My previous employer was interprovincial here in Canada, some provinces had 2 weeks vacation, others had 3 weeks, to level things, the corporation had us given 2 weeks vacation and 5 days of FHP days.
My boss at my branch wouldn’t allow us to use our FHP to spend with our families as he said that was vacation, he also said on numerous occasions he didn’t “believe in mental health days”. He called a coworker who had taken one in a different department lazy, and said it was an excuse to not work.
According to him, those days were for appointments only, and he never needed them anyway (he forgot he gets 2 weeks more than everyone else per year)
Anyway, I quit that job and I’ve never been happier.