NEW: Striking concrete workers in Seattle have shut down the city’s $23 billion construction industry.The @teamsters are fighting for higher wages & better health benefits for retirees.34 workers walked out in November. Now 300+ workers at 6 companies are on a general strike. pic.twitter.com/d4xSn0FZpM— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) February 8, 2022
I live in Europe and we have at least 21 vacation days per year. My company gave us 25 and 4 sick days per year. The law is a bit grey in this area but usually the company can't reject your PTO request unless they have a very strong reason. However, common sens dictates that you let the company know about your days off as soon as you schedule them. For 1-2 days, unless there is an emergency, a week is enough. For 2-3 weeks at least a month. Anyway, at the end of January I informed my boss that I will need two days of mid February. I was denied because we are onboarding a new client and the company really needs us there so unless there is an emergency, no days off are allowed until the end of March. This is absurd and I didn't think that the…
