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I did write up work for a small U S Subsidiary of a Swedish Corporation for 4 or 5 years. The Swedish employees had 36 paid holidays every year. Just let me say they were a well run very profitable company. It really doesn't matter how many or how few holidays the employees have. What matters is how productive the work force is !

Give me a real and solid reason that everyone needs all those holidays off with pay? At my business, and the firm I work for part time, we work on those days, and only get paid because we work. Those "white collar" holidays are just perks that one government agency provided for all the other government employees.

Medlin, I think you have to speak for yourself. I certainly do not all agree that gov't (the state) is a business, and I'm sure others will concur. Of course , the state needs money to operate, but it is the source of that money that it is a major difference. States do not "always" spend just over , or under their budget every year. In fact about one third of the states have continually overspent on their budget and have large unfunded pension and health care accounts. Five states are in deep financial trouble and at least one, Illinois, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Federal Government employees not only make more money in four of five categories, get more benefits, work fewer hours (as do state employees) , get more paid time off and other perks. It is the gov't employee benefits that are pushing cities and states toward bankruptcy. The public employees unions in CA have opposed any measure to modify the system and in fact receive TAXPAYER money to fight any changes.

Interesting story - about 30 years ago I got a new family for a client - parents and 2 teen-age sons. One son also had same name as his father except for middle initial. When that son showed me his W-2 - it had the father's Social Security number on it. Since he didn't have his own Social Security number with him at the time he applied for the job - he knew his father's number and used that - figuring with the same name IRS wouldn't know the difference.