Comments on: Required Vacation http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/ data visualizations and charts you just gotta love. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LoneSnark http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1032 LoneSnark Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:46:48 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/#comment-1032 Dustin, good point. As such, it is quite likely that mandatory paid leave would result in salaries being slashed far more than could ever be justified. That, and it would be largely irrelevant. While paid leave is not required by law, most workers negotiate for it anyway. And even that is a silly concept; just because time off is unpaid does not mean you cannot take time off. American wages are significantly higher than our European peers in France/etc, so we are perfectly capable of buying free time if we wanted too. Dustin, good point. As such, it is quite likely that mandatory paid leave would result in salaries being slashed far more than could ever be justified.

That, and it would be largely irrelevant. While paid leave is not required by law, most workers negotiate for it anyway. And even that is a silly concept; just because time off is unpaid does not mean you cannot take time off. American wages are significantly higher than our European peers in France/etc, so we are perfectly capable of buying free time if we wanted too.

]]> By: Dustin http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 Dustin Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:37:40 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/#comment-1029 and because labor markets don't price things as efficiently in the real world as economists might like to believe. and because labor markets don’t price things as efficiently in the real world as economists might like to believe.

]]> By: Johannes http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1028 Johannes Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:00:25 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/#comment-1028 @Nacim: because the term "paid holidays" doesn't apply anymore then? @Nacim: because the term “paid holidays” doesn’t apply anymore then?

]]> By: Nacim http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1027 Nacim Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:27:53 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2010/01/31/required-vacation/#comment-1027 If the law suddenly mandated more paid holidays, why wouldn't your salary adjust to the lower working hours you would now be contributing? If the law suddenly mandated more paid holidays, why wouldn’t your salary adjust to the lower working hours you would now be contributing?

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