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Depends what business they are in.
My SIL is a midwife, and this year will be the first Christmas Day she hasn't worked for 3 years. Think she does get compensated extra for that though.
My wife works for Peter Andre's favourite frozen food retailer, and as far as they are concerned there are days when the shop is open and days when the shop is closed. From memory only Christmas Day and Easter Sunday (if the shops are too large to be open) are days they are closed. If you normally work Mondays then you have to work the bank holiday Mondays with no extra pay or time off.
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I hear somein the NHS try and work Christmas day because they get paid quite a bit more for doing so.
With regards to Iceland - that sounds incredibly mean spirited to not allow bank holidays and I take it 'closed days' are days when people are not paid.
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Well Austria would be the place to be as Employees in Austria have a total of 38 holidays 
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It would be better if you had only 38 working days per year 
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In like what? A 50 day year? 
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Not too far from me, so maybe one day
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RUs123 wrote: what holidays do you have in other countries, that excuse you from work without using any leave?
Every next day after pay day.
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In Italy we have:
January, 1 - New year's day
January, 6 - Epiphany
April, 25 - Liberation from Fascism
May, 1 - worker's celebration
June, 2 - Republic celebration
August, 15 - Ferie augustee, a really ancient tradition recently stole by the Church as Assumption of the Virgin Mary (actually introduced in the late 1960's)
November, 1 - Celebration of the dead
December, 8 - Immaculate Conception
December, 25 - of course
December, 26 - st Stephen
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Yeah we also have 1. of May, reduced from 1. and 2. as well as New Year 
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Québec:
Jan 1st: New year.
Good friday (xor the next Easter Monday)
May 18: Patriot day (or Victoria day depending on your political allegiance)
June 24: Fête nationale du Québec.
July 1st: Canada Day (Also known as Moving Day[^])
Sept 7: Fête du travail
October 12: Thanksgiving.
December 25: Christmas.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I generally have three-day Monday mornings.
Feels like it, anyway.
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For me every week have a 3 day weekend 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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How do you get to have that every week ? 
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Simple - my contract is for 4 days a week...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Since when did women in Sunderland need bog rolls?
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Such a lady...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Erm...why? Was she planning on using the plasterboard (drywall for our colonial cousins) as a substitute? 
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Maybe she wanted to check if the loo next to her had any paper left
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Ooo! That'd be fun.
Sitting there, doing your business, and someone starts smashing the wall down to see if you've got any paper...would probably cure any lingering constipation. 
A friend of mine was sitting there, doing what comes naturally, when their new puppy chewed it's way through the plasterboard from the kitchen and stuck her head through to see what mum was doing...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hm, writing that I was thinking of an empty loo, but yeah that would be fun, plus she was drunk so I can't even imagine the look on her face
I wonder how the dog and your friend reacted, must have been funny
I for one have never had anyone bother me until now, hopefully it stays that way 
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Well, that comes from using plasterboards as walls! In my country it is almost never used, so I would be a little more frightened if someone punched its way through a brick wall
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The traditional material here is "riverstone" - granite blocks that have been slammed together in the river floods until they have a hardness approaching diamond - mortared with limestone mortar. (And that's how my house is built: it's hard enough putting up a shelf let alone making a hole big enough to see through!)
But more modern designs (i.e. built in the 20th century) in the UK are brick (or brick with a wooden frame) externals, with plasterboard for internal, non-supporting walls. It's cheaper, and easier for the builder to be flexible (or muck it up completely and nobody notices).
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