Must We Give Kids a Vacaton Every Year

[ToBeTheBestYouCan]

Hello,

As the man of the house and been unemployed for 15 years in a row, or at least only making just above or below minimum tax threshold income and my wife is too ill to work, I realise with the inflation monster there's nay way we can afford another family vacation for the next 10 years.

Just wanted to make certain this isn't breaking the law in anyway. Are kids entitled to a mandatory vacations every year or are vacations just a privilege for richer folks?

Best

Why have you been unemployed for 15 years if you do t mind me asking

Why have you been unemployed for 15 years in a row?

Of course they aren’t mandatory. Many of us never had a holiday as kids, plenty of kids still don’t.

Well I had a good business up to 15 years ago and spent another 5 years trying to make the good times return, but in reality the profits dwindled. Then came a few more years with poor health and before I knew it lockdown was approaching. Tried recently to retrain with the government bootcamp but jobs are scarce and they only pay self employed a first job ever wage, which less than social security in fact.

Come on.... surely you know it's not illegal to not give the kids an annual holiday.

I'm no lawyer, but I bet there's some federal penalty for not paying out the corporate holiday market! TBH I hated foreigners when I was younger!

If you are in the uk then any job if you work full time will bring in a better wage than you are on now. Your self employment obviously isn't working out so go work for a supermarket or anything you can get actually The man of the house needs to work. If you want a job then you can get one I'm sure It might not be the job you want but you can get one

Do you know how difficult it is to get a job in the UK, I applied for several hundred jobs and got no responses, tried everything secreterial, receptionist, sales, IT, retail, they all expect the candidate to be qualifid recently. When I was teenager you could walk into most jobs.or wash cars, collect trolleys, do a paper round. The supermarkets hire young people because they don't need to pay young people minimum wage. The salary tags are nonsense is all I have gleaned recently.

I'd love to put this to the test

Population doubled and the the shops are still the same.

Walk to the job centre and tell them you're not leaving till you get a job. Thought not !

That's about where we are, they're telling me to see another shrink, all I want is a bleeding job, taxi 🚕 is so expensive, so are they really earning or we just pay for them to sit around all day. You almost have to threaten them with suicide. They say 70% of jobs come from people you know, but I don't know many people anymore, I'm just too old and tired to socialise.