Tuesday 20Th. Paro General/ Stay Home?

[che]

I have Argentines come here all smiles because of some new benefit Cristina has provided. These are not poor people. They are tax payers.

There is nothing in this world more interesting than human nature combined with economics!

Interesting and time-tested. It's not like the cynical political policies are new ideas. As an astute oberserver of nature wrote, "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

Seems we have reached this point across the world with bureaucrats and politicians only too willing to run us all into the ground. As they say, its a race to the bottom.

 

[citygirl]

Fifs - I have to say it used to be that the employees I managed in Slovakia were off more than the employees here in Argentina but this past year, it's probably been a toss up.

I don't miss overseeing the teams at all - any of them, but esp here. Every so often I get a call from the US offices asking if it's true about some crazy thing here (like the employee quitting, walking out, erasing all the work property on the laptop and they still have to pay him his severance and aguinaldo and notice or the fact that everyone is taking their vacation in January in a really busy time and said they would quit if they had to delay vacations or being PISSED that they only got a 20% raise ) and I remember why I left.

 

[syngirl]

they also get on average 13 feriados a year

Next year they're sticking to the 17 we had this year (some of which were just pure inventions under the banner of it being the bicentenario...)

Here's the dates: basically 1 holiday a month and 2 in March, April, May, June, and December (except that December there's basically 3 since if christmas eve falls during the week most people take from at least noon off that day as well.)

http://www.mininterior.gov.ar/asuntos_politicos_y_alectorales/dinap/feriados.php?idName=asuntos&idNameSubMenu=DiNAP&idNameSubMenuDer=DirNAPFeriados

 

[citygirl]

17 again this year?! Wow, I must have blocked it out !

So let's see, 10 days of vacation, 17 holidays, my employees averaged about 10 days off a year absent for "personal" reasons (sick, etc).

So that's 37 days off or almost 8 weeks. So 10 months of work and you get paid for 13. Not so bad

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

27 days holiday is standard by European standards. In fact, it would be low for German standards were the average is 35 days. The nordics would similar.

 

[katti]

Usually (at least in Belgium) the amount of holidays you get is in relation to the hours you work. If you work 5 days a week 8h, you get 4x that amount (20 days) free. if you only work half time, you get half that much.

And it is true, the 38h working week, the retirement at 60, it is a problem and we all know that the states wont be able to hold on to that, with less young people working, more people over 60, and people living longer every year. This is common knowledge. The only problem is that countries well be completely paralyzed by strikes if the governments touch that (look what happened in France last year), and thats why nothing has been done up to now...

 

[mrporoto]

europe is going to the dogs because of the generous welfare,37hrs working week plus the restrictions/red tape imposed on businesses and everything
that moves or doesn't.O'buma is going the same way,so I read?France has just reduced retirement by a couple of years and some of the Greeks retired
before puberty!!!Lots of British have families that have never worked,money for nothing and the drugs for free,plus housing,council tax,prescriptions,sex change operations,gastric bands and a host of other things you wouldn't believe.The life of the bone idle.