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IMO, the Federal government shouldn’t be dictating to a business how much vacation time they offer their employees. Let the marketplace decide. If a business loses enough employees or has enough people declining job offers due to lack of paid vacation, then the business will wise up and start offering it.
That works in theory; however, if you have one large employer out in the sticks (think: coal mine or large Wal-Mart in Bumville, AK) then people don't necessarily have the luxury of quitting and finding employment elsewhere so easily.
Vacation policies in the US are generally atrocious. The Euro model works well and is something we should emulate.
06-11-2019, 10:22 AM 14,994 posts, read 24,062,647 times Reputation: 26547 Originally Posted by Suburban_GuyBut then the article says that 90 percent of American workers get paid vacation and holiday time. Every private company I have ever worked for, the past two decades, gave the workers paid vacation and holiday time. So what's the problem? Not guaranteeing something on paper doesn't mean it isn't going to happen.
Sure, only 40% of part timers may get such benefits, but they are part timers, not full time.
I currently get two weeks of paid time off, but that goes up after you serve a number of years, to an eventual max of five weeks. We also get paid holidays even if we don't work that day, and every year we also get the last week of December off, paid, as a company wide freebie holiday.
You see the dichotomy in statistics, you can change the rules of statistics to fit your argument. In this case - statistic includes part time workers, maybe they only work 1 day a week, maybe they only started a month ago. Not a fake statistics, it's just a misleading calculation, and portrayed in a way to create fake news.
Although not protected by law, 90% of private sector workers get paid time off in the US as you said, with the average being 16 paid days vacation and holiday a year. Not at European standards but hardly as described by the other statistic. You work for one of the few employees that don't pay for vacation? Solution is easy - find another job. As for me, I get some 5 weeks of vacation a year and an additonal 11 holidays. How did I get this? I paid my dues and made the correct life choices.