>>I guess Vicky Day really irks the Quebecois
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>Well, she wasn't their Queen. Then again my grand father came from somewhere in the south of Ireland. So she's not quite my queen either. But that's an other debate :0 r their ancestry.

Hey, look at my surname - so did mine

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>>Incidentally, UK gets 8 in all, I think one of the lowest in Europe (if not THE), and lower than over there I think. BUT we DO get them when we need them, like New Years Day and Boxing Day. We have 2 in May, then a long drag until end of August.
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>I work for a company who's head office is in France. They seem to have too many. Including vacation days. Min 4 weeks for anyone who came to work here from there.

I assume you mean vacation days - not public holidays - of 4 weeks! They already get 4 hours a day off for lunch! :-)

I get 5 weeks vacation ( + an extra week for taking less of a pay-rise) (this irks Terry Thurber :-). I don't know how US employees can stand only the 2 weeks a year.

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>We have 9 days listed in our database. So we get only 1 more than you. I assume that would be June 24 for John the Baptist. Which I don't mind taking off.