I enjoy choosing to take time off.
Others must not have the choice I enjoy.
Fred
14 years ago
Are you being “heightist” today Tim ? I note rr is only 4ft 10 in and once wrote a book called “why growth is good”
Tim adds: I did consider making that joke but reconsidered. Not for reasons of taste of course. Just because I couldn’t quite get it right.
blokeinfrance
14 years ago
If the economy worked on university terms…
Frances Coppola
14 years ago
Didn’t we make a similar observation with regard to one Eoin Clarke’s liking for coffee not long ago? He just wants a cup of coffee. Therefore all that should be on the menu is a cup of coffee.
Not to mention that no-one gets “paid” time off. Your employer could equally well increase your pay (on a weekly or hourly basis) and not pay you over the holiday: then you wouldn’t have paid holidays but you’d still have the same overall pay.
(In fact, your net pay would go up a smidge because of the absolutely potty way that National Insurance works.)
The conclusion is fairly obvious, and I suspect that apart from the resident idiot we’ve already come to it: enforce “paid” time off, and unit wages will fall, but only for the least well paid workers.
John Sweda
14 years ago
I think Mr Reich is saying that Americans should be more like Europeans, who have mandatory vacations time. Mr Reich is 66 years of age, and I think he should be sufficiently well-off to retire an not go to work at all. Has anyone read his book “I`ll Be Short – Essentials for a Decent Working Society” ?
I enjoy choosing to take time off.
Others must not have the choice I enjoy.
Are you being “heightist” today Tim ? I note rr is only 4ft 10 in and once wrote a book called “why growth is good”
Tim adds: I did consider making that joke but reconsidered. Not for reasons of taste of course. Just because I couldn’t quite get it right.
If the economy worked on university terms…
Didn’t we make a similar observation with regard to one Eoin Clarke’s liking for coffee not long ago? He just wants a cup of coffee. Therefore all that should be on the menu is a cup of coffee.
Not to mention that no-one gets “paid” time off. Your employer could equally well increase your pay (on a weekly or hourly basis) and not pay you over the holiday: then you wouldn’t have paid holidays but you’d still have the same overall pay.
(In fact, your net pay would go up a smidge because of the absolutely potty way that National Insurance works.)
The conclusion is fairly obvious, and I suspect that apart from the resident idiot we’ve already come to it: enforce “paid” time off, and unit wages will fall, but only for the least well paid workers.
I think Mr Reich is saying that Americans should be more like Europeans, who have mandatory vacations time. Mr Reich is 66 years of age, and I think he should be sufficiently well-off to retire an not go to work at all. Has anyone read his book “I`ll Be Short – Essentials for a Decent Working Society” ?