surely
With annual leave, you get what you negotiate from the outset?

As for the health care, I think it's fair to assume that everyone knows you need medical cover for the States and it's not something the dole out based on your taxes, as your taxes are used to buy bombs to drop on the innocent.

I'll look at the states in more detail.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 11:59, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

you would think so
but it's all at the discretion of your boss. mine was a cunt of the very highest order, and although I was told at the outset that I could have 20 days holiday a year, it turned out that I was actually only allowed 10, and then only if he let me. I took 8, and got so so much shit for it, you'd have thought I'd slaughtered his firstborn or something.

a good friend of mine lives in San Francisco, was told the same (oh, 20 days, yup, fine), then got there, and now has 0 days a year. She is looking for another job. apparently, even having it in writing is useless.
( ascorbate, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 12:02, Reply)

There is virtually no white collar worker protection.
Unless there is a union, vacations are a joke. Sometimes you get great bosses who treat you like humans, other times you get shit on. With the economy right now, don't count on getting much in the way of benefits. The 8 hour day is long gone and 10-11 hrs (on salary, not hourly pay) are becoming the norm.

Its embarrassing to live here most times.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 12:42, Reply)