On 2/13/2016 10:42 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

`
Had an interesting situation a bunch of years ago: the #2 daughter and
my nephew both worked at basically the same jobs as travel agents.

The daughter in Philadelphia PA (USA) and the nephew somewhere in
Germany.

The daughter got paid for 40 hours but had to work whatever it took to
cover the calls. Busy at noon? You might get a few bites of lunch
down, you might not. If they worked through dinner into the night, the
employer didn't even send in sandwiches... they just went hungry.

And, of course, no vacation time, no retirement plan, no medical
coverage... no nothing....

Nephew's job was union. 40 hours pay for 40 hours work.... paid
overtime if he chose to accept it. Six (6!) weeks vacation, retirement
plan, full medical coverage.... You get the drift...



Europe definitely has better benefits. What was the wage scale though?
Could they both have the same style of living?