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Originally Posted by spdrun
... agreed: the problem is the government pension, not the vacation time. However, I'd suspect that going to a 36 hr week with 4 weeks of guaranteed vacation in the US would actually increase worker productivity per hr (happy employees tend to be more productive) as well as reducing unemployment. (Same # or slightly fewer hours worked spread across more people.)
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Great idea except for the way it would raise prices/ costs on everything. The fixed costs of having an employee are a constant. These include the company health insurance and dental insurance, maybe short term disability--all these are fixed ( except when rates are raised). Generally they are spread out over 40 hours so the employer can figure his true cost of the labor he hires. Your idea requires that he spread those same costs over only 36 hours and hire additional people ( with the same overhead cost). The employer's costs go up. Is he supposed to eat that cost?
I expect that cost to be passed on in the form of higher prices.