Two weeks of vacation after a year of employment. 1 week of sick time after 6 months. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the only two days we’re guaranteed off, but we get double time for working other holidays.
Every minute off counts toward vacation time. That kinda sucks.
I’m guessing two weeks, but I’m not sure, maybe more. I worked at my current job for six years before I got on salary with vacation and benefits, so I’m not eligible for one until next year. I think my time sheet says I have 56 hours of vacation already, plus 56 hours of sick time. We also get paid holidays when the State and the university take theirs. We also close down for the week between Xmas and New Years. The last one was the first time I didn’t lose a week’s pay over Xmas. We also get personal time off. We got an e-mail saying we had to take ours before the end of June, or those hours would go away at the start of the next fiscal year - so I took mine last week.
I have never had a vacation from any job I’ve ever held. It’ll be so strange to have nothing to do for a couple of weeks!
Pretty standard in the various technology fields I’ve worked - 3 weeks to start, increases each year, plus 3-5 days sick leave, plus 6-10 holidays.
Current job I’m up to 6 weeks “PTO” (sick/vacation combined, they don’t care why you’re gone). I accrue 10 hours/pay period, can carry over 100 hours but stop accruing at 150 or 200, and can go 40 in the hole. I think there are 8 or 9 paid holidays. I usually have 80 or so hours on the books.
I don’t get any public holidays. Also weekends don’t count towards my leave. So if I want to take a week off, I need to take 7 days leave, not 5.
With that in consideration I get 42 days leave per year which accrues without limit. I also get 15 days sick leave, which includes carer’s, bereavement, personal illness etc, and also accrues without limit. I think at the moment I have about 150 days of combined vacation/sick leave owing.
42 days sounds like a lot, but it works out to be 6 weeks, which is very close to the standard leave in Australia of 4 weeks plus public holidays (see Cunctator’s post above.)
3 months of “long service” leave is available after you’ve worked for a company for 10 years, or in the case of a South Australian company, you get a pro-rata amount after 7 years. I’ll have been with this company for 7 years in November so I’ll get about 63 days long service leave then.
No paid time off. If I beg, I might be able to not be scheduled to work on a particular day.
French research sector. I get 30 days holiday, plus 12 days in lieu for time worked over the legally permissible maximum working week (I swear I’m under-compensated for that), plus about 19-20 public holidays and days when campus is closed.
25 paid days off. But it will increase once I’ve been there a year. Plus the bank holidays. But I can only call in sick twice, a third time in a year could get me in trouble.
I get 25 days of annual leave, plus eight public holidays. On top of that, the university where I work has “closed days” which are usually the two days following Easter Monday and the days between Christmas and New Year. Their thinking is that since the students are on holiday and they have over 6,000 employees, it’s much easier to just shut up shop completely than have to open buildings for the few people who might want to come in.
Opening those buildings means they would also have to supply cleaning, portering, post and catering staff…so we just get the time off instead.
Believe me, it’s pretty much the only reason I stay here!
Being in retail management, I get 4 weeks paid annual leave, 10 days sick leave, plus about half of the public holidays. Annual leave accrues with no limit- there are people working for the company with over a year’s worth of leave.
We’re supposed to get days off in lieu for public holidays worked, but that never happens.
Working for a major state government, I get:
4 hrs SL each two weeks, no limit on accrual (currently > 2100 hrs built up)
7.7 hrs AL each two weeks, limit 356 hrs in bank at any time
16 bonus hrs AL each year on top of the 7.7 accrual.
12 holidays in odd years, 13 holidays in even years (election day is a holiday)
That works out to 27 days vacation plus SL & holidays per year.
I work a 40 to 42 week year, teaching English. But it’s my own business, so though I take a week or so at Christmas and in the summer, most other days I do something or other towards the job - I can’t ever leave it behind. However when it’s not scheduled classes, I can do what I want, when I want, at the pace I want, so long as I’m ready for the next classes! (or the accountant, or my office lady, or, or or…)
Oh, I never think of mentioning this: unlimited sick leave. If you’re sick for more than one day you need a “baja médica” (and then doc’s permission to go back to work), but if you’re sick you’re sick you’re sick.
Some companies have 2 días de asuntos propios (personal days) which unlike vacation don’t need to be selected in advance; I understand that in Madrid they’re nicknamed “días Navarra” because they were introduced by a Navarrese Minister. Most Navarrese companies don’t have separate d.a.p., but let employees leave several vacation days “unchosen” or let employees leave for “justified errands” (for example, “renew national ID”).
Public sector (but privately funded)- Scientific/Healthcare Research.
26 paid days off (rising to 31 in the next few weeks) per year (in addition to the standard bank holidays).
6 months full-pay sick leave, followed by 3 months half-pay. I’ve been very grateful for the amount of sick-pay on a number of occasions (I’ve had a number of 3-5 month absences due to surgery).
21 days (after 18 years of employment). I also build about 200 hours of comp time a year.
We have to post to a main calendar if we are going to be out of the office for a day or more but taking time off is never a hassle.
Question for the people who get - say - 10 days sick leave on top of their “holiday” leave; do people routinely use these? I’m pretty certain if you told people around here they had an allowance of up to 10 days off sick each year they would make sure they did take 10 days off sick each year. That’s a lot of Monday morning “sickies” 
Also - what happens if you are genuinely sick for more than 10 days?
We get 10 sick days a year, which roll over from one year to the next. If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to retire with over a years worth of sick leave owed, which the district will buy out. We also get 10 leave days a year, which don’t roll over. If you are sick past your accrued number of sick days, you either are off without pay, or can apply for leave from the catastrophic leave bank the union has set up, where other members contribute unused sick days.
Most of us, at least in my observation, only use sick days when they are really “sick.” Mainly because of that whole buy-back idea.
I used to get 5 sick days/year. It was “use it or lose it”, so the last week of December anyone with remaining time took off. The company understood, didn’t discourage it, but only asked that we arrange it so no projects were impacted.
Around here, if you used up all your sick time you had to tap into vacation, I suspect that’s why we did away with the sick/vacation thing and now just have a heap of “time off”.
Unless you’re very seriously ill, of course. Medical leave (short/long term disability? something like that) is a totally different head.
When I’ve had official sick days, it was use it or lose it, but most people didn’t conveniently get sick exactly ten days during the year. There is such a thing as abuse of sick leave and calling in on Mondays is something supervisors would scrutinize.
More than ten days throughout the year–dip into vacation time. More than five business days in a row? Short-term disability.
I used to get sick time like this 10 or so days. But about 6 years ago they decided that exempt employees did not have a set number of sick days but instead could take time off when they were sick. I think they found that people will take all the sick time if it is a specific benefit but if you can take time off when you are sick you just use it when you are sick.
I get 4 weeks vacation (7 years employment, new hires start with 3), 2 floating holidays, 8 company holiday days (Labor Day, Memorial Day, July 4, 2 days Thanksgiving, 2 days Christmas, Jan 1) and 10 days of sick time. I have never used more than 3 sick days a year. Honestly, my company’s generous vacation policy (and fabulous health benefits) are huge factors for staying. It’s amazing that vacation time is rarely negotiable when job hunting.