Comment on Micro-retirement
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 week agoNorway here: This isn’t completely right.
We have a right to minimum 20 days off every year, however they’re not paid the first year. Every year, you “earn up” next years vacation. When you switch jobs, the job you’re leaving will typically pay out your outstanding vacation money. To take an example:
- Year 1 (job A): 20 days off (0 paid)
- Year 2 (job A): 20 days off (20 paid by job A)
- Year 3 (job A/B): Switch jobs to job B, get 20 days of pay from job A when leaving. 20 days off (0 paid by job B).
- Year 4 (job B): 20 days off (20 paid by job B).
This effectively means that the only year in your life when you will be without 20 days paid vacation is your first year of employment.
Also, there are some minimum requirements regarding how much vacation you have to take, but you’re not required to take out all 20 days (as your post seemed to indicate).
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Neat info, didn’t know about the first year.
Where did I imply you have to take all vacation days?
I’ve said a proportion, gave and example (two weeks or 10 workadays), and even posted a chart of proportion of people per country that actually use up all their vacation days. Eg a quarter of Norwegian workers don’t use all their vacay days.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No worries :) I think it was
Which made me think you meant “minimum” as in “you must take this amount off”. I understand now that you meant “minimum” as in “employers must allow you to take this much time off”.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Ohh, that makes total sense, but I didn’t figure it out! (Couldn’t see it bcs I wrote it.)
And even with plural in minimums I could have added a few more words in there to make it a bit easier to read anyway.
Communication is hard, I’m abusing Lemmy comments just to maintain my poor skills :) (it kinda helps honestly, at least for some stamina).
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s fun to interact though :) and the graphics were really great! Thanks for posting them :)