Mandated Vacation

[erpowers]

It is being reported today that the Center For Economic Policy and Research has released a study that states that the United States is still the only developed nation that does not have federally mandated paid vacation. According to the study Japan has the second lowest number of mandatory paid vacation days with 10. In Austria, a new worker gets 22 days paid vacation, which goes up to 49 days if the worker stays with the company for six years.

How would mandatory paid vacation days work in America? Would the current system of first come first serve, were if you request a particular day, but someone else already requested that day you have to pick another, be kept?

http://www.ibtimes.com/no-vacation-nation-will-americans-ever-get-federally-mandated-time-1279921#
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/united-states-lags-europe-on-paid-vacation-time/2013/05/27/5cc98964-c4b1-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html

[hedgehog]

1. It would be a huge leap forward if contract workers got any vacationor paid holidays at all!

[Floyd_Gondolli]

2. Unfortunately it will never happen

We're actually heading in the opposite direction. Hard to see that ever changing given the current culture of greed among the "job creators".

[hfojvt]

3. well, we've got that for Congress

but they exempted the rest of the country from it.

[loli phabay]

4. not sure how it would work probuably the system of if its feasible. i personally hate taking vacati

And end up banking it and donating it, if i want a day off i use comp but i just dont want to do weeks off.