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Article: Four weeks of holidays not
enough? Move to France
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- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2009
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If you hate having to work while schools are on holiday, a survey shows you would be better off in France.
An online survey of workers in 11 countries by travel company Expedia shows New Zealanders took an average 18 days of annual leave in the past year _ half of the average 36 days in France.
But New Zealanders still took slightly more holidays than Canadians and Australians and roughly twice as many as Japanese and Americans.
The survey measures the days of leave actually taken by samples of 500 to 1500 people in each country. It shows much bigger variations between countries than legal minimum provisions, which are a standard four to five ...