That would have been the first thing I'd check ... seems standard practice.
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Depends on the country you’re from, not an issue in Australia for example
IKR!
seems standard practice
I was like where?? America?
Every time I come on here I just fuckin love Australia more and more
Same in NZ. That would be illegal here. They can force you to take leave, or they can pay you out, but it can't just poof
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Yeah. I mean… I kinda sympathize, but yeah. Vacation days disappearing if they go unused for a year is pretty common.
Does Anon think they were the first person to come up with the extended vacation plan? If no, then wouldn’t it make sense to find out why it wasn’t more widespread?
I had to take three separate 4 week vacations one year since my company was switching to a max accrual so I had to get below the mx by years end.
Standard is for your workplace to force you to take a vacation if you build up to much. It should be illegal to remove your vacation.
They can also pay it out as wage instead at the end of the year. It's the standard practice around here if you accumulate above a certain threshold. Nothing gets lost, except that you pay taxes on wages but not on vacation.
Telling you to use it or lose it is essentially forcing you.
Yeah but theres a huge difference between being forced to use it (and still getting paid vacation) and losing it(no vacation and no pay).
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Vacation days disappearing if they go unused for a year is pretty common.
What?? Where?
I can use them only through march of the following year in Germany
wow that sucks :O
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Yeah, America. And you should love Australia. It’s getting increasingly fucked up here.
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Why would one need to save up vacation days to take a "full paycheck" off? That is one month, so 20 working days? 20 working days should be very common mount of available vacation days per year (at least in EU)?
The European mind cannot comprehend this.
Flexing on us with that parenthetical statement
A full paycheck for an extended period contains many paychecks.
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They didn't notice getting paid out for all of their vacation days?
I'm guessing it was USA and they were just lost.
They just get lost in the UK too, most places seem pretty good about making sure you take them though.
At the first full time job I had in Oz there were a bunch of old dudes who had each accrued over a year in untaken annual leave. The company had to crack down on it and make them start taking it because it was a huge liability, both financially and as a risk to actually getting work done. They had to develop plans for them to take it a couple months at a time.
Gosh, I'm quite shocked at the UK. They are not ally pretty good for workers rights.
The worker in Australia may have accrued long service leave. It's a seperate entitlement that means younger 3 months leave at once,.on top of holiday entitlement, after working somewhere for 10 years.
Older contracts and union deals can be quite good in the UK. I would bet if this company doesn’t have a union that newer employees would be limited in the number of days they can transfer to the next year, likely less than a week.
Yeah the company I worked for let you shift 5 but you had to take them within the first 3 months
No no, this was multiple old guys and in addition to long service leave, they just never took leave.
For the UK I think the policy is in support of worker rights, in a round about kind of way. If you let people pay it out then they might never take leave and won't get the benefits of actually having had a break from work.
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If I got paid out for my vacations, I would not take my vacations ever. Probably a good thing they don’t pay them out.
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Many places don't pay them out - use or lose.
That's fucked up
'Murica
as a heads up, if you can save enough money to take a sabbatical, you should. It was the greatest time of my fuckin' life.
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Not fuck life. Fuck your boss
Both. Both is good.
Not my preferred way of getting promotion
But a time-honored one
That’s something that isn’t even guaranteed by law in Germany. But it’s part of the contract very often (with restrictions like the company can make you take your vacation days and such). So yes, check first before you start „saving“.
Afaik by law vacation days never expire in Germany, except if the employer explicitly tells you they do. So yeah, check your contract. But if the contract doesn't mention it, and you did not get a written warning, your unused vacation days are usable forever.
My contract explicitly states that they don’t expire. So I never had to check the law and just assumed it’s the other way round. 🙂
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Dumb bass