oh to be in Britain, now that hols are here...

[winterbadger]

From the professional society I belong to:

The office will be closed from 12 noon on 24th Dec and will re-open at 9 a.m. on 4th January.
XXXXX would like to wish all of its members a very happy Christmas and New Year.

From the postgraduate programme I'm enrolled in, emailed this morning:

The XXXXX is now closed for the Christmas Holidays.
We will be back in the office on Wednesday 06 January,
Merry Christmas to you all.

Weekdays my current employer's office is closed in the next two weeks:

25 December and 1 January.

Comments

[easy-living.livejournal.com]

I always tried to get off work from lunchtime on 12/24 through to the beginning of January (1/2 or 1/3), but typically you have to take three days out of your annual leave to achieve that. Of course, when your annual leave is 20 or more days plus sick leave, time-off-in-lieu and public holidays, three days is not such a huge chunk out of it as it would be for a lot of Americans.

[winterbadger]

Of course, when your annual leave is 20 or more days plus sick leave, time-off-in-lieu and public holidays, three days is not such a huge chunk out of it as it would be for a lot of Americans.

Yeah, I was having that conversation with a friend of mine last night. He's an attorney who works in the USG, and he was pretty appalled at my allowance of 17 days combined sick leave and vacation (only achieved after six years continuous employment for my Lords and Masters) plus 9 federal holidays. A good place to add my frequent observation that the US is in a "club " with Bolivia, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, and Suriname as the only countries in North, South, or Central America with *no* mandatory national requirement that employers offer *any* paid time off to their workers. The US is routiinely in the top ten countries ranked by per capita GDP; only two of the others are even (just barely) in the top 100...