Cursed GIS color scheme

It’s paid time off dude, these aren’t happiness stats

But also the US with zero paid days is like literally imploding. So maybe it has a little to do with happiness

“Mexican countries”. That’s where they speak Mexican, right? Peak US geography right here.

mexican countries???

A day off is not even remotely the same as paid time off.

There’s no excuse for the United States being the shit stain that it is.

While not all places will give PTO or weekly paid holidays, the US still has federal holidays that cause most businesses to close.

Not really accurate to count all federal holidays, and a lot of businesses don’t close even on the ones you can’t count.

Even people in essential fields are still required to take the day off if they are salary

Nah, people like healthcare workers still have to show up on holidays. Actually it’s often some of our busiest times of the year. We’re usually offered pto that we can choose to take some time else if we work on holidays.

There is no law, because essential fields or individual businesses can still be working. US should at least have 7 days for the 7 paid federal holidays.

There is only 6 holidays where the majority (77%) of American workers are offered some kind of PTO, and that’s only accounting for people who are working full time.

There is no law because America doesn’t care about its workforce. Other countries have essential employees as well, they are just compensated differently.

^leave it to Lemmy to down vote accurate information just to spread unnecessary hate for everyone’s hate boner.

Nah, there just plenty of people here who have had to work on holidays and know you are full of shit.

Also interesting reading the comments about how many other countries are wrong. I have a hunch this entire graphic is wrong.

I certainly would not be surprised if there are some inaccuracies, but of the comments I’ve read so far suggesting that the numbers don’t capture the truth appear to be misunderstanding what the data is showing (nationwide statutory paid time off and paid public holidays).

As an example, you mentioned the 7 paid federal holidays in the USA. But similar to some of the other observations in question, those aren’t what this graphic is capturing. Outside of government jobs and maybe certain industries, those 7 public holidays are not required by statute on a nationwide level – it’s not even close to applying to everyone. Even if we agree that most jobs give people paid time off (but not because they are legally required to) or that some states require it, that’s still not what this graphic is showing, so those don’t make the 0 in any way inaccurate.

In my home state I “earn” one paid hour sick time for every 30 hours worked. I get no other paid time off because it isn’t required by law. Working for the same company in a different state I get exactly zero paid time off because that state doesn’t have a law requiring it. Tell me again how that isn’t zero paid time off.

You’re not wrong. I have >30 paid days off a year when you include the holidays, but a lot of my peers have zero. They don’t understand what it means to wake up one morning and just be like… nah, I don’t want to go to work today.

not even independence day. absolute cucks to capitalism.

TBF, the last time I worked a job that offered no PTO was before COVID.

These days people won’t except minimum wage shit jobs with no benefits. If a job becomes too shitty or demanding, Americans just quietly quit and move on to the next thing.

land of the free ™!

The employee. It’s a cost of doing business. Just like overtime, sickpay and superannuation. Massive fines in Australia if you don’t adhere to them.

The govt funds an ombudsman that helps employees enforce their workplace rights.

The employer, as they should. Obviously if you are a farmer who owns the farm, it might be a little different. We have a rancher in our family and they don’t really get days off, although they can get someone else to do the chores while they go on vacations or what not.

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.

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.

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.