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GOP: “Filthy evil socialism by country, USA best #1, 0 Socialism, all hail glorious leader”
Yemen seems like a bad idea, so off to Libia I go!
I think in most countries there are different nuances when it comes to annual leave, which makes the numbers incomparable. For example, there are differences in whether weekends are counted as part of annual leave, even if the person doesn’t normally work weekends. Where I live, Saturday is usually counted as part of your leave unless a union agreement says otherwise.
Where I live there is this thing called 13th salary, basically extra salary on the end of the year, I guess it could be counted a paid leave since it is usually vacation
I guess they accounted for that. There are about 50 Saturdays in a year, if your kind of system was not accounted for, then there would be a clear outlier because of this.
France’s famous 35-hour-week law means that you legally have to get holidays in lieu of weekly hours worked over that number. In my job I worked (theoretically) 37.5 hours, which earned me 47 paid days off. Not including public holidays.
I think those 47 come from more than the 35h RTT, which generally add about 10 days to the 25 minimum. You probably have some additional branch agreements and company benefits.
I think this is a good statistic but I’d also recommend looking up the average amount of hours worked per country - I think that paints a better picture of how much time you’ll spend working.
I moved to Germany two years ago and the work has been fantastically human-centric, major life over work expectations, and I have no doubt that doesn’t apply to everyone in the country but it’s been very nice.
Curious American farmer here. Who provides the payment for the mandated paid leave? The state or the employer? How does this work for people who are self employed?
In Japan, employers who have permanent employees need to offer the paid leave. There are various schemes for other special types of leave and there is government assistance. There might be something from smaller companies, but I’m not sure. In Japan, the 10 days is only for 正社員 seishain full-time permanent employees. I think companies can also decide the dates for half of that for you, which is dumb.
Spaniard here. The employer, if you are self employed this doesn’t apply.
In Germany also the employer. If you are self employed, my understanding is that you don’t have a salary as such, so it doesn’t apply. But if you own your own company, where you work (as the CEO or whatever) and have a salary, that company pays you, even if you own it.
Another important point that these overviews don’t convey: if you are on vacation (be it abroad or at home) and you get sick, you get your paid leave time back and you can take it another time. There’s some asterisks attached to this, but generally that’s how it works. There’s a big emphasis on the text that your vacation days are yours. To regenerate, just relax or whatever you wanna do. So being sick “doesn’t count”, basically.
Color scale dumb af and USA is fucking backward.
USA, leader of the
freeindentured servitude world!Good grief, this map really puts it in perspective.
If you work at sea with a favourable contract, you can be off for 182 days a year.
The Divided States of Trashcanistan looking good again.
So a map that shows who is required to give the most time off. One can still give more than is required.
Yemen? Wasn’t expecting that.
Well this map also includes Sudan, I doubt it is possible/useful to make a statistic about a country that is at civil war.
US doesn’t have paid public holidays?
Not legally mandated paid holidays. Your employer is not required to give you PTO, sick leave, or paid holidays.
My husband applied for a high level management position at a nonprofit and they only sent him the benefits info after his 3 interviews and after he settled on pay. Turns out they only offered 6 days of holidays a year: Christmas Eve and Black Friday didn’t make the list. They offered him 1K more money, twice, but wouldn’t budge on the holiday pay. Fucking incredible if you ask me.
Nationwide mandated paid holidays + paid leaves, meaning no one get left behind.
Austria has the most in Europe in theory, but if they fall on a weekend then they dont matter. We dont do the thing that other countries do with “free day afterwards” in these cases.
Cannot understand American employer’s reluctance to give out PTO. Someone check my logic?
Regardless of PTO granted, the employer is going to be paying $X for 40-hours a week, 52 weeks a year. They’re out nothing!
The obvious counter is that they’re out that employees productivity. Now think about the places you’ve worked. Unless it’s a fairly high-end, specialized job, the work is getting done regardless. When someone on your team takes PTO, everyone else picks up the slack.
For a large company there is an argument to be made that they have to hire more people to fill in the rotating PTO gaps through the year. A new employee is a significant cost. Recruiting, advertising, HR and IT onboarding, training, and one no one thinks or knows about, the upfront costs of unemployment insurance.
