1 You can offer the same amount to all your employees, or associate how much vacation time they have with the number of years they have worked for you. 2  For instance, you can give everyone two weeks a year of paid vacation time, or let them accumulate one week for every year on the job. Depending on your business, employees who request time off only a week in advance could negatively impact your business. 2  Decide how long in advance you will need to plan for an employee absence, and ask for at least that amount of notice.
arbitrary. 1. Determined or marked by whim or caprice rather than reason: capricious, whimsical. 2. Based on individual judgment or discretion: discretionary, judgmental, personal, subjective. 3.
Language is arbitrary because we cannot predict which features will be found in any particular language; language is symbolic because the words humans speak are associated with objects, ideas, and actions. In any study of language or linguistics, there are several basic distinctions that should be noted. Not only do these distinctions underlie the study of language, but to some extent they also underlie the study of culture. The first distinction is between description and prescription.