How many weeks holidays do you get?? - Page 2 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Rhettzky · 08-25-2008, 01:53 PM

Here's the City of Calgary union agreement for holiday time for years service...

After 1 Years Service = 2 weeks
After 2 Years Service = 3 weeks
After 8 Years Service = 4 weeks
After 17 Years Service = 5 weeks
After 25 Years Service = 6 weeks
After 30 Years Service = 7 weeks

JBR · 08-25-2008, 01:56 PM

1. Four weeks plus 1 week company retreat
2. Fine food/beverage
3. 5 years/3 years
4. Employee
5. No.. idiot..
6. Calgary, AB
7. Flex hours. No personal days

Bill Bumface · 08-25-2008, 01:56 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting: 7 weeks taken so far this year
2 - Industry. IT in Oil and Gas
3 - Years experience and years at current company. 5 years/3 years
4 - Employee or Contractor. Contractor (that's why)
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing. Nope
6 - City/Country your in. Calgary

7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year? 2 Fridays off per month

kevman · 08-25-2008, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DFO

1 - how many weeks your getting - 4 Weeks
2 - Industry - Oil/Gas
3 - Years experience and years at current company - 7yrs / 3months
4 - Employee or Contractor - Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing - No
6 - City/Country your in - Calgary
7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year?
11 PDO's
Office closed Dec 24-Jan 02

1) 3 weeks (4 weeks after 4 years of service)
3) 1 year

HelloHockeyFans · 08-25-2008, 01:57 PM

nm

jydk · 08-25-2008, 01:58 PM

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worth · 08-25-2008, 01:58 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting. - 2 weeks
2 - Industry. - oil and gas manufacturing
3 - Years experience and years at current company. - 4 and 4
4 - Employee or Contractor. - employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing. - no
6 - City/Country your in. - calgary
7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year? - no

I will get 3 weeks in 2009 because I will have been with the company for 5 years.

FlamesAddiction · 08-25-2008, 02:01 PM

1 - how many weeks you're getting:

3 weeks - but in reality, nobody gets to use them because it's too busy. I used about 2 weeks in the past 2 years, plus I have a over a month of banked time (150 hours) accumulated that I dip into now and then, plus a month of available holiday time.

2 - Industry: Environmental Consulting - project scientist.

3 - Years experience and years at current company: 3 years experience, 2 at current company

4 - Employee or Contractor: Salaried employee.

5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing: No

6 - City/Country you're in: Prince George/Canada

7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year?

Yes, but I can't remember how many. I have never taken a personal or sick day, so I'd have to look it up.

mac_gurl · 08-25-2008, 02:03 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting - 3 Weeks
2 - Industry - Printing
3 - Years experience and years at current company - 5 years for both
4 - Employee or Contractor - Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing - No
6 - City/Country your in - Calgary
7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year? - none

LeftWing · 08-25-2008, 02:05 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting: 4 Weeks
2 - Industry: Oil & Gas
3 - Years experience and years at current company: 7
4 - Employee or Contractor: Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing: Tried - no dice.
6 - City/Country your in: Calgary

7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year?: 25/year - 2/month + 1 anytime, working 8.5 hour days.

burn_baby_burn · 08-25-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26

(did a quick search, hope this isn't fata)

I'm just curious how many weeks holidays you'll be getting in 2009.

Things I'd like to compare:
1 - how many weeks your getting.
2 - Industry.
3 - Years experience and years at current company.
4 - Employee or Contractor.
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing.
6 - City/Country your in.

7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year?

(I'm more interested in Calgary market, but a international or country wide comparison might be interesting too.)

1. As many as I want.
2. Equipment Sales.
3. 7 years
4. Employee paid by commission.
5. Wasn't much to negotiate. The way it was worded to me "your a commission salesman. Take as much time as you want, but bear in mind that if your not selling you won't be making any money.".
6. Red Deer.
7. I don't have Flex days. I just take a day when ever I need to.

My first job out of college was with a multinational company. I got three weeks vacation right from the start.

HelloHockeyFans · 08-25-2008, 02:06 PM

Holy cow coaster has it sweet!

Flickered Flame · 08-25-2008, 02:08 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting. 10.5 weeks
2 - Industry. Education/Teacher
3 - Years experience and years at current company. 2.5 years but starting my first with new school division
4 - Employee or Contractor. Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing. Nope
6 - City/Country your in. Red Deer

7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year? I do get some personal days, I would have to check my agreement to see how many.

Pagal4321 · 08-25-2008, 02:11 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting. - 4 weeks ( 2 weeks standard, 2 weeks bought)
2 - Industry. - Consulting
3 - Years experience and years at current company. - 1.5 & 1.5
4 - Employee or Contractor. - Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing. - Nope
6 - City/Country your in. - Calgary, AB
7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year? - Apparently I get 3 personal days, but I doubt my boss would ever let me take them.

worth · 08-25-2008, 02:16 PM

I'm a little suprised by these results.

2 weeks: 3
3 weeks: 11
4 weeks: 11
5+ weeks: 5

It seems to me the standard when starting at a company is 3 weeks. Although most of the people on here seem well educated...I guess the give away is their on a computer during work hours. Not many mechanics and labourers can respond to this thread right now I guess.

I'm happy with my 2 weeks and when it goes up to 3, I don't even know if i'll use it all. Unless you have somewhere to go, sitting around at home is not something I enjoy. It's nice to take some time to read and such, but if I had to stay home for 3 weeks in the summer i'd die of bordem. I'd have to plan a lot of stuff...work on my car...go mountain biking..build a deck...do anything to occupy me. What the hell do you guys with 5 or 6 weeks do for that amount of time?

HelloHockeyFans · 08-25-2008, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by worth

What the hell do you guys with 5 or 6 weeks do for that amount of time?

Vacation

mykalberta · 08-25-2008, 02:28 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting 3 weeks
2 - Industry O/G Manufacturing/Sales (IT)
3 - Years experience and years at current company 4/4 straight from UofA to current company
4 - Employee or Contractor Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing I negotiated on salary - I had a minimum living wage for Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver in mind and I got 20% more than what I thought I needed to live
6 - City/Country your in Calgary/Uraguay.

Forgot to add - 5 flex days, cannot use more than 2 at a time, they can be attached to vacation days.

Galakanokis · 08-25-2008, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by worth

I'm a little suprised by these results.

2 weeks: 3
3 weeks: 11
4 weeks: 11
5+ weeks: 5

It seems to me the standard when starting at a company is 3 weeks. Although most of the people on here seem well educated...I guess the give away is their on a computer during work hours. Not many mechanics and labourers can respond to this thread right now I guess.

I'm happy with my 2 weeks and when it goes up to 3, I don't even know if i'll use it all. Unless you have somewhere to go, sitting around at home is not something I enjoy. It's nice to take some time to read and such, but if I had to stay home for 3 weeks in the summer i'd die of bordem. I'd have to plan a lot of stuff...work on my car...go mountain biking..build a deck...do anything to occupy me. What the hell do you guys with 5 or 6 weeks do for that amount of time?

Agreed Worth. I can't afford to be taking 3 or 4 weeks off a year and actually do something with my time. I seem to carry a week or two over every year so I generally have 5 weeks to kill. I have 24 days still to kill this year. I end up taking a lot of long weekends or Wednesdays off just because.

Grunt · 08-25-2008, 02:36 PM

Wow, finding things to do with my time off has never been a problem. Getting time off to do all of the things I want to do is much more difficult. Feel free to pass those extra days you need to "kill" my way.

FlamesKickAss · 08-25-2008, 02:45 PM

1 - how many weeks your getting. - 3 Weeks
2 - Industry. - Insurance Agency
3 - Years experience and years at current company. - Started April 2007 for both
4 - Employee or Contractor. - Employee
5 - did you negotiate for more than standard when interviewing. - No
6 - City/Country your in. - Calgary

7 - Do you get flex days or personal days, and if so, how many per year? - 1 Floater day, 10 sick days, overtime is all banked, and then we get banked days off.