Sentences with phrase «days off a year»

Consider giving employees one day off a year to volunteer.

REI encourages its employees to get outside by offering two paid days off each year, called «Yay Days,» to enjoy their favorite outside activity.

I still pay off all my CC bills and take on average 20 days off a year for the past 5 years.

If you want it so much then get the schools to allow kids a couple of days off each year to observe the holidays.

Such as — every kid gets 5 days off a year — to use at their discretion.

After seven years of painful austerity, our workers deserve a break — and under a Labour government, they will have the opportunity of four more days off a year.

Quinn has been under intense pressure to pass the legislation, which would require businesses with 20 or more workers to give employees nine paid sick days off a year.

Americans get the least paid vacation time in the world - while other countries enjoy as many as FORTY days off a year.

In Fairfax County, Virginia, whose 13,000 teachers are offered 11 days off a year, the district budgeted $ 19 million for substitutes in 2012.

We even give associates a paid day off each year to volunteer with a cause of their choice.

Me and my husband have just started our blog two weeks ago about travelling as full time workers with just 25 days off a year.

Employees could argue having that extra day off every year has become a term of their employment and could claim they have been constructively dismissed by having that holiday taken away.

If time is money, an extra couple of days off each year could be a suitable middle ground for both you and your employer.

Not exact matches

Brewer Molson Coors suffered its biggest one - day loss in 13 years after it said the U.S. beer industry got off to a slow start in 2018.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Associatioff, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel AssociatiOff, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

So by making roughly $ 2,555 a year through mining (at the current price of bitcoin), I'm on track to pay off the extra parts I bought for mining in about 230 days.

That was true again in 2016, with 54 % of employees ending the year with unused time off, collectively sacrificing 662 million vacation days, according to a study the U.S. Travel Association's Project Time Off released Tuesdoff, collectively sacrificing 662 million vacation days, according to a study the U.S. Travel Association's Project Time Off released TuesdOff released Tuesday.

While «Jurassic Park» was able to sucessfully pull off a sequel 20 years later with Chris Pratt, «Independence Day» couldn't do the same without a big star and its former leading man Will Smith.

Valparaiso holds a three - day celebration in anticipation of New Year's Eve, capping it off with the largest fireworks display in Latin America.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

OPEC, along with Russia and several other producer nations, is keeping 1.8 million barrels a day off the market through the end of the year in order to shrink global stockpiles of oil.

As counterintuitive as it was, I took twice as many days off one year, and increased my revenue $ 170,000.

Some companies that go full tilt during the holidays find that with no time to plan or take off, a party for their own staffers is likely to occur after New Year's Day.

Giving people an extra day off five months out of the year to take trips — which are often financed by the $ 2,000 allowance — helps create a give - and - take mentality that SteelHouse respects employees, who in turn respect the company.

Three years ago, a mentor asked me that question and gave me life - changing advice: Schedule your day around when your brain is firing on all cylinders and hold off on brainless work until it is fatigued.

The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.

This tends to lead to people actually taking their days off — because if you don't take them by the end of the year, you lose them,» Jan Kramps explains.

Special circumstances like these emphasize the point that the right amount of days off for each person will vary from year to year based on circumstances.

Dedicate one day for an off - site meeting where you can map out the upcoming year, set short - term and long - term goals (both company - wide and on an individual basis), and discuss and celebrate the milestones of the last year.

Three years ago, the company began holding a yearly «brand camp,» which requires employees from every restaurant to take half a day off to retrain and reboot.

The Asian giants were locked in a 73 - day military stand - off in a remote, high - altitude stretch of that boundary last year.

Years of self - promotion paid off big when she landed an appearance on The Today Show, which catapulted her sales to seventh place on Amazon the day of its airing.

Roads leading to the 20 - year - old education activist's home in Mingora were blocked off earlier in the day.

Benefits offered: Every employee at Deloitte is offered up to 30 days of paid time off per year, with unused leave carried over into the next year.

This could mean only giving newer employees 20 days off per year, or giving people whatever time they need, within limits of your own choosing.

Year - round, Fortune recommends stocks and investing strategies to help readers capitalize on the business trends of the day, and this is the season when we look in the mirror and ask ourselves if our picks have paid off.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

You've made a name for yourself by taking days off, but from the looks of it I'd say you've had a pretty busy year.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

The S&P 500 had been off 0.7 percent for the week heading into the day's trading, putting it about flat for the year.

Ervin said cutting off light oil supplies through Trans Mountain would hurt Alberta - based Parkland Fuels Corp., which bought the 55,000 - barrel - per - day Burnaby refinery last year and has enjoyed good margins thanks to its access to low - cost Alberta feedstock.

The Asian giants were locked in a 73 - day military stand - off in a remote, high - altitude stretch of their Himalayan border last year.

It's been four years, almost to the day, since investors gritted their teeth and rode out a fear - fuelled stock market sell - off.

Employees get up to 20 days off during their first full year.

And we finished off the year by traveling to Michigan for 13 days.

Why not take the longest day of the year off work and actually accomplish all that stuff that's cluttering your brain?

Instead, he allows his workers to recover from the rigors of the summer by working eight - hour days the rest of the year and taking a few extra days off.

But the C. D. Howe report speculates that the rising number of sick days women are taking off — an average 2.9 more days a year than men — has less to do with illness than the fact that women are often saddled with taking care of both children and elderly parents.

The accumulation of expertise and financial wherewithal along the way has allowed Lululemon to shrug off things like the departure of CEO Robert Meers (the one - time Reebok International president was replaced by Day, a 20 - year veteran of Starbucks and doubtless a better representative of the company's core customer) and the seaweed scandal of 2007, when clothing touted for its supposedly skin - friendly properties was found to contain none of the marine ingredient.