by A good enough reason to never live in the US, in my opinion. In my last job I got five weeks and three days paid leave a year. The extra three days were added over a number of years for long term service. After my company got privatized my union could never negotiate the last few days to make it six weeks holiday.Five weeks three days, how can anyone say unions are bad, they served me well? Anyway, what I used to do was take two weeks leave twice a year but take those weeks where there was bank holidays in them. That would free up two days which I could add to my three days to gain an extra week, so what I got in the end was six weeks paid leave a year. As I loved having two weeks off at a time I was always tempted to take two weeks off three times a year, but in the end I went for two
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Five weeks three days, how can anyone say unions are bad, they served me well? Anyway, what I used to do was take two weeks leave twice a year but take those weeks where there was bank holidays in them. That would free up two days which I could add to my three days to gain an extra week, so what I got in the end was six weeks paid leave a year. As I loved having two weeks off at a time I was always tempted to take two weeks off three times a year, but in the end I went for two weeks twice a year plus one week twice a year so that there was more breaks over the year. Kevin Vincent.
