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It's not black nor white. Depends on your "mode of operation". If you have a home-office, there is nothing against turning off the business mobile phone and the computer while you are "off-duty". If you have customers not respecting your office-hours, you have to either explicitly block the interruption of private life or make a service contract so that you get at least paid for your extra hours.
With regards of social contact: I always go at least once a week to my customers (e.g. work on-site) to get the informal contact to the "co-workers". That's a "must" on my side, even it involves some travelling. It's worth the effort!
Finally: "self-employed = none" is sick - or one turns sick sooner or later... 
Cheers
Andi
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5 weeks when I wish and 1 week mandatory set during Passover...
I also have 45 days of 'sickness' that I can use as holidays if I need, but for those days I get only 75% payment...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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What's about Sukkoth and (no)Shoshan Noise-Drink-Read-Send?
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For Sukkoth everyone choose as he wishes...If you take it off it's in the 5 week...
For Purim there is a law - you can choose which day, it's not in the 5 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)
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I'm in a contract-to-hire role right now, so until I'm converted in February '15 I don't get paid holidays.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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..although rest at the weekend is acceptable.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Holidays are a sign of the fact we aren't the robots. 
Later... 
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You need to define what you mean by "holiday". Different parts of the world call it different things. We get eight paid public holidays, then depending on length of service we get vacation, which I believe is what you are asking about. Currently I get three weeks vacation, three days of sick leave, and two personal days.
Because the company is setup mainly to employ hourly workers the salaried staff have some rules that I did not have to work with at other places.
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Same question here.
I currently get 25 days of paid leave (combined vacation/sick/personal time), 10 paid holidays (loosely aligned with the federal list; but swapping Columbus Day and MLKJr day for Black Friday and xMas eve).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I am getting around 24 days of paid leave + Saturday,Sunday in weeks 
Please up vote if it helped you
Thanks And Regards
Sibeesh
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Then i will get around 6 weeks
So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.
Sibeesh
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29 days to use as I wish, 8 days mandated by the company.
I think that is 7 and a bit weeks.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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7+ weeks time off? Didn't have to click on your profile to be sure that you were not in the States
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: you were not in the States
Not so fast...
I get 5 weeks vacation, plus 5 "sick" days, plus 11 holidays per year.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Good for you, Mike. But that's not very common
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: But that's not very common
Only because people seem to change jobs so frequently these days. I've been with the same company for nearly 29 years.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Ah, that's nice
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We work a contracted rota pattern which equates to 2 weeks at work, 3 weeks at leave, on top of this we have 7 Company days which are used for training etc. Over a 5 years cycle this averages out at our contracted 154 days/annum.
If we exceed the annual rota+7, then we are paid for these days depending if they are callback/training/delay.
In summary, approx 7 months holiday per year 
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You need to rent a helicopter to fly our to their offshore (and I don't mean outsourcing) recruiting office. But do keep in mind that Dave's 2 week blocks of work include weekends; and get extended whenever weather is bad on the North Sea and his replacement can't be flown out. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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ah, they probably don't have much use for a c# programmer then...
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The North Sea.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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That's enough to make a teacher jealous...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I have 6 weeks in contract, but I can free the extra hours with a 1:1 ratio.
So I have choosen unlimited. But not because it doesn't get tracked. I do have to say and to ask for permission, but it is usually quite easy to get them if the work situation allows it or if they were planned with enough time.
2 years ago I had 4 months holidays in a row. A coworker had 10 months (to build the house).
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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