There is no federal or state statutory minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays. Paid leave is at the discretion of the employers to their employees.[202][203] According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 77% of private employers offer paid vacation to their employees; full-time employees earn on average 10 vacation days after one year of service.[204] Similarly, 77% of private employers give their employees paid time off during public holidays, on average 8 holidays per year.[204][205] Some employers offer no vacation at all.[206] The average number of paid vacation days offered by private employers is 10 days after 1 year of service, 14 days after 5 years, 17 days after 10 years, and 20 days after 20 years.[204][207] A number of states and non-states in the United States have instituted some form of paid leave with 10 states (California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts) along with the District of Columbia having mandatory paid family leave while 4 other states have a system but it is not yet active (Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota and Maine). Voluntary leave is in 8 states (Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, New Hampshire and Vermont).
Not for “essential” workers (food service, medical, etc). I didn’t even get any additional money for working over holidays at the Pharmacy. They threatened to fire me if I didn’t show up instead.
Yeah, there are a lot of comparisons like these that at least partially break down when you don’t consider the way the US is set up, re state governments.
Another big example is minimum wage. While the federal minimum is $7.25, it is a very small minority of places where it’s even possible to find (above-board, of course; if you work under the table, all bets are off) work at that low a wage, both because of the above (state minimum is higher) and because other market forces essentially negate it as the minimum, even in most places where $7.25 is in fact the legal minimum wage.
There’s a bit of nuance in the article:
That makes it even worse
…what? They are called public holidays
Not for “essential” workers (food service, medical, etc). I didn’t even get any additional money for working over holidays at the Pharmacy. They threatened to fire me if I didn’t show up instead.
None of that “nuance” changes anything though, there’s still no legally mandated holiday allowance in the United States.
Undercutting your point, that also means that 23% - nearly a quarter - do not offer paid vacation nor holidays to their employees.
Yeah, there are a lot of comparisons like these that at least partially break down when you don’t consider the way the US is set up, re state governments.
Another big example is minimum wage. While the federal minimum is $7.25, it is a very small minority of places where it’s even possible to find (above-board, of course; if you work under the table, all bets are off) work at that low a wage, both because of the above (state minimum is higher) and because other market forces essentially negate it as the minimum, even in most places where $7.25 is in fact the legal minimum wage.