With the last long weekend of summer just days away, it’s time to face a tough reality: America is not good at taking vacations.
In fact, one report goes so far as to call the United States a “no-vacation nation,” thanks to the non-existent amount of paid vacation time mandated by federal law compared with other well-off countries, The Washington Post reports.
According to the study from Center for Economic and Policy Research, the European Union requires member countries to grant workers at least 20 days of paid vacation. But many nations go well above that number.
The U.S. mandates no paid vacation or paid holidays, which leaves 23% of Americans with no paid vacation and 22% without paid holidays. Many employers do offer vacation, however. According to the report, employers are granting paid vacation to 90% of full-time workers this year and 40% of part-time workers.
But even when Americans get paid time off, they don’t use it all. And when they do use their days—it may not come as a surprise to learn—many of them fail to leave work fully behind. Read the full story.
