Sure kinda like the 5 vs 6 weeks of vacation depending on if you're hourly or salary and the 8 weeks depending on if you're working for the government, your age, the company, etc. Getting into the weeds like that when I'm comparing to the US where most people only take/get two weeks. I had a job in the US where I just didn't show up between Christmas and New Years, since why would anyone, and they thought I was not taking the job seriously.
I don't agree that this is getting into the weeds of it.
You wrote 5-8 weeks of vacation. Which is correct enough. 25 days minimum is in the law.
But getting a klämdag is not in the law. So it is not always the case.
So I think there's a difference, and was worth pointing out.
But whatever, we do have it quite good here whether one have it or not in their contract! Haha
In the US we "got" two weeks. Imagine the culture shock when I was basically getting over 4x as much time off in Sweden. Whether it's 3.5x off or 4 is kinda what I mean by getting in the weeds.
I guess, but that's just because the system is different when compared to the US. In the same way the minimum wage is also up to the collective agreements
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u/LemonKurry 13h ago
Getting Monday and Friday off like that(klämdag) is up to the company policy/collective agreements. Not written in law at all.
Just to be clear about that! But yeah, in non critical jobs it's relatively common.