Time off in lieu? That's good. I'd love to see an American company try to
cope with a little French in their day. <g> We call it comp time,
compensatory time off. And it is frowned upon by the government because
many if not most employers abuse the hell out of employees who try to use
it.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 1:41 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
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