Discussion

Two personal days is not much, I got 32 days this year and they are all gone (this is including holidays). Don't you get special days off for a proper vacation or something?

I think in the US (and Canada) its pretty normal that you just don't get paid the days you don't work.

I get 25 days a year wich is by law when fulltime + 6 days from company (holidays are paid by law), but have a 36 hour contract and work 40 so I can add 4 hours a week wich is about 38 holidays a year

Where do you get your ideas about the US? Some world press must really have it in for us LOL. My husband gets 5 weeks or 25 days off a year plus sick time; he works for a large engineering company. I run my own company so those numbers don't apply to me. But everybody I know gets at least 3 weeks or 15 days off a year plus some sick time - even kids right out of university.

Keep in mind that this is at a professional job. I doubt if those numbers apply to someone who works at MacDonalds.

I get NO guaranteed days off. My job and the people I work for are covered by exceptions in the law etc though.

As my brother is working in Canada as a truckdriver and he only gets paid for the days he works (ie 2 weeks holiday to holland is 2 weeks no pay) and he's says it's normal there.

He works as a truckdriver. So that means it depends what job you do?
In that case I would prefer laws for everyone to be equal (if that's the case). It does exist tho, here it would be illegal (for the employer), no matter what job you are doing.

(btw that line you quoted was intented as 'not sure', I see that came over wrong )

I do get lots of days off, but they're on the school district's schedule, not mine: one week in November, one week in March, two weeks in December/January, about five weeks during the summer, and several holidays over the school year. It would add up to about 11 weeks a year. But it's rare that my holidays coincide with concerts though. Then I have 7 sick days and 2 personal days per year that I wouldn't get penalized for taking off. I didn't use any last year, so they "rolled over" and I have 16 sick days and 2 personal days for this year.

So if I understand it correctly personal days difference with the job you have (of course teacher is exception)??

That wouldn't benifit social/family life wich is also responsibily of the goverment, therefore I would prefer personal holidays to be the same all over (with the normal exceptions).
So when in family all can take holiday the same and equal.

And what about sick-days, what if your more sick then thos days (long-term illnes?), you don't get paid.
We get 1st year illnes 100% salary, 2nd year 70%, and from 3rd year the 70% from Goverment. first 2 years are for employer (sometimes they have insurrances).
What if your sick for +1 year?

Just be 'suddenly' sick then, when you desperately need a (few) day(s) off.

lmao - hope the gown has adequate "butt coverage"