For anyone who plans to spend the last days of this glorious summer on vacation: whatever you do, don’t apologize. Not to your co-workers, not to your boss, nor to anyone else who may be affected by your absence.
Taking vacation time is a small step toward that elusive dream of work-life balance. But when it comes to paid time off, Canadian regulatory minimums are stingy — not the worst, but not great either. Trade unions, community organizations, academics and others have been calling for more time off for decades and with good reason.
For Ontario workers, this translates to a minimum of 19 to 24 paid days off per year, for full-time employees. For part-time employees, time off the job is calculated by an average of the number of days worked over the previous 12 months, which could result in very little rest time, especially for those stringing together multiple part-time jobs.
We don't need no stinkin' jobs!
Everyone should get 6 weeks vacation and we should have freedom of mobility paid for with higher taxes on the rich.
I get 5 weeks, and I take every day of it.