Plan B Forum

Things we can do right now to make things better:

Become the LAST rich country to have paid vacations and holidays for all workers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... -holidays/



When people have paid time off they do stuff. When they do stuff they spend money. When they spend money it contributes to GDP ergo ... time to have a national standard for paid leave. A good way to stimulate employment too.




Do we get paid vacations and holidays or do we act like the Communists? Well? Well?


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rubato

Self employed people get no paid vacations.

Unionized construction workers long ago traded vacation entitlement for higher hourly wages.

Should this be allowed? Should their rates be reduced by 80/2080 so that they can have two weeks paid vacation? And what about the fact that they are working out of a "hall" and might be working for ten different companies in a year's time? Who has to give them the PTO?

Do teachers get paid vacations? They have to be there when school is in session, but technically if they stay home when the institution is closed, is that vacation?

Has the rubato person ever heard of the concept of "freedom of contract"? It seems not.

When I was working for a French company (then called, "Vivendi"), I asked one of my colleagues how he liked the 35 hour work week. He said that Vivendi liked it so much, they did it twice a week (not much exaggeration).