Re:List of statutory minimum employment leave by country
by Groxx on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:18PM
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I'm American, so please tolerate my spelling of "gray". And my irritation at my own country's weirdness. And my skepticism.
I'm at least as in-the-dark about this as you, though I highly suspect it's merely because people want it to be an immutable guarantee of basic freedoms, so they can point to it and say, "See? I'm right by this always-correct document". Every governing body wants something all-important they can point to, forever, to tell them what to do, and to blame if they later decide it's wrong.
Until they don't want it to be. Then it's full of / seriously lacking some socio-political fad.
Few attempting to change it progress past that stage, granted, and occasionally they are right in both uses, but it's far more often a legal weapon than it is a usable document.
I'm at least as in-the-dark about this as you, though I highly suspect it's merely because people want it to be an immutable guarantee of basic freedoms, so they can point to it and say, "See? I'm right by this always-correct document". Every governing body wants something all-important they can point to, forever, to tell them what to do, and to blame if they later decide it's wrong.
Until they don't want it to be. Then it's full of / seriously lacking some socio-political fad.
Few attempting to change it progress past that stage, granted, and occasionally they are right in both uses, but it's far more often a legal weapon than it is a usable document.