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Back from Vacation and Refreshed!
At the risk of boring everyone who visits this blog, here's a vacation post. We returned to Toronto on the weekend from a tremendous vacation in San Francisco, Sonoma and Carmel. We squeezed everything we could out of this vacation...

SAVORING SUMMER VACATION: Why Your Brain Needs A Break. The average vacation in America now numb
SAVORING SUMMER VACATION: Why Your Brain Needs A Break. The average vacation in America now numbers a pathetic three to four days?a long weekend. And this year, according to a recent survey, one in seven Americans is taking no vacation at all...

Too Busy to Take Vacation Survey Says... $6.3 billion to employers
The Financial Post's article Too Busy to Take a Vacation describes our "relentless trend" to leave unused vacation time on the table with the effect of "putting $6.3 billion back into the hands of employers, or 41 million discarded vacation days nationwide, according to a study by Ipsos-Reid and Expedia...

"Want to Increase your Productivity Go on Vacation!"
This post was written by Nora Riva Bergman: "OK, I'm getting ready for a little vacation. You know what happens when you're getting ready to go on vacation? You go into hyper-focus mode, right? That's where I've been for the...

Florida Unpaid Vacation How can I collect
I did not get paid my Vacation pay, What can I do? Under Florida law, employees are entitled to make a claim for unpaid vacation pay that is vested. "Vested Vacation Pay" is defined as "wages" for purposes of section 448...

European Vacation
Fittingly, the arrival of summer brings news of vacation litigation.  The Columbus Dispatch reports on a new decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union.  In short, the Court of Justice ruled that workers who get sick on vacation are entitled to an extension of their vacation...

Lexmark to Pay $8.3M in Employee Vacation Class Action
Lexmark to Pay $8.3M in Employee Vacation Class Action