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Paid Time Off From Work Around The World
Finns enjoy more paid statutory holiday every year than anyone else in the rich world, getting an average of 44 days off in which to relax (including annual leave and public holidays). Most European countries allow more than the EU legal minimum of four weeks. Even Britain, the most slave-driving, has an additional eight public holidays. And it’s not just Europeans who laze about; Cubans get 36 days off. By contrast, Japanese employees get 18 days off a year. But American workers have perhaps the most to feel aggrieved about: theirs is the only rich-world country that does not give any statutory paid holiday. (In practice, most workers get around 14 days off.) All work and little play does provide some consolation, however—America and Japan are the world’s biggest economies.
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Green light for re-using old graves
Councils will be allowed to exhume bodies and re-use graves because of a shortage of cemetery space, ministers have said.
Officials will normally be able to re-use burial plots which are more than 100 years old after seeking permission from surviving relatives.
But there could be a case for exhuming corpses after just 75 years “where available space is particularly short”, said the Ministry of Justice. And families who object to a relative’s grave being re-used will be allowed to defer the exhumation for “at least” a generation, justice minister Harriet Harman said.
The preferred way of re-using graves would be a “double decker”-style approach which involves lifting existing remains, deepening the grave and laying a new coffin on top.
Manhattan man sues over unwanted Boost
A man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized.
The lawsuit filed by Christopher Woods, of Manhattan, said he bought the nutrition beverage, which is made by the Novartis pharmaceutical company, at a drugstore on June 5, 2004, and drank it.
Woods’ court papers say he woke up the next morning “with an erection that would not subside” and sought treatment of the condition, called severe priapism. Woods, 29, underwent surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another.
Sounds like he had a hard time with this one.