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Originally Posted by RACER X
is this vac. or is your co. just shutting down?
thats the difference, the auto industry shuts down, pays these people and then pays them for x weeks of vacation on top of that. CRAZY!
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This is sounding less like business expertise and more like jealousy over people having more vacation time than you do
The company my Mom works for also shuts down from Christmas week until after New Year's, and has for the twenty-odd years she's worked there. The owner is German (dual-citizenship), and takes a more European view on vacation time. It's not unheard-of.
Chrysler has a surplus of vehicles waiting to be sold. There's no point in running at full capacity right now.
Meanwhile, it's generally not a good idea to tell your employees that they're going to be taking a month of mandatory unpaid time-off starting- SURPRISE!- next week. People work because they need an income. If they lose a month of pay, when you start back up, you're going to be missing a lot of your best workers.
Now, without a Union contract, the company would indeed be free to tell its workers "Hey, guess what- your monthly budget is about to be cut in half! Merry Christmas, hope Santa brings you enough to cover the mortgage and electric for the month".
I'm sure that sounds just super to you, but there are quite a few people out there who would prefer not to have that happen...