re: Paid Holidays/Vacation Days in the U.S. Versus Other OECD Countries

With paid holidays and vacation, I get 29 days off, not to mention I'm off every Friday

Sorry for you fast food workers

30 days paid vacation? What the heck am I going to do with that? No way I'm missing 30 days of work plus holidays. I'd be constantly catching up, working twice as hard to make up for lost time. I get 15 days now plus holidays and never use them all. Of course, some of us actually like our jobs and want to work hard.

I get 26 weeks off per year, but work through whatever holidays happen to fall on my schedule.

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This used to be incentive to better yourself, work your way up, or get a better job

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Truth. Everyone wants everything handed to them. Someone earlier said that people don't want to work anymore. I'm seeing more and more of that. It's so frustrating. Nothing gets done. I'm starting to wonder if it is just a Louisiana thing or not.

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not to mention I'm off every Friday

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well you can just frick off

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salaried workers get paid holidays. but many hourly wage workers get nothing. For example, no work on Christmas, no pay. This used to be incentive to better yourself, work your way up, or get a better job. Nowadays it's just an excuse to give undeserving people more benefits and "livable wages."

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The problem with this line of thinking is that now the government is mandating to employers what jobs can and cannot be salaried. I work in retail banking. When I was first hired 10 years ago, my job was a salaried job. 5 years ago, Uncle Sam stepped in and mandated that everyone at my position must be hourly. The concern being that we were being taken advantage of.

Of course, this screws me. I have to punch a clock. If my daughter has something at school I want to see, I have to clock out. I preferred a salaried job. If I wanted an hourly wage, I would work at a place that offered one.

I'm up to 4 weeks of PTO, and 2 weeks of sick time per year. I'm quite happy with what I get.

That graph is ridiculous. As the article states:

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The U.S. federal government dictates that employees are given exactly zero paid holiday and vacation days a year.

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That means the chart must contribute some sort of averages to come up with the 10 days Annual Leave since it is not a requirement and not everyone is given paid annual leave. However, they do not include anything for Paid holidays. Seeing as just about every industry (w/ the exception of food & retail) gives paid holidays to their workers, not all but most workers, they have to have some sort of average higher than 0.

AND, when you consider the number of people who receive more than 2 weeks (every job I have had has given at least 2 weeks when you walk in the door and can get as high as 4-5 weeks w/ seniority), that number should be much higher than 10, if it's an average.

I get 6 weeks of PTO and 3 floating holidays