EU Threatens Swedish Vacaction Days:
The manner in which Swedish annual vacation increases with seniority is in conflict with European Union age-discrimination legislation. Elderly Swedes with long seniority tend to have in excess of 252 annual vacation days, which means that they simply never have to show up for work at all. EU age-discrimination legislation demands that this right not be linked to age, and that thus all Swedes should have the option of never showing up for work, yet receiving full pay.
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