Where I live taking all your days is mandatory, by law. The company gets punished if you don’t, so the HR guys actually remind you to do it. There is a small flexibility (you can take part of your days in next year Q1) but you cannot swap your days for money, nor ‘give them’ to another employee.

Did I mention we have 25 workdays of paid vacation, by the way? ;)

No, we would still need evidence.

Because of that ‘innocent until caught’ and ‘due process’ things you may had heard about.

Note: a credible testimony IS evidence, although it must be a little bit beyond the simple ‘trust me’ stuff.

Although I’d love the Canadians to fly the blue-starred flag and to adopt Ode to Joy as their second anthem (sincerely, we EU-sians have the absolute best anthem in the world), I have two words that will break any chance of this being possible:

Fishing rights.

To add a little bit of context, what happened in Spain was actually the opposite: gangs of fascists terrorising immigrant communities.

Tell me more about option 4.

So you Americans are officially entering the ‘let’s build concentration camps’ phase.

Showers and crematoria go next.

Also null and void in Spain. Judicial recourse is an non-waiveable right.

Just to boast my old timer credentials.

There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.

It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.

The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.