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[Blomady]

I see! It is interesting to know about the laws other countries

Here salary stays the same with holidays, days off or without them. It could be reduced in case of sick leave (because lots of people obtained fake sick leaves in the past), breaking the rules in a very serious way, or other rare situations.

Yeah haha

I'll try to explain it a bit
We get paid 2 times a month (in every company the exact date may differ), in the beginning and at the end of the month, so the salary is broken into 2 parts
Say, your salary is 5000$, so you get 2500$ at the beginning of the month and the other 2500$ at the end of the month (the amount also may differ, in some companies they pay 50/50, in others it may be 30/70 etc)
In January we have an 8 days holiday, so the first working say is going to be the 9th, and the "pay day", say, is the 15th - you won't get your 2500$ and will only have the salary for the actual working days, say it's aroung 1000$. but at the end of the month you'll get 4000$ instead of 2500$. it's up to every company to pay full salary as usual or break it into parts

as for sick leave, it's same, if your work experience is less than 8 years then you will get a lower salary. it also depends on the years of working experience. but if it's more than 8 years, then you'll have 100% of salary
it's also calculated differently and is based on a so called "average salary" during the period

It surprises me how different things are around the world ! Here salaries are paid once a month and thats all.

For sick leaves is a bit complicated. In case it was caused by an accident happened at your work, you will receive 100%. But in other cases (usual illness, other accidents...), there is a complicated formula that calculates how much percentage of your salary you will receive according to the days of the leave.

Yep, it’s surprising and very interesting at the same time we’re used to the reality of our countries and don’t realise how different it can be for others

I don’t really know what happens in case of emergency in my country I’ve heard some heads of companies help their employees if they want to
If it’s something like a car accident, then it’s all about insurance payments

[juleic1123]

In Portugal, employees are legally entitled to 22 working days of paid annual leave per year, excluding like public holidays like christmas and national holidays.

Summer holidays (especially August) are the most common time for people to take leave. Many companies even slow down operations or partially shut down during August because it’s such a popular vacation month. The employees choose when to take their leave, but it must be approved by the employer, who can deny it for business needs. However, regardless at least 10 consecutive working days must usually be taken between May 1 and October 31.

The rest of the vacation days can be split and used around Christmas, Easter, or other personal occasions (like family events or travel).

Portugal also has 13 public holidays (and more if local holidays are counted, depends on where you live) so they are automatically days off. But it's no different from schools in that regard.

Honestly I wish we could have more free time as adults. Everything starts revolving around our job and I get it, but having free time is such a blessing, all my friends from college are slowly finding a job and our time together is getting less and less, it's honestly making me pretty sad. It's not even their fault, but trying to manage everything to fit their weekend or their 6-7 afterwork hours every day during the week... it's hard.

[Blomady]

Oh, August holidays we don’t have any, but Italians have “il Ferragosto”. It’s always been hard for us to have business with Italians in August because the process usually stops completely due to the long holiday. I don’t mean to say anything negative about it, it’s just a fun fact based on my experience

It’s really sad that our life looks like a home-work-home cycle as for me, I don’t even have 6-7 after work hours, for me it’s only 3-4 since I come home by 6:30pm and have to go to bed around 10pm

[DarkPinkie2024]

In Portugal, employees are legally entitled to 22 working days of paid annual leave per year, excluding like public holidays like christmas and national holidays.

Summer holidays (especially August) are the most common time for people to take leave. Many companies even slow down operations or partially shut down during August because it’s such a popular vacation month. The employees choose when to take their leave, but it must be approved by the employer, who can deny it for business needs. However, regardless at least 10 consecutive working days must usually be taken between May 1 and October 31.

The rest of the vacation days can be split and used around Christmas, Easter, or other personal occasions (like family events or travel).

Portugal also has 13 public holidays (and more if local holidays are counted, depends on where you live) so they are automatically days off. But it's no different from schools in that regard.

Honestly I wish we could have more free time as adults. Everything starts revolving around our job and I get it, but having free time is such a blessing, all my friends from college are slowly finding a job and our time together is getting less and less, it's honestly making me pretty sad. It's not even their fault, but trying to manage everything to fit their weekend or their 6-7 afterwork hours every day during the week... it's hard.

exactly, my holidays aren't very proper for me.

[Xxana]

I understand you all. Nowadays I have no job, my partner works for both of us. However, not so long ago, I worked in another city (not the one where I'm living), and was so exhausting. Specially not having a lot of time for me, as Blomady said. Luckly, I loved my job, but it was temporary.

Talking about friends, I lost a lot of people because, as you said, the time to be together almost disappeared. As a result, I only have one friend of my age (my best friend), and the rest are teenagers (I'm in my twenties). I'm more like a second mother most of the time, but it's funny. My mother sometimes says I'm in my second adolescence . So, for me summer holidays exist in some way

[Blomady]

I didn't really lose my friends, but we don't spend much time together yeah
Either I'm exhausted or someone is busy

Since I don't have a partner and I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to rely on someone, I want to find a job that wouldn't be so much pain for me

[ZoeySolaria2007]

I love the new Summer display! It´s so cute^^

[Xxana]

I didn't really lose my friends, but we don't spend much time together yeah
Either I'm exhausted or someone is busy

Since I don't have a partner and I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to rely on someone, I want to find a job that wouldn't be so much pain for me

There are some good and not exhausting jobs waiting for you, I'm sure . So good luck <3

[Blomady]

I didn't really lose my friends, but we don't spend much time together yeah
Either I'm exhausted or someone is busy

Since I don't have a partner and I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to rely on someone, I want to find a job that wouldn't be so much pain for me

There are some good and not exhausting jobs waiting for you, I'm sure . So good luck <3

Thank you for your support :3