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

A lot of hourly workers are part timers, usually by their design. Maybe they are a parent, a student, work seasonal jobs, are working for a temp agency. Thing is they have the freedom to move on just like any of us. Also you get paid overtime as hourly, most salary workers I know of don't.

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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.