No, it doesn't. That would violate POSIX, which mandates that rmdir fails with ENOTDIR when called on a symlink.
Hm, I have to check that again, then I post exact results here again.Let me explain the problem... when you call, for example rmdir("/usr") on mint (which is NOT empty ;)), the symlink is deleted, while on linux it is not deleted (of course, it is no symlink under linux...).
Greets, Ole