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In article <1992Jul15.083744.7161@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp> kuno@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (Yasushi Kuno) writes:

   Hi,...

   markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:
   > I live in the USA. We don't get a summer vacation. *sob* So I guess I'll
   > just have to hang out here in fj.misc by myself. *sniffle*

     Great surprise!  I thought people in many (perhaps Western) countries
   are insisting that we Japanese should have more vacation... :-)

							       Yasushi Kuno

In the US we get about 11 paid holidays a year. Most of them are on a
Monday giving us a 3 day weekend. Sometimes a couple will get put
together around a holiday giving us a really long weekend. The number
and dates of holidays are generally up to the company.

In general we also get 2 or 3 weeks of paid vacation time. The longer
you are with the company, the more vacation time you get every year. 
This is time that we can take whenever we want. We just have to schedule
the time off with our managers. For example, this year I am planning to
take about a week of vacation time around Christmas time and go visit my
family in Arkansas. My company is giving us two days off for Christmas,
the 24th and 25th, so I don't need to use my personal vacation time for
those two days.

Is it like this in Japan and the rest of the world?

Mark Dyer		English: markd@tdd.sj.nec.com
NEC America, Inc.	 $BF|K\8l(B: markd@csl.sj.nec.com
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