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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It's great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn't hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. "Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week." "Go for it."

It's possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

5 weeks seems like a good minimum to shoot for, yeah. Even with technically "unlimited" vacation, I tended to take 1 week a quarter, 2 in the summer, and then whatever Christmas to New Year's is. I wish I could take more in the Summer of course, but it is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

aussie here. 4 weeks. required by law.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Nationalised oil probably helps too

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We don't have oil and we have the same in Denmark. I have 7 weeks paid vacation, and of course free healthcare and education, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You will need to learn the language if you want to stay for longer (like you should). Also, bring your friends and family, it's not easy making new ones.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We have pumpkin seed oil in Austria, and apparently its enough to give us 5 weeks PTO per year, 2 weeks of paid nursing leave and up to 72 sick weeks for a single illness.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Have you considered giving all that profit to one bald man, though? Think of what you're missing out on! 🚀

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, it is pretty standard European fare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, well.... Not being founded by insane protochristofascists probably helps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno, what are we calling the Romans these days?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, thry were, at founding, not christofascist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, but certainly prototyping it by some point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They still admitted to appreciating wine and fucking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I just want you to know that got an audible laugh out of me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

4 weeks by law in the Netherlands, usually the union adds another week to that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nationalised natural gas probably helps too

j/k am Dutch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

5 weeks by law in Finland as well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Same in France. We don't have oil but we have strikes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What’s stopping the US from nationalizing its oil and other natural resources?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The needs of the 0.1% outweigh the needs of the peasants.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

My vacation money usually goes to taxes each year as a Dutch citizen.

It's a sick joke imo. "Here's the money we took from your wage for vacation, but also here are the tax bills that are equal to that amount".

Thanks i hate it.

I'm saving up my own wage for retirement and investing it myself because i have zero trust in these systems. I watched my dad get screwed out of a large part of his retirement money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm probably going to move out of Austria in a few months and the one thing that'll take a while to get used to is that in most other European countries you 'only' get 13 wages a year instead of the 14 I'm used to.