Even though a majority of American workers do have some kind of paid time off, nearly half of them report not using all of their vacation time.
The European Union Working Time Directive, which was passed in the early 1990s, requires at least 20 working days of paid vacation in all EU countries.
While roughly 80% of U.S. workers have some kind of paid time off, nearly half of workers report not using all of their vacation time.“You have entire cultures like France ... where pretty much everybody takes August off, and it's just part of the culture there,” said Shawn Fremstad, director of law and political economy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "You don't really see that here in the United States.
“When I came to France, I noticed that vacation is a way of life,” said Fatima Cadet-Diaby, an American who has been living in Paris for nearly seven years. “People are constantly talking about their vacations.”“I think people have a stereotype of France in their mind as this kind of lazy culture,” Fremstad said. “But if you look at the
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