[longjack]

So Germany, who has a retirement age of 67 and only gets paid for the actual number of days in the year

Vacation and Christmas bonuses (13th and 14th month) may be available to some workers in Germany. It depends on the employer and how you negotiate your contract. Christmas bonuses (13th month) are pretty common, I believe. It may not be 100% of monthy pay, though.

Some firms may only pay 12 months, but include vacation and Christmas bonuses as extras in each monthly check, or make one month's check a double pay check

I would say it is not unusual in Germany to get an extra month or two pay in some form.

[agere_contra]

Wow. Thanks for the information.

Here in the UK, in a good year (so not recently!) we would get a Christmas bonus roughly equivalent to one day’s pay.

[darkside321]

Well i´m not 100% shure for Germany (But i think it´s the same there) because i live in Austria. But the “13th and 14th” month pay is law here. So every employer has to pay it.

[autumnraine]

While it may not be uncommon for “firms” to pay 13 or 14 months in Germany, I am speaking of PUBLIC employees in Greece. Government workers.