covered by default.
The minimum paid holiday is 5 weeks per year. Work places covered by union agreements usually have an additional week and other types of paid leave. This is given to anyone on the work place regardless of their membership. The agreement is between the employee union and the employer union, not individual members.