{"id":8327,"date":"2024-06-17T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:11:32","slug":"more-companies-are-enforcing-mandatory-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/more-companies-are-enforcing-mandatory-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"More Companies Are Enforcing Mandatory Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The auto industry used to have a practice called &#8220;summer shutdown&#8221;.\u00a0 Almost all plants would go down for a week or two every summer.\u00a0 This would allow companies to plan maintenance and training while employees got to plan a vacation, medical procedure, or just enjoy some down time.\u00a0 Looks like that was an idea ahead of its time.\u00a0 CNBC shares this story about a &#8220;new&#8221; trend in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/06\/14\/taking-a-vacation-from-work-may-soon-become-mandatory.html\">Taking a vacaton from work may soon become mandatory<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With burnout prevalent in the workplace, some employers are considering mandatory vacation, full office shutdowns and other ways to get workaholic employees to take a break.<\/p>\n<p>Only a small number of employers today \u2014 8.7% \u2014 require workers to take a minimum amount of vacation, and some of this is for legal or regulatory reasons, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifebp.org\/resources---news\/survey-reports\/paid-leave-in-the-workplace-survey-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2024 report<\/a>\u00a0by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Even so, figuring out how to get employees to take time off is increasingly on employers\u2019 minds, said Julie Stich, vice president of content at the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should GM return to the practice of company paid summer shutdowns?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/more-companies-are-enforcing-mandatory-vacation\/kermit-3657139_1280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8328\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kermit-3657139_1280-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kermit-3657139_1280-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kermit-3657139_1280-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kermit-3657139_1280-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kermit-3657139_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>( free graphic by Alexa from Pixabay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auto industry used to have a practice called &#8220;summer shutdown&#8221;.\u00a0 Almost all plants would go down for a week or two every summer.\u00a0 This would allow companies to plan maintenance and training while employees got to plan a vacation, medical procedure, or just enjoy some down time.\u00a0 Looks like that was an idea ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8331,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}