Subscribe RSS FeedThis article is based on Canadian vacation laws.
It seems that most people don’t understand that by law we get 4% vacation. So where does this number of 2 weeks come from?
Well If you calculate 50 weeks * 4%, you will end up with 2 weeks, what that means is in 1 year, you get 2 weeks paid vacation and 50 weeks of work. So if your employer prorates your vacation for the first year, meaning that after 3 months they give you 3/12 of 10 days (i.e. 2.5 days or 25% of your total) but you need to take off 2 weeks and they refuse to give it to you, you shouldn’t worry about because either it means at the end of the year thats all you took (2.5 days paid), and by law they will pay you for the other 7.5 days or 3.75% of your total salary at the end of the year (or whenever they reconcile their accounts which could be a few months later)
The other case is that you will still get 7.5 days vacation after those 2.5 paid days, so in that case you didn’t lose anything and you ended up getting about 2 weeks extra unpaid vacation.
So make a decision, and enjoy your vacation!
