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Mandatory Paid Vacations?

Started by Lloyd Danforth, May 22, 2009, 05:40 AM NHFT

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Lloyd Danforth

May 22, 2009, 05:40 AM NHFT
I've never had a paid vacation or for that matter a paid day off.  I can only think that proposing this kind of legislation in this economy must be some kind of dis-stimulation package.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22794.html

'The bill would require companies with more than 100 employees to offer a week of paid vacation for both full-time and part-time employees after they've put in a year on the job. Three years after the effective date of the law, those same companies would be required to provide two weeks of paid vacation, and companies with 50 or more employees would have to provide one week.'


Pat McCotter

#1
May 22, 2009, 06:08 AM NHFT
Union benefits come with those union dues, don'cha know.

doobie

#2
May 22, 2009, 06:41 AM NHFT
Soon companies won't be able to lay off/fire/terminate an employee for poor behavior, it'll be considered discriminatory.  And if they don't get an raise like everyone else, discriminatory!

Ogre

#3
May 22, 2009, 08:18 AM NHFT
We are The Union of America Socialist Republics (UASR), we just won't admit it.

Zefferon

#4
May 22, 2009, 08:50 PM NHFT
It will be another double standard. Companies that are part of the "inner circle" will ignore it, as they ignore the current laws. But small businesses, depending on their "connections", will get stomped by it. It's another piece of the mechanism to gradually get rid of small businesses.

Coconut

#5
May 22, 2009, 09:23 PM NHFT
Hmm...

My company has 25 employees, and we get 2 weeks a year, plus 2 sick days. Without the government telling them to.

Fluff and Stuff

#6
May 22, 2009, 09:59 PM NHFT
Quote from: Coconut on May 22, 2009, 09:23 PM NHFT
Hmm...

My company has 25 employees, and we get 2 weeks a year, plus 2 sick days. Without the government telling them to.

At my old job I had 3 weeks vacation, 7 sick days, 3 other days and 7 holidays.  Plus they let us take up to 2 weeks unpaid off a year.  Some people had worked there longer and got 4 weeks vacation.  That was a non-union job.  I've heard of union and/or government workers that had it even better.

Enough of that.  Such a law would be nuts.  It would be a law that you would expect in Europe.  Of course, jobs in Europe tend to pay a lot less than in the US.  Not to mention that Europe has higher unemployment and a worse economy than the US. 

John Edward Mercier

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May 23, 2009, 03:19 AM NHFT
Quote from: Zefferon on May 22, 2009, 08:50 PM NHFT
It will be another double standard. Companies that are part of the "inner circle" will ignore it, as they ignore the current laws. But small businesses, depending on their "connections", will get stomped by it. It's another piece of the mechanism to gradually get rid of small businesses.

How if companies smaller than 50 employees wouldn't even be touched?

Lloyd Danforth

#8
May 23, 2009, 05:02 AM NHFT
Up until recently, the Stanadyne Corporation in Windsor, Ct, non union, gave 5 paid weeks vacation for employees over 20 years.

AntonLee

#9
May 23, 2009, 05:14 AM NHFT
doesn't help me any. . . nor would I want it to.

Lloyd Danforth

#10
May 23, 2009, 05:20 AM NHFT
Don't take it so personal :P

Otosan

#11
May 24, 2009, 06:09 PM NHFT
Want be any problem.....in a few yrs there will be no companies in the USA ... (IMHO).... :P

Russell Kanning

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May 24, 2009, 06:25 PM NHFT
i used to hint to my old bosses that they need to send me on an unplanned paid vacation

it is a great way to catch accountants cheating ... they can't cover their bases when they suddenly are shown the door and sent on a long trip

i could never get them to go for it
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