>>>plus 10 statutory holidays
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>>>10? Well, I guess if you could "National Auto-spanning Day" <s>
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>>Let's see what days we can agree on for the US. Assumption here is that we're talking about office workers, not retail.
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>>I think all would say: New Year's, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. That's six.
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>>Other possibilities: MLK Day, Presidents Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve (1/2 day?), New Years Eve (1/2 day?). I don't think it would be hard to come up with a set of 4 days from that list. Were I an employee, I'd actually prefer to have some floating holidays, so I could take the High Holy Days without using vacation.
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>>Tamar
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>I completely agree. I prefer to set my vacation days as well so I can work when the rest of you are off and I can play when you're at work. ;)

But you missed my point. I'd like some _holidays_ to be floating. I know people who want Good Friday as a holiday. I want Yom Kippur and lost interest in having Good Friday off once my kids were out of the house. (In this part of the world, school spring vacations generally are the week that ends with Easter.) What I wouldn't want to do is have to use vacation days to take religious holidays. (And yes, I know that for some companies, there's just a big pool of days, while others make a big distinction between holidays and vacation days.)

Tamar