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While not all places will give PTO or weekly paid holidays, the US still has federal holidays that cause most businesses to close. Even people in essential fields are still required to take the day off if they are salary.
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. Getting time and a half on a holiday counts as it being recognized as a holiday for essential jobs.
Also interesting reading the comments about how many other countries are wrong. I have a hunch this entire graphic is wrong.
Edit: leave it to Lemmy to down vote accurate information just to spread unnecessary hate for everyone's hate boner.
No amount of anecdotal bullshit will change the FACT THAT USA HAS FEDERAL HOLIDAYS and this graphic is WRONG.
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.
The 7 paid federal holidays are either paid time off, or time and a half depending on your job and employer.
There’s no requirement for paid time off at the federal level in the United States. Zero.
Some companies and public sector workers offer these benefits, but it’s not required according to current federal law.
Not really accurate to count all federal holidays, and a lot of businesses don't close even on the ones you can't count.
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 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.
My bad, I forgot EMS and other essential workers don't go to work in other countries during holidays. Thanks for informing me. No need to understand time and a half when 0.00% of people work.
It's very important to make sure we only apply a rule to one country and not the others for an info graphic. Double standards are great, aren't they. Resume your incorrect hate boner.
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.