Honest question what do businesses do when someone does the former? Hire for the summer only and when the person comes back they lay the other person off?
Well depending on the size of the organisation and the nature of the work. You either hire a temp or balance the team/workload for the vacation time. As an example; in Sweden, it is mandated by law that workers have the right to take 4 consecutive weeks between June 1 and august 31. So as long as the team is no smaller than 3 you should only have to balance or extend time frames for work during this period. Even if the work is qualified.
There is something referred to as a industry vacation here as well. Its when a factory just shuts all production for 4 weeks and everybody goes on vacation at the same time.
Do note, that you don’t have to take 4 of your 5-6 weeks of payed vacation during this time. But you have the right to.
Every year the employer has until first of April to schedule, plan and approve all vacation for the summer.
Hope that helps. If you have more questions I’ll gladly answer them. I’m a union man and have negotiated quite a few vacation plans.
This answered everything thank you! Temps are extremely rare in the US so it makes sense that’s the solution for businesses that can’t afford to close. I think because long term it is more expensive to have temps than just maintain a consistent workforce.
Balance the workload. Usually a lot of people go on a holiday so there is less work for us (IT). Alot of my colleagues like the airconditioning in the office so they stay in.
Not in Europe but similar situation. You either have enough staff in the team, or staff that with similar skills in other teams, that someone can cover them for that period, or you hire a contractor. Also depends how long they’re gone and how urgent things are.
But usually you hire slightly more staff than you need. I mean what if someone gets really sick? What if you suddenly get multiple urgent things? In the down time there’s extra things you can do that aren’t “make new shit” so it’s not like you’re paying people to do nothing.
No, just your job duties are split amongst your team until you get back. The corporate overlords keep churning, even if your parents or child dies. Don’t have enough PTO allocated? Then you’ll get fired.
Living in a country with MANDATORY five weeks vacations and basically unlimited sick timeout (during which you cannot be fired BY LAW) I find extremely alien and disgusting the whole concept of ‘accrued PTO’
How do you guys let your employers do this to you?
Some temps (students) for customer-service jobs, but mostly the work is passed on to colleagues and often… just not done. I used to work for a BtoB ad/communication agency, and August basically didn’t count. “So, this will take 4 months. It’s early June… Expect it early November.”
Out-of-office auto replies typically say: “I’ll be away until [Three weeks later]. For emergencies, contact Colleague. Otherwise, I’ll read your email as soon as I’m back at work and get back to you!”
I actually took my vacation weeks in September, because August in the office was almost a vacation by itself. Everybody was gone, you were just holding the fort in case there was a fire or something.
Honest question what do businesses do when someone does the former? Hire for the summer only and when the person comes back they lay the other person off?
Well depending on the size of the organisation and the nature of the work. You either hire a temp or balance the team/workload for the vacation time. As an example; in Sweden, it is mandated by law that workers have the right to take 4 consecutive weeks between June 1 and august 31. So as long as the team is no smaller than 3 you should only have to balance or extend time frames for work during this period. Even if the work is qualified.
There is something referred to as a industry vacation here as well. Its when a factory just shuts all production for 4 weeks and everybody goes on vacation at the same time.
Do note, that you don’t have to take 4 of your 5-6 weeks of payed vacation during this time. But you have the right to.
Every year the employer has until first of April to schedule, plan and approve all vacation for the summer.
Hope that helps. If you have more questions I’ll gladly answer them. I’m a union man and have negotiated quite a few vacation plans.
This answered everything thank you! Temps are extremely rare in the US so it makes sense that’s the solution for businesses that can’t afford to close. I think because long term it is more expensive to have temps than just maintain a consistent workforce.
Balance the workload. Usually a lot of people go on a holiday so there is less work for us (IT). Alot of my colleagues like the airconditioning in the office so they stay in.
Not in Europe but similar situation. You either have enough staff in the team, or staff that with similar skills in other teams, that someone can cover them for that period, or you hire a contractor. Also depends how long they’re gone and how urgent things are.
But usually you hire slightly more staff than you need. I mean what if someone gets really sick? What if you suddenly get multiple urgent things? In the down time there’s extra things you can do that aren’t “make new shit” so it’s not like you’re paying people to do nothing.
Many companies are closed during 3-4 weeks in summer.
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No, just your job duties are split amongst your team until you get back. The corporate overlords keep churning, even if your parents or child dies. Don’t have enough PTO allocated? Then you’ll get fired.
Living in a country with MANDATORY five weeks vacations and basically unlimited sick timeout (during which you cannot be fired BY LAW) I find extremely alien and disgusting the whole concept of ‘accrued PTO’
How do you guys let your employers do this to you?
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Some temps (students) for customer-service jobs, but mostly the work is passed on to colleagues and often… just not done. I used to work for a BtoB ad/communication agency, and August basically didn’t count. “So, this will take 4 months. It’s early June… Expect it early November.”
Out-of-office auto replies typically say: “I’ll be away until [Three weeks later]. For emergencies, contact Colleague. Otherwise, I’ll read your email as soon as I’m back at work and get back to you!”
I actually took my vacation weeks in September, because August in the office was almost a vacation by itself. Everybody was gone, you were just holding the fort in case there was a fire or something.
Lol no you can’t do that. Many students work during the summer and get a one month contract, or pace is just slower during the summer.
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