Re: Minimum REQUIRED Vacation Time Around the World. Guess Who is the Loser?
- From: McDuck <wallyDELETEMEMcDuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:19:54 -0400
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:46:32 -0400, Thanatos <atropos@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <bodGk.331777$vn1.257977@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Ed Stasiak" <estasiak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I see the vacation/holiday issue as a moral one and I believe that
control of vacation time (among various other factors related to
employment) ought to be taken completely out of the hands of
employers.
The idea that I should be forced AT ALL to pay you to *not* work is
ridiculous on its face.
A law requiring you to pay your workers during a vacation period
obviously is not ridiculous and is done in most countries. And the
vast majority of employers in the United States pay workers during a
vacation period. Indeed, it is "ridiculous" to claim that paying
people during a vacation period is "ridiculous" (unless you think that
what almost all business do is "ridiculous").
In countries with mandatory vacation time, an employer is not
***forced*** to pay people for "not working" (your term). If an
employer don't like the vacation law, it can go out of business or
move to a country that does not have such a law.
Of course, it is ridiculous to characterize a law requiring a minimum
vacation period as a law forcing an employer to pay an employee for
not working. The law only applies with respect to employees who are
working. Vacation time is simply a mandatory fringe benefit, like
health insurance (which is a mandatory fringe in some countries and in
a couple of US States and is encouraged in the US with Federal tax
benefits).
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