Anyone else dislike holidays?

Australians really love our holidays and/or vacations.

We have 9-10 gazetted public holidays per year, 4 weeks of annual leave and accrue long service leave while working for the same employer until after 10 years we can take an extra 10 weeks of paid leave.

This is how ordinary Australians are able to travel all over our own continent and explore overseas too.
 

Warrigal, Australian labor conditions sound so much better than in the United States! A lot of people get no paid vacations, no paid sick leave or family leave, no medical or other benefits, and on and on (or I should say off and off). I'm glad I'm retired. Actually I stopped working for The Great American Workplace and started my own businesses -- twice. The first one, a secretarial service, grew so fast I could not handle all the work, so I sold it. I can't work 2-1/2 jobs in one 8 hour day, which is what most employers here now demand. It's called "speed-ups". Also, an 8 hour day is pretty much a thing of the past here. We have a great candidate for President -- Bernie Sanders -- who if elected will stop all that workplace abuse.
 
Employees on a casual contract don't receive annual leave or get paid for public holidays not worked but their hourly rate is adjusted by a loading to compensate for these benefits enjoyed by permanent employees. Sick leave might be earned after so many days worked but I'm not sure. It would depend on the industry and the enterprise agreement.

Yes, Synergy, Australian labour conditions are much better because of the work of our unions. Unfortunately fewer and fewer employees bother to join now and don't pay their dues. This has allowed a level of corruption to set in and we have had some judicial inquiries into corrupt practices in the health and building industries recently.

Still, in many ways OZ is the workers' paradise.
 

I was really lucky that my final 10 years working in the US before moving abroad was at a state university. Great benefits. First 5 years I earned 1 day a month vacation plus one personal day, then all the holidays including 6 days at xmas. Sick leave one day a month. When I got to 5 years I earned 1.5 days a month vacation and at 10 you earn 2 days a month. Faculty of course always earned 2 days a month. Since it was TN though the pay was crap, but the cost of living was low.

The UK has very generous holiday/vactions. Even as a clerical temp I earned 20 days a year.

Warrigal, our niece who is a nurse in Melbourne and her husband who is a store manager took 6 weeks off to tour the US. I couldn't believe they could get 6 weeks all at once! Is this typical?
 
Absolutely. Four weeks annual leave plus days off in lieu of paid overtime or penalty rates and six weeks is very achievable.

I took my long service leave of 10 weeks at half pay, stretching it out to 20 weeks plus school and public holidays that fell within my period of leave and was able to go on a world tip, taking 5 months off work.
 
Warrigal said:
Absolutely. Four weeks annual leave plus days off in lieu of paid overtime or penalty rates and six weeks is very achievable.

I took my long service leave of 10 weeks at half pay, stretching it out to 20 weeks plus school and public holidays that fell within my period of leave and was able to go on a world tip, taking 5 months off work.
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That's great!!

Niece and her hubby (then fiance) went to the US when the US dollar and Aussie dollar were about the same, so it was quite a bargain for them. At one point I think the Aussie dollar was actually worth a few cents more than the US.
 
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