They also receive on average 30 paid vacation days a year -- the most in Europe.
Paid vacation, sick time, or other fringe benefits?????? Again, does she not understand business.
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It is meant to protect people when they can no longer work, not give them decades of paid vacation.
Their contracts obliged them to stay in Afghanistan for six-month periods, after which they received a month of paid vacation.
So parents who are lucky enough to have sick leave and paid vacation, like me, wind up using it all up.
This is in stark contrast to Europe where the European Union mandates that workers be provided with 20 paid vacation days every year.
According to the military, every service member gets 30 days paid vacation annually, many allowances are tax-exempt, members receivediscounts for childcare, vacations, etc.
After all, these ambitious go-getters are working as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and advertising executives, blessed with great salaries, health benefits, and paid vacation.
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not legally require workers to be provided a set number of paid vacation days.
Unlike the NFL, where teams can break their end of the deal by releasing a player, in baseball getting released is akin to a paid vacation.
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Furthermore, Kramer believes that the dissatisfaction derived from the work-life trade-offs may also be eased by company-supported flexible work policies, including paid vacation, flexible work arrangements or telecommuting and compressed workweeks.
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But employers in the United States are not obligated under federal law to offer any paid vacation, so about a quarter of all American workers don't have access to it, government figures show.
The data was compiled by surveying hourly wages in 14 different professions, taking into account working hours, paid vacation and legal holidays, and converting them into American dollars over six weeks between early March and mid-April 2009.
Germany is among more than two dozen industrialized countries -- from Australia to Slovenia to Japan -- that require employers to offer four weeks or more of paid vacation to their workers, according to a 2009 study by the human resources consulting company Mercer.
"I could have billed the time and paid for my vacation, " he deadpans.
The struggle to find balance is often more challenging for low-income parents, who are more likely to have jobs with little flexibility, face mandatory overtime and unpredictable work hours and lack critical benefits like paid sick and vacation leave.
The SEIU has organized immigrants in cities including Houston and Los Angeles with the promise of wage increases, paid personal days and vacation.
There's profit sharing, too, plus the 67 paid holidays during the current four-year contract, exclusive of vacation time.
In February international publicity forced a hotel, the Mangrove Tree Resort World in Hainan, a southern vacation island, to close a casino bar for guests that paid out winnings in tokens that could be redeemed for hotel rooms and spent in resort shops.
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Ali Ghiran-Majeed, recently told CNN that some of his soldiers don't even get paid, and that on any given day one quarter of the force is on vacation.
Affected employees of the Silkroute Holdings Internet company were told they could take paid time off to sort out alternative care for their children without having to use up their vacation.
Before making his statement in Parliament, Brown paid tribute to the 37 British troops who had been killed in Afghanistan during the lawmakers' summer vacation, naming each individually.
Although some individual companies offer a paid maternity leave benefit, many parents end up using a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, personal days and unpaid family leave.
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