Why Americans are not taken to take leave

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The United States is the only developed country in the world where vacation is not a requirement of a labor agreement.

This leads to the fact that many foreigners consider the work ethic in the United States to be somewhat strange, writes with the BBC.

According to According to the European organization Economic Policy Research Center (CEPR), in most European countries, workers are required by law to have 20 or more days of vacation per year.

Australia and New Zealand also require employers to provide their employees with at least 20 holiday days per year; The French get 30 vacation days per year, and the Swedes get five weeks of vacation annually.

At the same time, in the United States, most Americans take only two weeks of vacation a year, although some do not even allow themselves to do so, for fear of losing their jobs.

According to the American Tourism Association, in 2016, 54% of working Americans completed the year with unused vacation days, the total of which was 662 million days.

According to the US Department of Labor Statistics Department, almost a third of all American workers do not receive paid sick leave, and more than 25% do not take any additional days off.

Some states have decided to correct the situation - in California and New York, employers are required to provide employees with paid sick leave.

At the same time, according to the report online employment resource Glassdoor66% of Americans said they continued to work while on holiday in the 2016 year.

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