by: Hillbilly

Sat May 28, 2011 at 17:47:52 PM EDT

The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation. European countries establish legal rights to at least 20 days of paid vacation per year, with legal requirement of 25 and even 30 or more days in some countries.

Australia and New Zealand both require employers to grant at least 20 vacation days per year; Canada and Japan mandate at least 10 paid days off.

The gap between paid time off in the United States and the rest of the world is even larger if we include legally mandated paid holidays, where the United States offers none, but most of the rest of the world's rich countries offer between five and 13 paid holidays per year. Read more.

Rightardia has known about this for many years because we had read the national wage and hour law. Not only does the wage and hour law not address vacations, it is also silent about holidays.

Believe it or not, Secular Human worked for a dyed in the wool Republican and his company did not let people off on the 4th of July.

How is that for patriotism.?

You could take the day off without pay, of course.

That particular company only offered three paid holidays per year. One at thanksgiving and two were at Christmas.

Wage an hour law requires that an employee be paid and also addresses work hours and overtime. It is about as bare bones a law as you will ever read!

source: Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

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