With all the airfare deals going on at the moment, I am wishing I had more leave.
I was wondering how much leave other people get?
I am in the health industry and get 6 weeks (exclusive of sick/carers leave) to do as I please.
How Much Leave Do You Get? [POLL]
gomertose on 29/02/2016 - 16:24
Last edited 29/02/2016 - 16:43
Last edited 29/02/2016 - 16:43
Poll Options
- 98< or =4 weeks
- 204+ to 5 weeks
- 85+ to 6 weeks
- 26+ to 7 weeks
- 17+ to 8 weeks
- 98+ weeks
Comments
APS?
Just 4 :-(
6 weeks defs a government worker.
But we all know their paid work is equivalent to leave as well lol
As a country we really need to get rid of state government as it is worthless and every state just duplicates the same services and systems as every other state. Just need federal and local government. Only problem is what to do with all the worthless State government workers as they wouldn't have a chance in hell of making it in the private sector.
Agreed. Who needs any public hospital - all owned and operated by state governments. Or police forces, all operated at state level, and schools! Surely kids can learn without state operated public schools.
You sir, are a genius! We could cut taxes 50% for those who remain lucky enough not to be sick, a victim of crime or uneducated.
In fact, you might want to head over to Somalia, where you could enjoy the benefits of no worthless state government employees.All handled by Federal or local governments instead of state. Please learn to read my good sir.
@dogboy:
Fair enough.
There is some double up, but probably not that much.
If you moved all the state functions into the Federal sphere, then you could conceivably get rid of the state ministers for those functions, and possibly the top bureaucrats at each department, retaining one to run the show.
But it isn't as if you could disband the police force in all states but one, or all hospitals etc.
The finance manager for NSW Schools (for example) couldn't take on responsibility for another 6 states of school finances - they would still need the people in those six teams to do the work, even though they were now one department.So maybe get rid of a few hundred politicians and top bureaucrats, but there would be little chance for reductions in actual public service delivery.
And the downside is visible already, when you hear the different states bickering over federal funds. The federal attention would see funding and services funnelled to marginal seats, at the expense of those seats held by their political opponents. At least with the federation of states there is a division of pork barrelling between between state and federal.
I work for an American company who has an open leave policy which means we can take as much leave as we like.
Woah.. Which one? Pm me if this is sensitive. Thx.
I've read about this. Apparently it has had a very positive response in regards to employee output.
Looks amazing!
Does anybody take more than 4 weeks?
I have heard in the USA at least, that you "aren't a team player" if you take more leave than a week or two.People don't take as much as they should.
Yes, American culture is a culture of overworkI think this is the substantial downside. My paltry 4 weeks accrue if I don't take them, even if every week is an "emergency" and too busy for leave. I will eventually either take them or get paid out.
If I have "unlimited" leave I get no accrual if it is always too busy to take holidays.@mskeggs: Well I actually legally get 4 weeks accrued per year (payable on resignation) but there's no upper limit.
@juicedpixels: That's good to hear. Although hopefully the pressure not to take AL (and just allow it to payout on resignation) does not take a toll.
On the flip side, if I was higher up and my employees still accrued 4 weeks a year, I'd want them taking that fairly regularly, rather than piling up over 3-5 years to pay on resignatio. That's a huge liability.
I get 4 with the option to salary sacrifice an additional 1 to 12 weeks. I bought an extra 4 this year because of all the stupidly cheap airfares of late. Nothing like a cheap airfare to justify a visit to a country you've never been to before.
23 days leave here (4 weeks + 3 days between Christmas & New Year for free).
4 weeks, but we have forced shutdown over xmas/new year which makes use "lose" about 7-8 days each year.
Can salary sacrifice an additional 2 weeks, as well as pretty much take as much unpaid leave as you like so long as it isn't a blackout period.
4 weeks with chance of forced leave during Xmas - New Year. And they might ask you if you'd like to take leave when they feel like they need to get rid of people's leave. No pressure, just if you'd like to.
officially, 20 days - but with shuffling due to RDOs it becomes 19 days + 13 RDOs plus 1 extra day over Christmas/New Year's.
WTF, there's such a thing as getting more than four weeks leave for anyone but schoolteachers??!
Yeah, I've been in 4-week jobs all my life - though rarely take it. Last year was the first year I've ever taken more than 20 days leave, which bought me back down to only having 35 days accrued at my current job. Am taking 15 days between Jan and June though.
The standard in my work place is 5 weeks paid leave however we have a lot of options like we can take 4 weeks with loading (25% extra to be paid), 6 weeks and 7 weeks with negative loading to be paid when we are taking leave. We also get 10 sick days per year and have the option to apply to take leave without pay!
Standard for us is 4weeks, plus long service which is 1.3 weeks for each year after 5 years til 15 years then 2.2weeks thereafter. Also can take additional couple of days out of sick leave (15 per year) during any forced Christmas shutdown. Can also purchase an additional 2 weeks leave per year by being paid a lower rate for the rest of the year.
Still, I'm just about out of annual leave when I would like to have a couple of weeks in the bank for the so-called rainy day, been taking too many annual leave days lately :)
Single no kids, only work when I need or want to.
Get 5 weeks leave, 18 sick/carers leave and can salary sacrifice up to 8 weeks