21st January 2012, 12:18 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
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Afraid I have to disagree with the holiday sentiments.
Most of my family live in the States.
My sister has been working there in various office jobs for the last 25 years.
She's been with 4 different employers over that time.
She works twice as much as her sister in insurance does here.
She cannot get more than two weeks off every year.
It was upped to three weeks total recently, as they generally go with an extra day holidays for service.
Taken all this time for her to get just this allowance.
She's worked in data entry, real eastate, insurance and finally legal area.
But you're right about the other stuff.
If you don't have HMO cover, you can basically die on the floor of a hospital waiting, or more recently, die in the gutter after being thrown out by security.
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