Re: unusual sentence in BrE?

Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Management makes a big deal of encouraging us to take all the leave
we're entitled to...then no matter what dates you ask to take it,
they respond "oh, no, we can't spare you *then*!...that's a very
busy time!"...

Since days can't be carried over from one year to the next, most
long-time employees disappear about mid-November, and even so I've
forfeited days each of the last four years....r

That's apparently not legal in California (and, I think, one or two
other states). Paid vacation is considered part of pay and, once
earned, can't be taken back. (Whenever companies institute "use it or
lose it" policies or put caps on the amount you can carry over, there
are "not applicable in California" notices.) What companies can do
instead is to decree that if you get above a certain amount of unused
vacation you stop earning more. Holidays don't work that way, and at
HP we have a "floating holiday" that each employee gets to designate.
With that one, if you don't use it it goes away.

In what way are other holidays not "floating"? I have six fixed days as holidays (if that's the right number) and another 30 days which I can designate.

--
David
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