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by barryvan 1211 days ago
Not where I am! Rather, it's a negotiation with your manager to see what works best. That way, we can ensure we have coverage across the week. We're all "on" for Mondays and Tuesdays, and then people take Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday off according to preference and suitability.

Yes, more people take Friday than Thursday, but quite a lot of people enjoy the zen-like lack of distraction when they work Fridays. Or so I've been told!
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lostlogin 1211 days ago
The pro tip is to work Monday, and thereby catch nearly all the stat days.

Some enlightened countries pro-rata stat days, but New Zealand doesn’t.

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2143 1211 days ago
> stat day

If you don't know what a "stat day" is (I didn't), it apparently stands for "statutory holidays" which is like public holidays.

During my brief time in the US, I observed that over there the public holidays tend to be something like "nth Friday/Monday of so-and-so month"; that way you get a long weekend. This is how it's done in some other countries as well.

Unfortunately not in my country (where I'm lucky to have both Saturdays and Sundays off! (I should probably move...) ); if a public holiday falls on a Wednesday, you get the Wednesday off. But on the bright side, there's plenty of holidays here.

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pm215 1211 days ago
The employer can fix up the imbalance -- if there are N bank holidays in the year, give all 80% part time workers 0.8N extra days of holiday allowance above their usual amount (etc), and mandate that they cover the bank holidays with days from their allowance if they would normally work them. (My UK employer does this.)
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cbzoiav 1211 days ago
Or just don't have them off by default and add the days to all employees allowance, but always allow people to book them off if they want.

That way if you have a family and are all off you can spend it together, but if you have nothing to do can use it when it better suits you.

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lostlogin 1210 days ago
It’s time and a half and a day in lieu for working a stat where I am. If you work it much outside 8.30-5 penal rates rise, but that part is employer specific rather than legislated.
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