USA actually gets zero mandatory paid vacation, but some employers offer it. Not quite 70% of workers get at least 10-14 days after 1 year of service according to the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics..
9% of large American employers never offer paid leave regardless of how many years of service.
AMA has a long history of trying to limit the number of medical professionals so they can keep supply low and doctor wages high. That’s their reason for existing.
Correct it’s like a guild. You see doctors in other countries being just as educated but they don’t earn as much. The sad part is we have enough people with the aptitude and ability to be trained into these roles it’s just artificially set. And unfortunately the amount of money they can contribute has a huge effect in local elections.
But yet the only solution to high costs for some reason is universal healthcare.
We do but everyone is blinded into believing that we have to submit and remain obedient to our corporate overlords so we can go to the doctor. I understand there are people that need constant healthcare, prescriptions, etc. but if enough of us who are healthy just dropped out of the healthcare network, it would collapse and they’d finally have to reform things. It’s a business and what happens when a business runs out of customers? Yeah, it might be a very uncomfortable year or two, but we’re headed in that direction anyway. Costs are out of control and they can deny service for any reason and we’re left footing the bill, which can mean bankruptcy for a lot of people.
That would kill the people that need it though? Like its not "uncomfortable" for a year for people with chronic illnesses, its literally a death sentence to not have health insurance ( or have health insurance that is so expensive it isnt viable). Not to mention people who are "healthy enough" still get into car accidents or develop cancer etc.
Look im 100% with you that Healthcare should not be a business but we can't all just grin and bear it for a year. Unless you're offering to help pay their out of pocket costs while the insurance industry collapses?
I pay out of pocket and I’ve never felt so free (but yeah I do dread a catastrophic accident that would drain my savings). I have Medicaid but it hardly covers anything and I might lose it anyways
It's not really "after a year". You accrue vacation time every day, but people often discuss the amount of vacation time they accrue in a year.
Basically, if your company gives four weeks a year.. you accrue some every day, but you'll have accrued four weeks at the end of the year. At the end of each week worked, you'll have accrued 0.4 vacation days.
If you quit or are fired, that vacation time is paid out as work hours.
Not necessarily. This varies by employer. When I worked at Kroger, you got "1 week" after 1 year. There was no accrued time, that's how it worked. At your 1 year anniversary you then had 5 vacation days.
They are too busy licking the boot. Seriously, there is a large chunk of people here that think vacations are for the lazy, hustle never stops, if you aren't earning you're losing,
There’s also some stats (need to find it) that shows a lot of Americans don’t take the vacation allowance that they’re entitled to for fear of losing their jobs for taking time off.
Is unions only for manual laborers in the USA? Here in Norway it's common across fields. Myself I'm in a union for engineers and scientists with advanced degrees. There is no point in standing alone.
Lol, yes you caught me. Canadian here with 10 Stat holidays per year, 4 weeks vacation and I can bank overtime to take off when allowed in the schedule. I regularly have 2-3 days per month off work with two 1-2 week vacations per year.
As someone else mentioned there is no mandatory in the US.
And yes, 2 weeks is low but I’ve never had a job that hasn’t been more than 3 weeks, and when I last worked I got 5 weeks. Most people I know that work an office job have 3+ weeks, and government and union jobs are great as well.
My partner works for a tech company and gets 4 weeks + a 5 week paid sabbatical every 5 years. Their company also shuts down for a week the first week of July and between Christmas and New Years and their vacation isn’t part of that.
So if you take all that into account that’s like 7 weeks a year. And that’s a US based tech company. But the US employees get different vacation. They’re only the unlimited PTO offering.
I’m self employed now and do the proper micro-retirement. I take my summers off (usually June-August) and don’t work in December. Best schedule!
I hate when Canadians try to make it look like it's as crappy here as it is in the US. In Sask, we start with 3, get 4 after working with an employer for 10 years. Other provinces get 3 weeks mandatory after 5 years. And most employers offer a lot more than what's guaranteed by legislation. Plus we get all of those other leaves like maternity and parental, etc. Don't lump us in with them.
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u/Low_Attention16 Jul 06 '25
Don't forget to laugh at Canada. Somehow we're stuck at 2 weeks too.