I didn’t bring up working Christmas Eve, other posters made the point that they, as public sector employees, had to work Christmas Eve whereas private sector employees didn’t. I simply made the point that this is meaningless unless it is put in context of overall holiday leave and working hours.
My point is its still meaningless even with that information.
...When making a comparison of staff on €22’000 a year you have to take into account the likely pension benefits (they won’t retire on €22’000), the short working week (35 hours or over 10% less then the standard working week), and the generally better terms and conditions.
True but you'd also have to factor Private sector workers who get good terms and conditions aswell, bonus'es, share options etc. While they may be cutting back on these things at the moment, they didn't over the previous 10 yrs or so.
A friend of mine is a grade 6 public sector employee. He works 35 hours a week, gets 6 weeks holidays plus 2 privilege days plus he can work up one day a month of overtime on his laughable short week (his words). That gives him a grand total of 44 days off a year (plus paid sick leave). His opinion is that most of the people he works with know they have it handy and would be willing to take a pay cut followed by a 12-18 month pay freeze. I don’t know what he gets paid but he said he is one hell of an hourly rate.
I assume thats a senior position, on somewhere between 50k and 80k. So 30 days holidays.
The extra 14 days your spinning into extra leave sounds very like flexitime not overtime which would be paid. Flexitime isn't extra leave at all.
Assume a salary of 80k, over 252 working days is about €320 a day. 50k would be €200 a day.