Six weeks of paid vacation in Switzerland?? FOR SURE NOT!

[Swissman]

I am so proud of the Swiss-people!!!

Swiss voters reject 6 weeks paid vacation - Yahoo! News

What would be the result in the U.S.A?? What's your guess?

Swissman

 

[Indiana George]

Bravo ! ! !

 

[Aticus]

I am so proud of the Swiss-people!!!

Swiss voters reject 6 weeks paid vacation - Yahoo! News

What would be the result in the U.S.A?? What's your guess?

Swissman

No guess about it Swissman, rejecting a minimum 6 weeks vacation in this country would be the ruin of corporate America as we know it. My word man, do you expect the people in this country to actually work!? What an unbelievably ridiculous idea.
More money less work that's the current mantra from the lowest paid grunt to the top of the management ladder.

Seriously, I agree with your voters. While I enjoyed my vacation time before I retired having a minimum of six weeks would be a mess. It's so hard getting willing workers in this country now ( at all levels) I can see what might happen. I would not vote for such a thing.

JMHO, Pecos

 

[feralmerril]

Sounds like socalism to me. I was raised in rual 1940s wisconsin in a farming area. Those guys didnt know what even one day off was! I started out working for farmers and then seasonal canning factory jobs. Those jobs paid by the hour , usualy a buck a hour in the late 50s, with NO 1 1/2 X pay a hour over 8 hours, zero benifits. I started working for lockheed in 1965 as a guard and had done mostly bull work prior to that. I couldnt belive the differance. It took me about a year of pinching myself to accept the reality of the wages and benneys! Thats why I worked every drop of ot, and stayed there for 35 years without many days off. I was about the first young guard hired as most before me were retired military or LEO. Most the new hire after me were the newer generation of winers that thought it was hard work etc.

 

[venomballistics]

Sounds like socalism to me. I was raised in rual 1940s wisconsin in a farming area. Those guys didnt know what even one day off was! I started out working for farmers and then seasonal canning factory jobs. Those jobs paid by the hour , usualy a buck a hour in the late 50s, with NO 1 1/2 X pay a hour over 8 hours, zero benifits. I started working for lockheed in 1965 as a guard and had done mostly bull work prior to that. I couldnt belive the differance. It took me about a year of pinching myself to accept the reality of the wages and benneys! Thats why I worked every drop of ot, and stayed there for 35 years without many days off. I was about the first young guard hired as most before me were retired military or LEO. Most the new hire after me were the newer generation of winers that thought it was hard work etc.

tell me about it ... any time spent away from your job was spent working on something

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

6 weeks? I haven't had six weeks in the past 10 years

 

[don95sml]

I actually earned up to 6 weeks vacation after 30 years with the same company. Usually I would take nearly the whole month of December off around the holidays, plus a few days earlier in the year.

 

[Moonman]

I gave up a job with 6 weeks vacation, I retired, now I get 52 weeks.

 

[labworm]

I actually earned up to 6 weeks vacation after 30 years with the same company. Usually I would take nearly the whole month of December off around the holidays, plus a few days earlier in the year.

Me too, it was rough, I took a week every 2 months.

And now that I have retired, no vacation time.

 

[oldRoger]

As far as I know there is no paid vacation mandated under federal law in the United States. Even pay for legal holidays is not mandatory; some people in fact work on those days.
Typically though pay for legal holidays comes to most workers after a certain minimum service time.

Usually an employer feels that paid vacations must be offered to be competitive with other employers.
It is fairly typical to offer two weeks of paid vacation after one full year of service on a job. As you work more years typically you are offered more paid vacation time, so that in some cases you eventually get to 6 weeks after many years of service.

We do have laws concerning wages and hours but these laws typically address the number of hours which can be worked in a day and week (generally 8 hours/day & 40 hours/week, but with many exceptions).

I doubt that a majority could be found in congress to mandate any minimum vacation

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I worked 38 years for old Ma Bell. In 1988 I had 6 weeks vacation time but really didn't want that much time off the job.I retired that year & really didn't know what to do with the time. I organized a small handyman business. Nothing big that a contractor would want, just small jobs around a house. Mostly widows with no husband. Never charged much, just gas money & parts.Helped out a lot of ladies that didn't have much money. Made a lot of good friends that way. Kept my head above water & a little gas in the tank.Took the month of October off to do my hunting & not break the bank.

 

[armadillo]

I was getting 5 weeks a year before I retired. In good conscience, I could not take that much time away from my job, even at day or two at a time.

 

[StatesRightist]

I worked 38 years for old Ma Bell. In 1988 I had 6 weeks vacation time but really didn't want that much time off the job.I retired that year & really didn't know what to do with the time. I organized a small handyman business. Nothing big that a contractor would want, just small jobs around a house. Mostly widows with no husband. Never charged much, just gas money & parts.Helped out a lot of ladies that didn't have much money. Made a lot of good friends that way. Kept my head above water & a little gas in the tank.Took the month of October off to do my hunting & not break the bank.

You are a good man, their are a lot of little ole ladies just barely making it, always has been.

 

[Jeb21]

I have never had more that 2 weeks of vacation.

 

[HAWKEYE10]

I never had more than two weeks vacation until I went to work for Nissan Manufacturing. I got up to where I had four weeks vacation and we always shut down a week for Christmas but that was called holidays. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. My wife retired from Ma Bell and had six weeks vacation. Seems like she was always home. Bell also had 30 and out. She was 17 when they hired her and retired when she was 47. Don

 

[truckemup97]

Being self-employed, I can take all the vacation time I want. I just don't get paid for it.

Swissman, I would like to say it wouldn't happen here, but a lot of things I've said that about in the past have happened recently.

 

[regmag-621]

Perfect result, I am proud of our swiss neighbors.
Germany could learn a lot.
A beat into every union offical face.

Best regards
Paul SWCA #1354 from Germany.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I think the main problem with taking a 6 week vacation is that the office would see that they could get by without you
As Charles Degaulle was quoted: "The cemetaries are filled with indispensible people."

 

[wheelgun28]

I think the main problem with taking a 6 week vacation is that the office would see that they could get by without you
"

That was my dads saying, "if they can live without you for weeks, they dont need you."

He also said that "if they cant live without you for a week, they dont pay you nearly enough!"