Sorry, Chuck, I should have explained.
I get 30 days’ leave in addition to the public holidays; the same goes for Nathan’s 35
days’ leave, except that he might have quite a few extra days off work for other reasons, as
I understand it (a couple of years ago EU Commissioner was bemoaning the fact that EU civil servants
can be away from work for up to 61 days).
I think that there might be more US public holidays than the UK’s, but we still get a fair
amount more time off work. In my current job (I’m a civil servant now) I am contracted to
work a 42-hour week (7h 24m per day, plus lunch period). But I frequently work a longer day and
accumulate the hours to take time off in lieu (TOIL). For instance I worked the weekend on a visit
to Soesterberg in the Netherland a few weeks ago, so last week I took 2 days’ TOIL to make up
for it.
Chris
On 16 Oct 15, at 13:45, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why doesn't is sound like such a good deal? 17 holidays + 15 vacation days =
32 days off. You said you get 30. Where's the discrepancy?
I'm not defending B&H against whatever charges they currently face but the
number of days off here is pretty generous for a *small* US company.