Countries with the MOST & LEAST number of paid days off per year
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Sitting on the couch and watching this during my third summer vacation week. We get 5 weeks (4 weeks for the summer and 1 for the winter) in total here in Finland. Some companies allow your to swap your holiday bonus pay to extra vacation days. So in total, you can get 7 weeks of PTO days + plus all the paid public holidays. If I'm not mistaken, there are 5-10 public holidays depending on which weekday the holidays land on every year.
5 weeks standard. 1 for personal development granted by my employer and i get a salary bump which i can use to buy a total of extra 5 weeks if i want or I can go for the cash.
Sick or dentist will not dip into your days.
Paid delivery leave (months). Paid parental leave (x days per month for a year).
Finland was the first country that came to my mind! I'm from Canada and can confirm we're on the low to mid end. 2 weeks plus ~10 holiday days is pretty standard here. Then once every ~5 years you might get 1 week more.
Side note: many, many people here consider Finland, Norway, Sweeden and Denmark to be the best countries in the world.
I was thinking that Austria takes ages to give you 30 days annual leave as we only need to have been working over a year to same employer to start getting the full 30 days. Then there is the "pekkanen" which is 12.5 days if you're working hourly job.
But isn't your salary lower than the rest of Europe?
@@l_7376 Nope. In average annual net earnings (2023) Finland was no. 10 out of about 35 in Europe, just a little behind Austria and Germany.
Germany: Almost nobody has only the vacation days stipulated in the law. The law only provides the basis for the collective agreement between employers and unions. Most people have six weeks, i.e. 30 days. You have the right (and very often the obligation) to take two weeks in a row at least once a year. In addition, there are public holidays depending on the federal state (10-13 days)
If you work in Augsburg city you get 16 public holidays! Guess where I work? 😮
also some companys and most jobs in the public sector have the 1-3 days for birth, death, even adoption (actual days depending on the degree of relationship and the age of the adopted child) and day(s) to move/relocate.
There is also a legal entitlement to get an part-time contract.
You get additional 5 days off (per law) if you have a disability of 50% or more.
This is all based on a 37,5 - 42 hour in 5 days work week.
There also are laws how long you can work continously until a break, and max amount of 10 hours per workday, and how long the "resting-time" between 2 shifts has to be.
In principle all germans can be oblidged to jury duty and election helper (both would be public services which your employer has to give you the free time for. Additionally you would be compensated at least the spent time the public service took in leisure compensation. (because of the complexity of compensation between Public Service / private company, almost only public workers are used.
@@rootgremlin2746 Yesterday was my day off for 25 years with TARGOBANK 😃
And we have to take the vacation, our bosses will be at our necks, if we don't take the vacation and reduce our overtime.
Working in Düsseldorf or Köln might give you an extra 2 Days for Rosenmontag and Altweiber. Thats what my Employer does. Love it. :-)
Hi from the UK.. I get 26 leave days + 8 public holidays. We are also entitled at my company 2 moving house days (every 5 years) + paid dependency days (for sick parents/children etc). When I lost my mum I was also given 2 weeks compassionate leave.
Sometimes I feel like quitting the company - this has reminded me how lucky I am. 😊
Oh a sick days aren’t a thing. If your sick you are sick and you get sick pay
Minimum statutory paid leave is 28 days, not 26.
@@Poliss95 Per the gov's website, An employer can include bank holidays as part of statutory annual leave.
Just adding to this that, even though the minimum is 20 days + bank (public) holidays, the majority of office jobs in the UK offer 22-25 in addition to the bank holidays. Some go up to 30 or more. I'm at 25 ATM.
Sick days aren't guaranteed by law beyond statutory where you are paid a small amount by the government, but many companies offer sickness absence with full pay. Usually it's up to 2 weeks (10 days).
@@Poliss95 28 days including public holidays
@@stevemichael8458 Government website:
Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday.
Bank holidays
Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave.
An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.
Florida bestie here! The toxic job I left last month offered 6 paid holidays, and 5 PTO days in the first year (scaling up to about 15 days after 7 years with the company, which was VERY small, to my knowledge there’s 1 person other than the CEO who’s even been there that long). Just interviewed with another company in the same field that doesn’t allow you to use OR accrue PTO until after the first year, unsure of holidays.
And this is in mental health, of all industries you would think they would understand the importance of providing time off for mental well-being and a balanced lifestyle💀
US employee here and I found it pretty interesting how some of the other countries gave MORE time to their public sector employees. I have worked for private corporations and my last one gave really good time off. I had 25 days of PTO + 5 personal holidays, 8 public holidays and unlimited sick time. Now I work for government and I get 15 PTO days and 15 sick days, but of course, calling in sick is frowned upon. I still get about 8 paid holidays as well. Government is decent about giving the holiday itself off but not the "extras" like New Years Eve and Black Friday. If anyone reading this is wondering why I left my private sector job for government work: stability! I feared losing my job every Friday, layoffs were a constant threat to the point I was sick and having panic attacks regularly. There's non-monetary value in having constant, stable and relatively low-stress work.
If you earned sick leave, who cares if it is frowned upon....no use accruing it when you retire.
Australia - 20 days holiday, 7 days national, and 20 days full pay "personal" leave (can be used for caring for someone or sick,) and if needed 10 days for domestic abuse every year. Total 57 days plus another 5 if you factor in the long service leave. You accumulate all leave every year, unlimited if not taken, after 10 years you get long service leave, another 50 days. Most companies are relaxed on sick leave, just need a doctors note which are free and all doctors will give them. Also have additional maternity and paternity and bereavement leave.
Plus leave loading on Annual leave, so you get paid more.☺️
Only if you get leave. So many people are now contractors with no paid leave.
and if you're in the Commonwealth you get 9 days long service per year once you qualify
The way my Long Service worked is.... Leave a company before you've worked there for 7 years - get no Long Service Leave. Leave between 7-10 years - get paid out at 1.3 weeks per year you worked. After 10 years at the same company - you've accumulated 13 weeks (including weekends) worth of holidays, with another 1.3 weeks added after every year. You could take it at anytime, in week lots, minimum of 2 weeks. You could choose to be paid out for all or some (in week lots) which could really help for a down payment on a house. Or you can add it to your 4-5 week Annual Leave and have a really long holiday.
Can you get pay out at the end of the year
Ooo when I saw this title I clicked immediately 👀 in the U.S. at my job I have 10 days of pto, all federal holidays off, and 8 sick days. But it really varies. Some of my friends have 3 weeks off and some have “unlimited”. One of my friends jobs has sick days and vacation days pooled together so if she gets sick she can take less vacation in the year 😢 I’d love to see one of these videos comparing maternity/paternal leave policies around the world!
"sick days"? What happens if you are rude enough to catch something bad and get sick for more than 8 days?
@Tech_Enthusiast_001 Most places in the US, you have to get a doctors note excusing your absence for more than a day or two; if the employers accept it and if you have sick time it'll be paid if not unpaid. Most places will still have you come in sick, even if you shouldn't out of public health; restaurants, daycares, nursing homes etc
@@Tech_Enthusiast_001 you don't get vacation 🤷🏻♀️ I have a chronic illness and my employer dispenses PTO by pay period, which immediately goes towards my doctors appointments, so I never accumulate enough to take an actual vacation. I'm treating myself to a three day weekend this year and that's about it.
@@CPD7631 That sounds terrible. The US is really like the worst for human rights and such stuff.... all for the big corps, screw the middle class I guess.
By law companies have to pay 30 sick days IN A ROW (more over the year) and after that you get paid by the social system... you never get unpaid because you are sick,.... that just sounds, uhm. Sick lol.
@@Tech_Enthusiast_001 yeah I know it’s a messed up system :( I think if you got sick for a longer time you’d go on short term or long term disability and still be employed by your company but at a reduced salary (or maybe no salary but you’re guaranteed your job back when you’re recovered? 🤔) but I’m not fully sure since I can’t recall the policies off the top of my head!
Germany here: there is also a additional 5 day paid holiday if you have a disabled grade 50%+. Some parts of Germany have up to 13 public holidays (mainly in the south). BUT no employer I ever heard of offers less than 26days holiday. Plus ofc extra days off for moving, own wedding, loss of relatives etc. All of this sums up pretty quickly to some nice 6-7 weeks off a year.
My husband has 34 days holiday and me as a teacher I have comfortable 14 weeks holiday per year.
Same, even though the minimum is 20, I've never heard of a company that offers less than 25 days, except very small ones of less than 10 employees for instance. I have 30 days + 13 public holidays (in Bavaria) and took extra 3 days for my wedding, 2 for moving last year. Overtime is converted to vacation days as well.
I'm from Germany too. I have NEVER seen an employer who offers less than 30 days. I have seen a company offering 32 days and one 35.
Also, you have extra PTO days offered for moving houses, your wedding, your spouse giving birth, death of a family member in all companies I've ever seen.
And you also have Kinderkrankengeld which allows you a certain amount of days as paid sick leave when your child is sick.
🇱🇰 Sri Lankan bestie here! 🙋🏽♀️ But we are hardly allowed to take full week vacations several times a year. We make "Long weekends" longer. However in certain industries you get around a 10-day vacation during Sri Lankan New Year. Currently in 🇩🇪 Germany and you take 2 weeks vacation and no one bats an eye. Love it!
From Canada here. New employees get a minimum of 2 weeks after the first year, plus statutory holidays. The number of vacation days goes up the longer you stay with a company with many senior employees getting around 6 weeks.
Unless you are in Saskatchewan. Minimum is three weeks. This year I have 73 pdo.
It also depends on when you start a new job if you get paid for the 1st holiday after starting work. Must work a min of 30 days before the holiday to get paid for it. After that you get paid for holidays or if you have to work on the holiday you get another paid day off in leu of.
Canada here as well. I get 7 weeks and all stats as well as PTO between Christmas and New Year. I've been there for 16 years - we also have a union.
@@michellehill4148 That's really sweet! I wish I was unionized too.
in Poland we have 20 days if you've worked for less than 10 years and 26 if you've worked for more 10, BUT your highschool/uni years are included in that 10 (depending on what level you finished at of course). 4 days from that pool can be used as what we call "leave on demand" and this is for emergencies, you don't have to get permission for them at all, you just have to inform the employer that you will be off. also, we are required by the law to use all of the vacation days (until 30.09 of the next year) and at least 10 of these days have to be taken consecutively (so that you get minimum 2 full weeks off).
You forget about 2 days (or 16 hours) if you have child under 14, additional days (1 or 2) for special situation (marriage, newborn, death in the nearest familie) 😀
And one correction - we don't have to take 2 weeks off in a row - most companies state it's true and regulated by the law, but it is not ;) also, when you can receive a holiday bonus - it's not true they will pay it only when you take 2weeks off ;)
@@Anita-gk7ic you are probably right, as a young childfree person I never looked into that 😅
@@Anna-it9fk no, that is not correct, it is mandatory ("co najmniej jedna część urlopu powinna trwać nie mniej niż 14 kolejnych dni kalendarzowych" www.biznes.gov.pl/pl/portal/00134)
@Anna-it9fk no, that is not correct, it is mandatory ("co najmniej jedna część urlopu powinna trwać nie mniej niż 14 kolejnych dni kalendarzowych")
Frenchy here 😆. So here's a bit more information regarding the basics of PTO's in France (excluding branch/union/company agreements):
- For a full-time (35h/week) permanent contract, you aggregate "regular" paid days off at a rate of 2.5 each month (or 2/mo if you are on a nonwork related medical leave, full rate if work related medical leave). The aggregation period starts from June 1st until May 31st. This will give you a total of 30 paid days off for 12 months, translating to 5 weeks in total (you may notice the calculation is technically wrong, but it's a quirk between "mon-fri" week and "mon-sat" week). However, it may not be as much of the 1st year depending when you start your new job i.e.: If you join on May 1st 2025, you'll only have 2 paid days off from June 1st 2025 until May 31st 2026, meaning you'll only have your full 30 days from June 1st 2026 up to May 31st 2027.
- Regular PTO's have to be used in at least 2 periods, the first of which cannot exceed 4 weeks.
- We indeed have 11 paid holidays. Actually, unless you benefit from a specific agreement, (branch, union) you only have 10 days as one is used for what is called Solidarity Day (unpaid) which is used to finance initiatives towards autonomy for the elderly and disabled people.
- We do a lot of PTO optimization. For 2025, using only regular PTO's and paid holidays, you can get up to 57 days of PTO. I can be full weeks or longer weekends. However, it will prevent you from taking a 3-week-long vacation, as most days will be scattered throughout the year. But some of us also have JRTT's to help with the optimization😋.
- If you work more than 35h/w (up to 39) you can be entitled, depending on your job (mostly white collar) and branch/union agreements, to JRTT's (Journées de Récupération du Temps de Travail) or recuperation days aggregated from Jan 1st to Dec 31st. Depending on your branch/union collective agreement and the number of hours worked a week over 35hrs, you can usually get between 9 and 15 JRTT's. In my previous job, I used to work 37,5 hrs/w and got 15 JRTT/yr (which added to my regular PTO's gave me a total of 8 paid weeks off before optimization 😜).
- You also receive more PTO's in case of family related events (excluding maternity/paternity leave):
-- Birth of a child = + 3 days (unclear for twins if it's per child or per labor)
-- Adoption of a child = + 3 days (also unclear for twins if it's per child or per adoption)
-- Your wedding or legal partnership = + 4 days (for as many ceremonies, although no days given for divorces lol)
-- Wedding of your child = + 1 day
-- Death of a child = + 12 days (can be up to 14 days depending on conditions)
-- Mourning days = + 8 days. In the case of the death of a child and depending on conditions, an extra 8-day mourning period can be requested and has to be taken within 1 year of the death.
-- Death of other family member = + 3 days. This includes your significant other, direct siblings, parents or stepparents if actually married (legal partnerships are excluded)
-- Sick child = Between 3 and 5 days per year (depending on situation)
-- Grave medical issue = + 5 days. If your child has been diagnosed with a handicap or a grave medical issue (usually life-threatening).
We also have a sort of PTO savings account where we can put aside some days for specific things like trainings, or we can also give some to colleagues, for example in case of the death of a child.
Those are mostly the basics but can be complemented with branch/union/company agreements. In my previous company, I had an extra day off for my birthday that I had to take within 30 days. I'm gonna miss this one in my new job.
Yes, we are pretty lucky, but we fought for those (yes STRIKES lol). 🤣🤣
Having at least 3 weeks of paid time off has been the norm for almost 100 years now.
Not always 11 paid holiday if some fall on a Sunday then you dont get an extra one.
Norwegian here. If you work full time and are under 60 years you get 5 weeks of vacation. Over 60 years you got 6 weeks of vacation. Holidays are paid days off if it falls on your normal working day. And you get vacation money between 10 and 12 percent. And you can self declare 3 days, 4 rimes a year for sickness. Anything more, you need a doctors note.
Dutchie here! As someone also stated here, the minimum what people usually get is 25 days. Excluding public holidays, that would be around a minimum of 5, if we count that some will fall during the weekend (first christmas day, second christmas day, easter, pentacoast, kingsday, new years day). This will be around 30 PTO days in total. I currently have 40 days without public holidays, so around 45 in total :-). My husband has a total of around 38.
Also an important note we have unlimited sick days. Even when your on your holidays and you get sick, you can call into work. They will refund your pto and will report you to sick leave! :D
Dutch too. My worst job was 25 days, my best so far was 42 days. Currently at 38. Not counting national holidays of course.
another dutch i have 41 days not incl national days
The statutory minimum is however 20 days. Most companies offer more due to company regulation or Collective Labour agreement. Employers are not obliged to pay public holidays. Most people get paid 5 public holidays (as the other public holidays are in the weekend). Paid short time care leave if needed 2× the amount of your workinghours per week (paid 70%). Paid adoption and paid foster care leave: 6 weeks around the time of arrival of the child. Calamity leave (urgent unplanned situation f.e. broken water pipe at home) few hours up to a few days. Legislation on special leave (death of a family member, marriage etc.) is in the making. I have to correct some of my fellow Dutchmen who claim NL has no limitation on sick days: after 2 years employer does no longer have the obligation to pay out employee and during these first 2 years of sick leave employer is obliged to pay out at least 70% of the employee's wage
Note that for Kenya, people often work over 40 hrs per week or 6 days per week, so it's not that many days off considering.
In Romania you get 21 days off when you first start working with a maximum of 15 national days, depending if they land in a weekend or not. You get 10 days off if you're getting married, 3 days if your child gets married and if you have a death in the family, between 3 to one days off. Sick days are granted by the doctors, not by the company and they have to pay 75% of your salary in that time. After 3 months of medical leave the salary is affected but I forgot how. And, by the way, if a man becomes a father be get 4 weeks off after the birth.
I hope I did not forgot smth.
oh and the best part is that as a woman you get 126 days Maternity leave and then you get to stay in parental leave until the baby is 2yo.
Cu pofta!
I’m in the US, I get 30 days of PTO because I’ve been with the same company for 25 years. When I first started, it was 10. Sick days are included in that time, so if you get sick, you’re screwed. We’re pretty strongly discouraged from using our time off, or at least working while on vacation, and no one covers for you if you take time off. It’s not good, but nowhere in the US is.
No sick leave? Amazed it’s even legal.
I hear you. International Paper in Tennessee was stingy. I'd taken off too much sick time.....taking care of my dad in hospital with Parkinson's..... I asked for family leave which I used three weeks of. I came back to work for 6 weeks .....Then I got sick..... he went back into hospital..... was told I couldn't miss even though I had four more weeks of PTO. I quit.
@@Cancionera40 We get sick leave, it's just included in what you get as your total PTO
In 14 of the 16 German states there is a law that gives employees 5 additional paid days off a year (or 10 every 2 years) for the so called „Bildungsurlaub“ („educational holidays“). There are lots of rules to this but basically you get 1 week to use for education - learn a language, about history/politics/economics or even how to do yoga.
For me it is: 30 days regular PTO + 2 days (per my contract) + PTO on Dec 24th and 31st + 12 holidays + 5 days Bildungsurlaub. That‘s 51 in total of paid days off.
Geez... 30 days after 25 years...
For comparison, first of all sick days don't exist in my country, if you're sick you're sick. Legal vacation days are 20, but nobody gets so few. I'm at 38 now, not including national holidays, after working exactly 0 years for the company. Indeed, this is the starter package.
Old (35 YOE), US-based. For most of my career in private industry, it was 10 days after the first year with a company (increasing by 1 week every 5 years, topping out at 4-6 weeks/year). Yes, it was common to have no PTO until you'd been there a year. This turned into a common pre-employment negotiation point & companies would generally allow you to start with 3 weeks/year without much complaining. The past couple of years have seen a fairly widespread adoption of total-experience based PTO schedules (2 weeks/year for entry level, up to 6 weeks/year for 20+ YOE). Paid holidays hover in the 10-12 days/year, depending on geography.
I'm from the Netherlands. Legal minimum is 20 days, but most get 25 at least (apart from public holidays). I get 32 days. Surprised to not see us on the list!
Because the United States government doesn't give a crap about workers. Only what they produce.
You forgot the public holidays, which are 6 (Christmas 2 days, new year, 2nd Easter, 2nd Pentecost and Kingsday).
Loe made a selection of countries she was interested in, Netherlands apparently wasn't on her radar. And compared with some EU countries, we do pretty poorly.
@@TheEvertw for me those are included in the 32 days. But true, some have those separate.
Remember "ADV" (reduction of working hours). You're supposed to be getting that also, unless you work for a temp agency.
@@marcbloemen2082Correct. Usually you just combine those, but strictly speaking I get 25 vacation days, 13 ADV and 6 national holidays.
Greetings from Russia!
We have up to 20 public holidays (depend on the year) plus 28 calendar days of paid vacations. If you’re a teacher, you’ll have 56 vacation days.
Not to mention that maternity leave officially is up to 3 years and in the private sector companies, especially IT compete for employees with benefits, where you get paid during a part of your maternal leave and companies pay you for each child birth.
There is one caveat. You aren't entitled to vacation until 6 months of working for that particular company.
although, at most companies are worked with, you can arrange something despite that rule. Also in most places your days off arent' "burned" at the end of a year, so you could in theory just let them stack. It is generally frowned upon to take more than 2 weeks off in a row, depending on your boss, but honestly who would want that anyway.
also out sick days aren't limited, you just call and say you are sick, people generally believe you on your word, although they are entitled to ask for a doctors note (which you can get for free, we do have free healthcare)
United States: I am 72. I have seen the number of PTO days decrease over my lifetime. When I was a child, the father (most moms didn't work) got at least 2 weeks. The factories in the town I lived in closed for 2 weeks in the summer and every employee got that as PTO plus an additional week at a time of their choosing after one year of employment. The longer you worked there the longer the additional time. I did have one job as an adult that gave me 4 weeks. Most jobs were less or none. I taught school for part of my career and your pay was determined on the basis of a full year even though you did not work in summer. There was no PTO. You did get 3-5 sick days. You could donate 1 day a year ro a fund and people who donated could draw from the fund for emergencies.
In California here! From what I have seen/read, if the company has less than 25 employees, they're not legally mandated to give ANY pto, and only the 4 major holidays. If they're 25+ employees, then they must provide like 3 or 5 days per year. Holidays are totally up to the company
That doesn’t seem right, but if it is, do companies generally not offer more than 5 days of PTO?
Hello there.. I work for a US company that's based in Malaysia. PTO is based on years of service, which is anywhere between 14-24 days. On top of that, we get an average of 16-20 public holidays a year. In order to set itself apart from the other companies, our company also offers extra leave like Carer's leave (5 days if we need to take some time to take care of sick kids/parents/pets); Marriage leave (3 days coz some of us have to travel for the event) and Study/ Exam leave (5 days) which are not mandated by law. These extras make us employees feel appreciated as it's like the company realises that life happens... Also, if we have to work weekends because of tight deadlines, then we get a replacement leave, which we can take anytime before the end of that year.. I know so many of my colleagues who haven't been able to finish their PTO because if this.
India here- 26 Earned Leaves, 10 public holidays and 6 days of sick leaves. I work in IT.
We also get 180 days of paid maternity leave and 2 weeks of paternity leave. Bereavement leaves for deaths in immediate family 5 days. Adoption leaves are also given.
Poland here :) 20 days if you work less than 10 years in total (but university degrees count as 8 years) so in reality you work for 2 years after graduation and you have 26 days of PTO. People with disabilities get additional 10 days a year. In addition to that 10 days of public holidays (and if holiday is on Saturday you get this day back in lieu), 2 additional days for childcare (aside from that you can take sick leave 80% paid up to 60 days a year for sick kid) also you can take up to 14 days of sick leave to care for family members and it’s 80% paid. For employees themselves it’s up to 182 days of sick leave a year and it’s also 80% paid, except for pregnancy sick leaves which are 100% paid.
And it’s mandatory here to take 10 consecutive working days off in a year to get proper rest, companies are very strict about that because fines for denying employees to take a break are hefty.
And unused vacation days can be used next year.
And people on maternity leave (about a year) are eligible for the vacation days so when you come back you have it double :)
We also have additional days off for some situations like birth of a child, death of a relative, wedding. Fathers get 14 days of paid leave after their child is born and 9 weeks of parental leave.
In the USA, for my first 22 years, I started with 30 days PTO and 11 holidays in the military. I was also able to request 3 and 4-day "long" weekends that did not count against my PTO. Plus, accumulated PTO up to 90 days rolled over any given year. This allowed me to take 90 days vacation at the end of my career and start my new career while still employed in the military. Since I started my new job 2 weeks after starting my terminal vacation, this ended up providing me with full income from 2 jobs for 2.5 months. This made the transition to civilian life much easier.
In my next 26-year career my PTO ranged from 24 to 26 days PTO, 11 holidays, & 12 sick days. We also get 3 community involvement days off and 1 personal day of observance, our own personal holiday.
Neither job was the most in the world, but suitable for my needs.
Many Military members are in Commands where 30 days leave does not equal 30 days off from work. You want Friday & Monday off and you are normally off on weekends, the weekend is charged as well for a total of 4 days used, even though you were already off work on the weekend.
In India, there is a pre-published calendar with a list of public/religious holidays. As per the law, all companies are required to give at least 10 paid holidays based on this calendar.
My company provides 15 vacation days, 8 casual days and 10 sick days per year, which will be carried forward to next financial year if unused (except the sick days).
As i've been working with my employer for over 4 years now, my accumulated vacations + casual days are now at 54, which I can use however I want. If you stay with your company for long time, you will be rewarded with longer vacations
Hello & good morning to all of you. Thank you Loe for picking this specific topic and share the information with your besties. I would not have thought Panama or Sri Lanka had so many PTO. When you presented 20 days minimum for Germany I was a little shocked and run a quick check but you are right this applies for 5-day-business-week.
Australia - 20 days annual leave (vesting), 15-20 days (non-vesting) personal leave (sick, carer’s, etc), 10-14 paid public holidays. Australia also has long service leave (vesting) - 90 day full pay leave after 10 years service (with same employer) prorata after 10 years. Maternity leave is also legislated. Plus other leave depending on employer.
my lazy Austrian a** sitting in home office and being surprised that we are at the top of this list (and btw we also have the extraordinary leave for passing away of relatives/moving/giving birth)
in the UK legally the government has to give you 20 days not including bank holidays but most companies start around the 22-25 mark and increase with service years.
I began my career in Minnesota there, it was always 10 days off no matter how many hours you worked; these 10 hours included sick days so you were screwed if you got sick.
However, CTO did not include hospitality industry workers.
Not only that in Minnesota for women, there was a glass ceiling, a very very heavy unbreakable glass ceiling.
In 2003 my family left Minnesota for Michigan; in Michigan I have always had 15 days CTO which could but may not include sick days.
I guess it makes sense, Michigan is the state of where the unions are.
Im in the US. I have worked retail most of my life. Most places give zero paid vacation, personal, or sick days for non-management employees; unless required to by state law. I only started getting sick time in the last three years because of state law.
Australia here, healthcare worker. Every 12 months I get 20 days personal leave, 25 days annual leave, 1 accrued day off every four weeks, and for those of us that have worked 7+ years, an additional 8 days off for long service leave (it's a British colony thing). Not to mention about 10 or so public holidays.
USA here, in my 14 years in the corporate world, I've had up to 25 days at my last company before leaving. Getting to this current organization, I started with 15 days but the company adopted an unlimited PTO policy, so obviously the days don't really matter anymore. However, your point about culture and the extreme overload of work means people rarely take their days off, thus saving the company their costs. Generally, in my past life, most of the company (HQ at least) would take almost all of December off because we never took time during the year and had to take it or lose it (they didn't pay out). That was the best time to actually work because you could really get stuff done :)
In Brazil, we get 30 vacation days by law after every full year.
We also have about 10 national holidays but also several other local holidays, depending on the city or state.
Also, since we our salary is monthly and not every month has the same amount of days, we have a "13th month" at the end of the year to compensate for the extra work where we receive a full month of our salary. So, basically, between november/december, employees receive double their monthly income.
Romanians are often proud of their free days too, surprised it didn't make the list. I think you have a minimum of 20 paid days off work, companies advertise themselves by saying they offer 21+. You then have the 10-12 paid public holidays - some jobs might require you to work during those days, but they are required by law to compensate with +100% of that day's work or to give you the day off any other day in the following month. After all that, you get 3-5 paid days off whenever: you're getting married, your kids get married or if any member of the close family passes away (spouse, offspring).
I am really glad to be living in the EU. It is great, that we have similar rules when it comes to paid leave, so that we can visit each other countries. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
US here. It highly depends on the industry you are in, and each company will handle it differently. Some companies separate vacation and sick time, others lump it all together under PTO. If you are in a professional industry, you are more likely to be offered substantial PTO. I'm a CPA. At my firm, every level starts with 4 weeks, plus we have 13 or so paid holidays in top of that. I'm currently at 5.5 weeks. My firm will also only require you to use PTO if you are going to be working less than 4 hours that day, so you don't end up needing to use it for doctors appointments and things like that. Plus they are also randomly give us extra paid holiday time, like we usually get July 4th and 5th off but this year we also got July 3rd just because they felt like it. They are also very generous with maternity and paternity leave, adoption leave, etc. This is all fairly common in public accounting. Other industries they routinely get nothing at all, even sick time, unless your state requires a minimum.
😂 I have been at my job for 16 years and maxed out on allowances for time off. In one business year I’m paid 4 paid sick days & 5 weeks paid vacation - no $ pay out if I don’t use them so YES I do use them all! 😊 USA - NJ - retail job. Paid off Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bereavement- 5 days off with pay for immediate family member
Australia also has 2 days paid bereavement leave each occassion, 10 days paid sick leave, 10 days domestic violence leave, 10 days paternity leave, 18 weeks maternity leave, and long service leave after 7-10 years that keeps accruing indefinately.
I have never heard of time off for domestic violence. I've heard of it called out in disability or acceptable reasons for sick leave
Unlimited PTO for the win!
Correct me if I’m wrong. When you have unlimited PTO, you don’t get paid out the unused days if you quit or get fired?
Example: if you have 3 weeks of PTO and you get laid off without using those days, you get a severance plus the payout for the unused PTO.
@@BisongArtGallery100% correct. It's a benefit that doesn't really benefit the employee...
The youth of the US are fed. Not a single vacation day. It does depend on the job situation but usually new employees are just screwed.
There are a lot of companies who don’t pay for any time off depending on what you do. I used to groom dogs and we didn’t get anything paid. Not even health insurance. The shop closed on major holidays so they didn’t pay. Since you work per animal you groom, you don’t get paid if you aren’t there. Now I work for the county and I have worked up to earning 20 hours pto every month. We don’t have separate sick and vacation hours they are just under the same thing.
I worked in Central Florida. My employer decided to combine vacation and sick leave together. I was able to take numerous vacations and take leave for sick when needed. At my retirement I cashed in my days and currently have a nice nest egg!
First time commenter here. I working at a global company with an enormous presence in the US. My company has both union and non-union workers. I have 13 years of service and get 20 days PTO, 10 paid holidays, 5 sick days and 3 floating holidays,,,,so 38 total days for me.
Hi not sure where you got the stat's for Australia from but we get 20 days a year recreation leave (25 if you work shift work) plus 10 days paid sick leave. Once you have worked for the one company for 10 years you also get 12 weeks 'Long Service Leave'. Then depending on your working agreement it either starts the 10 year clock ticking again on the next ten years or you get 9 calendar days LSL added each year. We also get 13 public holidays a year including one for a horse race LOL there is a reason that whenever you go on holidays you are bound to meet an Aussie or two.
The horse race holiday is only for victoria, not the rest of australia.
Aussie here. Each year I get 4 weeks annual leave (with the option to purchase 2 more weeks each year) and 3 weeks personal leave (sick or carers leave). The annual and personal leave continues to accumulate each year.
There 10 public holidays annually, and after 10 years service I get a lump sum of 13 weeks long service leave that can also be taken at half pay for double the time. It continues to accumulate each year so after another 10 years you get another 13 weeks. Or it can be used pro-rata. I also only work a 9 day fortnight, so get two 3-day weekends a month.
USA TN here. If you work in food service, or retail (ie. Walmart) and you’re part time, you’re lucky if you even get sick days much less pto. If you work in banking or government, you get most national holidays paid. If you’re in office settings and full time (36+ hours per week) then you usually get 2 weeks of pto and sometimes that will include sick days.
In Australia for every 12 months you work (provided you’re a full-time employee) you get 4 weeks paid time off. You can get more than this but many employers don’t like you taking more paid time off than this and they request you take leave if you have in excess of 4 weeks. Also if you’ve been with a company for 10 years you are entitled to long service leave which is 3 months paid time off.
Israel has a really interesting paid holiday law. There are 9-11 paid Jewish holidays (depending on if you're in Jerusalem or not). If you are not Jewish, however, you may choose to take either the Jewish holidays off or your own religion's holidays.
I don't know where you got your info about the UK from but it's wrong. From the official government site. 'Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave. An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.'
In the United States a lot of times you do not work a year before you have vacation. And typically there are only 6 holidays sometimes a company will give you 1 floating holiday to suit anyone arguing about a religious holiday. Starting out in corporate jobs will usually offer one week paid vacation a year until working there 5 years. I now want to move🤔🧐
I am from Colorado and work for a company that provides 13 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday, gives half day Fridays during the summer, and since I have been there over 10 year now, I earn 2+days of vacation accrued per month. We earn separate sick time from vacation time. Also, after we work 7 years we get a month long sabbatical in addition to our normal vacation time. This can be taken every seven years. I realize that my company is highly unusual for paid time off here in America. It is one of the things that keeps me going with this company as the pay is more on the lower end of the spectrum compared to other companies for a similar role (I work for a non-profit).
Have a look at New Zealand. There are 12 standard Holidays plus 4 weeks of annual leave but a lot of staff have 5 weeks AL. we do pretty well.
Yes I live in Luxembourg how cool is that :)
Thank you for the videos that you do -- these informational ones, and your many funny & poignant short skits. Worker rights!
In Brazil, we have 30 vacation days and 9 national holidays. You have the option to sell all of your vacation days back to the company. If you choose to do so, you won't have any time off during the year. However, if you don't sell any of your vacation days, then taking 30 days off is mandatory.
As a federation, there are also variations in laws between states, along with state-specific holidays unique to each federated state.
South Carolina in US = 1 week vacation =1st -3year / 3-5=2 weeks / over 5=3weeks paid vacation (PTO has changed - my hubby has 40, but he's been there 7 years). Then there's bereavement, maternity, adoption, etc.
As a US Federal employee, we accrue annual leave and sick leave separately, which I think is a lot more generous than a lot of private sector companies. A lot of private sector employers have one bucket of PTO that includes sick time. For Federal, we start at 4 hours of annual leave per pay period, in the door, and there are 26ish pay periods per year (the last pay period has a couple more hours accumulated) (about 14 days). At 3 years of service it goes to 6 hours (about 20 days per year) and at 15 years of service, it maxes out at 8 hours per pay period (about 28 days per year). We can have a max carry over of 240 hours per year, meaning you can potentially not use some of your accumulated hours in a year and carry them over to the next year. Sick leave is accrued at 4 hours per pay period, and we can accumulate as much of that as we want. When we retire, we can be paid out for unused annual, and unused sick leave goes toward calculation of our retirement start date. There are 11 paid Federal holidays, and in the US, if it is a Federal holiday (banks are closed), typically the corporate private sector follows. So for a Federal employee, low end, 25 days + sick leave, high end 39 days + sick days. Is it enough? No. Is it better than most others in the US? Yes. For a first world country, we have some very antiquated policies including time off and especially health care.
Accrue sick days? What does that even mean?
It's about as weird to me as "earning your home time" in the trucking industry. That's when a trucker has to have been driving across the USA for multiple weeks before he can take 2 days of leave at his own damn house. It's a shitty way of handling that.
@@marcbloemen2082it means you accumulate 4 hours every two weeks. You accumulate as many hours you don't use during your time with the federal government. For each industry there are different rules that may apply. Truck drivers fall under the Department of Transportation and the rules vary depending on the type of license and vehicle drive. Is not ok by any means. Politics and the industries lobbyists at Congress have the majority of the fault on the mediocre rules we have in the US. But we continue to vote for the same things... 17:44
@@marcbloemen2082 It means if you don't use the time you're allowed each pay period, you keep it in a bank of sorts and accumulate it. I have 900 hours of sick time accrued right now. If I were to suffer something catastrophic, I have enough sick leave to get me through several months with pay. Once you run out of accrued sick time though, that's it, you're not getting paid.
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Does that mean if I get in an accident after two weeks of working, you get like 2 days paid and that's all?? That doesn't seem right.
@@marcbloemen2082 Yep, in the U.S., that benefit is earned in advance. No sick time earned yet, no pay.
In Spain we also have some paid leaves when we marry (15), or move houses (1), or when we lose someone close (1-2). There's also a paid maternity or paternity leave if 16-20 weeks.
I'm pretty happy with my PTO over here in Belgium. We have 10 paid public holidays, 20 paid vacations days (which increase with seniority after 5 years with the same company) and what we call recoup time - standard working hours is 38 hours per week, but a lot of companies will work 39 hours, which gives you an extra 6 days per year. I currently work a 40-hour week so I'm entitled to 12 extra days, so total 42 paid days off a year. We also have entitlement to 4 months of parental leave per child on top of paternal or maternity leave to take before the child is 12, but can also be taken as a reduction in work time, so you can choose to do 80% and take 1 day a week off. The only issue I've seen is if you have taken a career break for whatever reason, you will need to earn your vacation time, so no paid days for the first year. New graduates are gifted 5 days which I've heard a fair few people complain about...
Hi Laura, I used to work in Luxembourg and I had 26 days off (private sector) + public holidays. I absolutely used the two days off for moving!
I’m in the UK & my work has 30 days annual leave + bank holidays. Then we can also buy/sell up to 5 days per year. We also have additional leave types too such as jury duty, bereavement, moving leave. Also 6 months maternity & it was 2 weeks paternity but I believe this has recently been increased too. I love our annual leave benefits!
Hello from Malaysia 🇲🇾, I hope you can do other videos like this to cover all other countries in the world 😊😊. Great information!!
This is super interesting!!! Thanks for the video and if you can, please make a part 2 🎉
I am a nurse in the US. I have spent almost 12 years working in either Texas or California during my career. On average, my employers have offered 14 days of PTO, and only some had a separate bank for sick days. Other general benefits include 6 weeks for new child/adoption of child, 2-3 days for death of immediate family member, and about 8-10 paid holidays (depending on the company).
I'm in the US, and my firm is very generous with PTO. I've been my firm a long time, and I get 5 weeks vacation, 14 sick days, and about 10 paid holidays. It varies drastically from company to company.
I am very fortunate. I get 25 days of PTO per year in the US working for an American company. There are an additional 12 days of holiday pay including the major holidays plus the ~week between Christmas and New Years.
As a long-time contract worker (technical writer) on mostly federal contracts in the U.S., I've always seen 10 days (80 hours) of "combined" leave. That means vacation and sick time. Then there _were_ 12 federal holidays, but a couple of years ago, June 19 was added, so now there are 13.
Federal government employees start at these numbers, and then their leave increases as their tenure does, but I don't know the scale.
Total days off: 23
Here in the United States, you are correct in that vacation/PTO days are not guaranteed. However, most companies offer a PTO package to office and manufactuing workers. Typical to start in that environment is 2 weeks (usually have to wait 6 months to a year before you can use it, although some companies appear to allow you to start using it right away). The typical max is around 5 or 6 weeks (25 - 30 days) with over 20 or 30 years with a company. If you work in retail, it can be a turkey shoot in terms of your PTO. Depending on the company, your position, your status (part-time or full-time), and years of service. Some get none, others are generous. In my company (manufactuing), we start with 2 weeks in the first year and work our way up every five years to 5 weeks after 15 years. At 20 years we don't get anymore vacation, but the company gives us 4 personal days to use at our discretion. We also get 10 paid holidays (one of which is a floater). In addition, we get up to 2 weeks of sick leave to be used if we are ill or for doctor appointments or caring for an ill loved one (parent, child, etc.). Then the more uncommon, like Bereavment (death in the family) and Jury Duty.
That is another thing here in the U.S. There are 10 federal holidays, but most companies do not necessarily follow the federal holiday schedule. Typical holidays everywhere are New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Chirstmas. Companies tend to give Good Friday, Day after Thanksgiving, and Chirstmas Eve as holidays, but these are not federal holidays.
Seems like some companies here are moving to an unlimited PTO policy where there are no limits, but the leave is at the discretion of your manager or company management. Personally, unlimited PTO may sound good, but there is the potential for a lot of abuse with a policy like this. If things get really busy, a manager can deny your PTO request and you could end up with none during a year and not get compensated for unused time.
Basically not guarantee here in the US by law, but most companies offer some sort of PTO package with vacation, personal time, sick time, and holidays. The amount can vary depending on the industry, the region, and even the position held in the company.
Austria here: per year it is a minimum 25 days PTO + max. 13 paid public holidays (depending if the weekday they fall on is a regular workday for you) + between 1-3 days for each of the following incidents: child birth (fathers), death of family member, moving, certain government citations (depending on your collective wage agreement and individual company’s employment contract). Additionally up to a week PTO for caring for a family member living in the same household. Furthermore you can use amassed overtime to take days off. My contract does not allow me to to amass overtime (as it is included in my salary) but I can take up to three more days of PTO / year. PTO and overtime hours can (up to a certain number) be transferred to the next year (and are added to the new minimum PTO days). Maternity leave = maternity protection leave (8 weeks before and after date of birth) + min. 2 months and max. 23 months (depending on a variety of things). Payment is, depending on the length of the maternity leave a certain percentage of your last wage/salary.
A New Zealander here- who moved to New York 17 years ago, I started with a Fortune 100 corporate company where I was only given 10 days, $9.40 per hour (with good benefits) 3 days sick, 3 bereavement. After 17 years I was getting 23 days vacation, 4 days sick, and 5 days bereavement. Meanwhile my family and friends in NZ spoke to the 4 weeks they get after working one year for a private company. I left the company due to 22 reasons and now looking for better benefits… going back to NZ sounds better with every USA comment I read.
As she said, those figures are the minimum, it's quite common here in Spain that companies grant more days than the 22 she mentioned.
In my case, I have 25 days plus my birthday. On top of that, there's the 14 paid holidays and the paid legal absences for various reasons
Hi!
From Sweden. We have as a legal minimum requirement 25 PTO days/year and the ability to take 3 consecutive weeks during the summer period, (as long as your emplyment period is more than 3 months) though one can save up 5 PTO per year and then have extra in the following 5 years. You also get additional ones based on age, though how much is dependent on your collective agreement.
When it comes to holidays and stuff - if you have a monthly salary those days are paid days off. If you got hourly it depends on your collective agreement/employment.
Hungary: As far as I know, when we start working, the base PTO days are 20. It's increasing with age, number of children, and other stuff, and it has a maximum of 40 days. Plus the holidays (approx 10-12 each year), plus paternity leave (10days) - maternity leave 2+1 YEARS, plus sick days (when your child is sick, it counts too, 50%salary, usually), you can get some extra days with child under 3 (total 44 days alltogether but 10% salary), you can get extra days off for death in family too. It's quite complicated, but we have sooo many extra days off.
Arizona here - my company is privately owned by a small business owner, new employees that are office/project manager/superintendent/project engineer/ceo/cfo/controller (hourly/salaried positions) get 10 days of PTO/9 paid holidays. If you've been with the company for 10 years your PTO is 15 days, and if you've been with the company since the startup and are apart of the executive team you get 20 days of PTO. There's only 3 people who have 20 days of PTO and that's the owner, the VP, & the Chairman 😆😭. Still we are very grateful to have jobs and still around, it's a small concrete/underground utility company that's been around since 2007. If they can survive not only an economy crash and covid we can conquer anything coming at us.
Noone in Germany has only tze minimum PTO, since companies want to keep union membership low they offer union condition contracts to non-union workers, so the tariffs apply, meaning 30 days/six weeks PTO. Plus public holidays, plus "unlimited" sick days (requiring a doctor's notice ofc), plus occasional days for moving/mourning/marrying.
Albania has 28 days of annual leave. You can request the paid days, generaly (depends on the company), after 6 months. We have also 13 national holiday, aside from the paid leave days
I'm in the US and have been with my company for over 20 years.
We have an earned PTO banking policy - you earn hours every pay period with a bank max of 240 hours. (Once your bank is full, you stop earning until you take time off.) When you've been with the company for 15 years, you hit the max earning at 6 weeks/year. This is on top of the 14 paid company/public holidays (including our birthday). They also pay us our regular salary if we have to take time off for jury duty. (We do have to turn over our jury duty check to the company.) Funeral pay is between 1 and 3 days (depending on the relationship to the deceased).
All in all it's a decent company to work at.
I’ve worked for a few companies in the States that give weird PTO balances, like 15 min of PTO every 8 hours you work. Essentially, it can take a year to get 5 days of PTO. And in all of the companies I have worked for, you have to be working at that company for at least 12 consecutive months to earn any kind of medical leave pay. Even then, you have to use all of your PTO before getting 2/3 pay.
I'm now working in France in the private sector. I have the legal 25 days off + 16 days of RTT + public holidays + 2 additional days because I'm over 30 years old and have been at the company for x years. So yeah...doing good...almost difficult to take it all. But if I had kids it would come in handy.
As others have said, in Australia 20 days (business days, so 4 weeks) annual leave, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, compassionate leave if needed. Then you also earn Long Service Leave, which varies industry to industry, but the average seems to be 10 weeks after 10 years work, accruing at two weeks per year after that.
Now some 'Muricans might complain that 'someone has to pay for that', which is true, or call it 'Communizm!1!!', which isn't true, but compare standard of living indicators between our nations, and see who is benefiting the most here.
I am in US have PTO of 30 days but includes my sick times but I get all usually recognized Federal
Holidays in the United States. When I worked other jobs you had to recruit payed off and usually based per pay period and by the end of the first year you recruited one week of vacation. But the company and I work for it’s very generous with their PTO. I got to use it first started within a couple months. I took a week off for vacation. I have only been with my company now for 6 months .
We have the minimum of 20 paid days, some companies offer 25 and more. Also the 2 days for the death of a close relative. Plus up to 25 days for students to study. But you should really check the maternity leave in Bulgaria ;) There is also a 6 to 12 days for applying for a university, and 3 to 6 for highschool. Also 30 paid days to get ready for your final university exam. There is also a thing called "Official and creative leave" which can be unlimited, but paid as well as unpaid (up to the company) though both are considered work exparience. 6 additional paid days for 50% disabled workers.
Poland - we get 20 days of PTO with 0 experience, 26 days of PTO with 10 years of experience. BUT the education counts towards this experience, so if you have your high school diploma you get 26 days after 6 years and if you have at least Bachelors degree - you have to work for only 2 years to enjoy your 26 days of PTO. And that experience is cumulative per your work history, not on the same employer.
Plus we have 13 days of national holidays. If it happens to be on a Saturday - your employer has to give you another day off. If the holiday is on a Sunday - tough luck.
You can also get 2 days whenever you donate blood.
Maternity leave is a whole different quota.
U.S. worker here. Began paid work in 1992 at the age of 12 delivering newspapers. Paid by the paper and no hourly wage, paid time off, or benefits. If working part-time (
This is interesting to know each country and what arrangements there is, I currently have 8 payroll weeks off spread across the year.
Each payroll week is 7 days so that means a total of 56 days off a year in total (combined non working days)
I do not work on Sunday or Monday so when I do take time off, this adds to my days.
The actual holiday allowance is 40 days off a year if you count my usual working week Tuesday to Saturday
Hello from Portugal.
My company gives 25 work days of vacation leave with full pay. Most companies have 22 work days
30 day per year for family assistance if needed.. Paid in full
If I'm sick, I've all the days the doctor says I need. Also paid
150 or 180 days of maternity paid leave for the mother. The father has also 60 days of paternity leave. I think is 60.
Reduced hours until the baby is one year old. Also paid in full.
Every religious holiday is a day to rest.
11 work days as a present if you get married
Thank you. This was fun!
In Spain you also have days like in Luxembourg, for moving, marrying, maternal and paternal leave, sick days, close relatives in the hospital, grieve time, etc...
Hey, Aussie here. 20 days paid annual leave plus paid public holidays. Employers can increase that and some industries have 30days. Teachers are paid over the school holidays. My company has 20days holiday which you can accrue and they have to pay you out if you leave or are fired. We also have 20days personal leave which can be sick/carers type leave and you just need a doctors certificate after 2 days and this accrues too. We also have long service leave which accrues at 3 months extra leave for every 10years service
Uruguay has 20 legal days off. Plus 19 public holidays. We also have legal time off for 🩸 donation, PAP for women and other tests for men. Also legal leave for deaths in the family or “jury duty”. Also have study days, up to 12 a year for test days.
In Colombia the legal minimum are 15 business days of paid vacation (that’s three weeks off) plus up to 18 public holidays. Some companies give additional vacation days or an additional vacation bonus.
Additionally companies must give an additional day off each semester called “family day”; where I’ve worked it usually was Wednesday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday and Holy Friday are holidays) and December 31st.
There are other leaves in case of a family emergency, death of a close relative or marriage, where I’ve worked it was up to 5 days a year.
There is no limit to sick days, with a doctor’s concept.
Minimum maternity leave is 4 months and minimum paternity leave is 2 weeks. I believe it is also applicable in case of adoption and stillbirths but I’m not sure.
I recently heard that there is a proposal to create a special leave for the death of a pet.
US worker here. I have a great employer and after 12 years I'm up to 24.5 days/year. It goes up every few years, maxing out at 30 days/year around 20 years of service. We also get the 11 federal holidays off. We can cash out up to 5 days, and roll 5 days to the next year. It's use or lose for the rest of the time, so our manager starts to bug us to schedule our PTO around mid-year so that we don't lose any days. We also have a separate pool of sick days up to 8, but they start to scrutinize things if you use all of your sick days. They don't want people use sick days instead of PTO when they're not sick.
I've seen some Americans commenting about 'Sick days'. That's not a thing here in Austria. If you're sick and have a doctors note then that's it, you're sick and not expected (not allowed legally) to go into work. Our company are also incredibly supportive of people with long term sickness and the social/medical system doesn't bankrupt anybody.
Where I am minimum is 20 days plus 13 paid holidays in Victoria Australia. Part time employees also get 4 weeks paid pro rata. If you regularly work Sunday or public holidays you get an additional week. Where I worked I got 25 days plus the 13 paid holidays. We also got 3 months after 10 years and pro rata for the following years plus 15 days sick leave. Note 2 of the public holidays are for a football grand final played on the following day and for a horse race run at 3pm on the day.
Fun video! Moving Canada to nz was a win on annual leave. 4 weeks minimum here, 12 public holidays, very generous sick leave. Culture is strongly encouraging of work-life balance and using your leave - if you use it, you get an extra week next year with my employer.
What is this “only get the holiday if it doesn’t fall in a weekend” business. That’s unfortunate!
Norway
A minimum of 25 days paid PTO
Most have 30 days
And for those that are 60+ years, you get another week of.
Paid holidays: 5-10 (some paid days change each year depending on which weekday if falls on)
Sickdays: 12 days per year, max 3 days in a row
For longer: 100% paid sickleave with doctors note for up to 12 months
Sick children: 1-2 children 10 days per parent/20 for single parents with 100% parental rights, additional 5 more days for each child there after/10 for single.
Normal: pto/leave with pay to care for elders, doctors visit, dentistvisits, follow children to the doctor etc normal up to 10 days per year.
All the above 100% paid.
And not to forget 100% paid parental leave for 49 weeks :)
And no, the taxes are not extreme ;) with free healthcare with the taxes. An avarage income is taxed 15-20% depending on their personal finances :)
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7 days Annual Leave mandatory. +1 day for every year worked up to 7 more days(total 14 days). Some companies may offer more but extremely rare.
The 14 days are mandatory to offer as long as the employee meets the duration of service, however, how it is offered may vary.
11 paid PHs(used to have 6 more, but removed cos it "reduces our competitiveness")
Election days are also PHs.
Off In Lieu applies for work on a PH, Typical PH payrate is 1.5x of a regular day's pay. It's either 1 or the other, not both.
Work hours: up to 44 a week, max 12 hours a day, max 72h overtime.
Work hours are 8.5 to 9 a day excluding unpaid 1h break(the break minimum is 45 minutes, but typically is an hour) up to the weekly max of 44h(hours are adjusted to avoid paying overtime)
Total paid leave: 18-25 days
Total sick leave: 14(doctor's MCs)-60(hospitalisation)
The 60 days are inclusive of days with MCs, not separate
If for whatever reason you max out the sick leave limits, you either take AL, or if you take unpaid leave if your total leave is maxed out.
Sweden; 25-30 paid vacation days. We also get paid public holidays. No restriction on sick days.
A lot of Indian business have 6 days work week. I am lucky to have 5 days work week.