holidays

Speaking about holidays, what's the employers' attitude towards days off say on a 3 or 6 months contract?

A small to medium business website is never likely to get as much traffic as Amazon gets on holidays.

Granted, a bit less purchasing power and much higher taxes, but even better work/life deal (longer holidays, more parental leave) etc.

Airport employees spend overtime during the christmas holidays so that all payments of 65 Mio.

Assuming your work is useful you don't want to support it 24/7 with no holidays?

Most of europe is at or above 5 weeks when you include legal holidays.

That roughly works out to just under 30 billable hours per work week when vacations/holidays and non-billable time are taken into account.

There are many people working jobs which provide no paid holidays or vacation.

Religious holidays are easy, they would follow the old calendar, but I'm not sure how the days would work otherwise.

I know several companies offering 6 weeks of paid leave, plus holidays, in my area.

I use this during the holidays to keep people from grabbing packages off my porch.

Only the wealthy could fly to say the Med for their holidays Also I suppose poor slum dwellers didn't get much sun.

Slightly off-topic, but there are already too many "national holidays" in India.

Added with the "state holidays", there are barely any workdays left.

Given the legal minimum of 28 days holiday per year for permanent employees (28 includes bank holidays, often you'll find vacation quoted as 20 days which doesn't include the bank holidays), that's close to 100% "found work" rate.