taking more than 2 weeks for a single vacation

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by wilfy
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Did an American company buy it......we always had trouble if they bought one of the English companies my hubby worked for....
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I've worked for the same company for nearly the past 25 years, and it's gone thru various owners, All american until the last 'un. Never had much problem with requesting 3 weeks. But now head office of our co is English, but the parent company is a French/American <s>congolera</s> <s>conglermerate</s> <s>conglomorate</s> huge company.
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My husband only worked for two companies in the UK..but tons of new owners......we thought that would stop when we moved here...and then weeks before we moved they had a buy out......Lucent who ran the company into the ground before we had a buy back..its now doing well again.....the only problem I see is getting workers to move to the Cape....the houses cost to much......

[fiona]

We take 3 week holidays over the Christmas period as we have shut-down for 10 days then so it is the easiest time of year for Chris to be away from the office. Our staff have to have permission to take holidays of more than 2 weeks and with only 30 employees in 2 depots we have to ensure none of us (apart from Chris and I of course) are off at the same time!

When I worked at the BBC they were always very accommodating about holidays and the worst employer was Helena Rubinstein where our Marketing Director would ban us from taking holiday if she felt like it, and kick up a right stink about anyone having any time off, so you couldn't possibly book a holiday without checking with her first.

[kaysvacationvilla]

You are so lucky. Most Americans don't get 3 weeks off in year never mind taking it all at once. My husband is lucky that he has 4 weeks vacation a year. He usually only takes one week at a time and would have a hard time taking 2 weeks off at once.

What is the average vacation time for a UK employee per year?

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by kaysvacationvilla
You are so lucky. Most Americans don't get 3 weeks off in year never mind taking it all at once. My husband is lucky that he has 4 weeks vacation a year. He usually only takes one week at a time and would have a hard time taking 2 weeks off at once.

What is the average vacation time for a UK employee per year?
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My hubby had 8 weeks in the UK....before he moved up in the company he had 5..plus 2 weeks paid sick...which he always used....he gets 5 weeks in the USA..plus thanksgiving etc...plus 3 floating days.....

The lack of holidays hit the brits working over here.....most I know of get 2 weeks....3 if lucky....

[LesleyB]

We both work for the same company and it is now written in our terms and conditions that we have to have written permission to take more than two weeks holiday at a time. This permission is regularly refused by line managers. We have an added problem in that Stuart is an accountant (well someone has to be!) and because of monthly/quarterly/annual deadlines can only book certain dates each month, which restricts us to two weeks out of four. The only time we can legitimately get more time off is at Christmas when there is a shutdown between Christmas and New Year - and we are going for Christmas this year (hurray!!). We tried to book Christmas 2004, but my (now) ex-boss pulled rank and refused my written request - because she wanted Christmas off herself!! All good fun.

[Ray&Sarah]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by kaysvacationvilla
You are so lucky. Most Americans don't get 3 weeks off in year never mind taking it all at once. My husband is lucky that he has 4 weeks vacation a year. He usually only takes one week at a time and would have a hard time taking 2 weeks off at once.

What is the average vacation time for a UK employee per year?
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Both Ray & I (and we work for different companies) get 5 weeks holiday plus the 8 bank holidays, so 33 days in all.[msnsmile]

[wilfy]

I'm amongst the lucky ones, 6 weeks + bank holidays. But no shutdowns. And i have to do on-call, which works out 1 in every 3 weeks. The other 2 guys i work with are very accomodting with this. They don't tend to take 3 week breaks but more 1 week, 'i found this 7 night stay in the canaries for 20p' type of vaction.

[Sally D]

Looks like my husband is lucky then. 3 weeks in August, 2 weeks at christmas and 2 weeks at easter. He is an instructor and works in 6 week blocks and gets every 6th week off. Often his 6th week is tagged onto his summer, christmas or easter holiday so making it even longer. Somehow he has managed to get another 2 weeks off in October when we go to florida[msnsmile2].

[fiona]

Our company gives 20 days (of which they keep 3 for the Christmas shutdown) + bank holidays, after 5 years they get 20 + 3 and after 10 years they get 22 + 3. We can never take Easter holidays as Chris has the year end then and has to prepare everything for the accountant's audit. Funnily enough when I worked for an American firm (Johnson & Johnson) they were generous with their holiday entitlement, but I guess they have to go with the flow in different countries. I can still remember when 3 weeks a year was standard and being amazed at the BBC where we got 5 weeks. There is now a government minimum regarding holiday entitlement, I think it is 4 weeks a year, you know how they like being generous with our (the bosses) money[msnwink], but what really gets me going is all the paperwork we keep getting, told to go on courses etc and nearly all of it is what we already do anyway[msnmad]. And if the EU want to enforce our working hours we will be in for fun and games with even more recording of hours worked[V].

[SunLover]

For us, the nice thing about being self employed is the freedom to take vacations as and when you like.

The bad part is not being able to pay yourself when you take them !