Full title: BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Congress have already signed on to the legislation.
Which is why other Western countries offer the same benefits to part-time employees on a pro-rata basis.
Work 5 days a week? We give you 20 days annual leave.
Only work 3 days? We give you 12 days annual leave.
Both circumstances result in an employee getting 4 weeks of paid leave a year.
We also let people accrue leave across multiple years, so they can take a 12 week vacation after 3 years if they wanted to.
I’ve found quite a lot of places don’t let you accrue leave, but if they don’t carry it over they have to pay you for it instead, so are very eager for you to use all your leave.
It’s a similar thing here in Australia, workplaces actually like well rested employees - it’s almost like they’re more productive!
I tend to only take 2-3 weeks annually, so I organically end up accruing a tonne of time over the years. Some will let you cash out leave over a certain threshold or worst case, it gets paid out in a lump sum when you quit work.
The Finance department don’t like to see too much liability on the balance sheet, so they do try to pester us into taking regular leave. 😅
Tbh, Id much rather have a law force that they use the days. No loopholes, no blackout dates. Everyone, every employee uses them like the mandatory paid lunch.
There is no secret ranking of who didn’t take they rate.
It’s getting December and you ain’t give anybody any time off? Hope you are staffed enough