Took you 4 years to decide to fucking read your contract?
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Lol, it'd be nice if they gave you one to read, but that's generally not the case.
I read mine. My boss sent it to me 2 days before I actually started working there, then he let me work there for a week before actually signing, with all benefits being contractually valid from the day I started, not from the day I signed.
If you never saw your contract, get a lawyer.
We have this information but it's usually pamphlets, not a contract you sign. I haven't ever signed a contract for a job. I've signed things, yeah, like NDAs and stuff or an offer letter, but that's it.
What do you sign when you start your job?
Honestly never heard of no contract, what country is this?
You sign an offer. Then there's a separate pamphlet with benefits they hide in the depths of the supply closet somewhere.
My position is a state position in Europe. Since the specifics of the contract are standardized, and can be found online (theoretically), I didn’t have to sign a contract to start working. I hated it… still do, even if the job is overall good. I only have a piece of paper from HR stating that the state granted me the position.
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Where dafuq it stacks? AFAIK in most of the world it is either paid out in the end of the year or is wasted and goes nowhere.
Where dafuq it stacks?
Jobs for my state's state government, for example, You get an hour of time off for every so many hours worked and they accumulate and are retained indefinitely up to a cap.
California doesn't allow "use it or lose it" vacation policies. Vacation rolls over up to a reasonable amount, which apparently isn't super well defined, but my employers have generally set a limit of 2x annual.
In Austria, vacation days expire two years after the end of the vacation year in which they were created. So you can save up vacation days, but not all of them for four years. You can do things like: go on only two weeks of vacation in year 1, then eight weeks in year 2.
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Employed in the US, I can stack up to 240 hours. After that it's use it or lose it, so I just take a few hours off every week.
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the US labor rights are so bad they have to measure time off in hours 😭
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Depends on the job. Some will let time carry over.... It's pretty rare to carry over for more than a year.... Anon is a dumbass.
Fairly certain it stacks in more western nations than it doesn't. I know a woman in Australia who fucked off for almost a full year after saving up time for a decade.
In Czechia (not sure if by law) you can take half of your days off to thr next year. So, if you had 20 days off a year, you have to use 10 (HAVE to, they don't just fizzle out) you can stack 10 to the next year, so you can have up to 30 a year.
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You're a dumbass if you save your vacation days without inquiring if they stack.
Know your contract. So many people get burned by what they thought they could do, or what they thought their employer couldn’t do, because they don’t know the rules of their employment. General rule of thumb: if it’s not spelled out in the contract that an employee can do a thing, the employee can’t do it. If it’s not spelled out somewhere that an employer can’t do it, you bet your ass they’re gonna try to do it.
This doesn't apply in Australia. It accumulates (as does sick leave and long service leave) and if you don't use it you will start to be asked to start taking it after a couple years.
This reminded me of another stupid person who don’t understand how work works.
If you work 6 hours, you get a 30 minute break. 5 minutes for every hour. This new hire who was on a work program as he was unemployed and didn’t study, thought that meant he had 5 minutes every hour and 30 minutes if he worked a 6 hour shift.
So for every hour he went out for a cig, gone for 5-10 minutes and sometimes 15-20. We had to go get him several times. After a few days he was handed a stern talking to, where he would argue for his understanding of the law. He called the boss a dumb bitch for not knowing how it worked. He never came in the following day.
Makes sense why he was unemployed
Pretty sure they have to give you cash for them when they expire
That used to be true, but many companies moved to Personal Time Off(PTO) instead which doesn't have that requirement. Will vary by state and country, but I can confirm in Florida and Gerogia in the US that it's use it or lose it. No payout necessary, even if laid off.
They do not, unless you have an employment contract that says otherwise.
Hell - here's how fucked up it is - my SO worked in clinic that wasn't open on holidays, but offered no holiday pay, so employees had to use the 10 or 14 vaca days they got to cover their 7 holidays, which they couldn't have worked if they wanted to. 'Ready, able, and willing' is how the law is worded, for salaried employees. But these things are meaningless relics of old times when labor had some power and wasn't just the fleshlight of the rich.
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I actually disagree with this. Then employers can pay employees less and say "well then you should just not take time off". It'll make situations where people cannot afford to take their holidays. If anything, you should just have them automatically waiting in a stack at the end of the year.
Rolling them over would be better, but most full time jobs do cash out your unused PTO onto the last paycheck of the financial year. Some jobs let you roll over a limited amount, and sometimes that amount increases each year.
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Idk what the criteria are, but I dont get paid for unused vacation. Idk if its a salary/hourly thing, paid/unpaid, or maybe state/country labor laws, but its not universal
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