REPORT: AMERICA IS THE 'NO VACATION NATION'

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REUTERS - As Europe's workers take a few weeks of holiday this summer,
their American colleagues will be lucky to get a few days off work, says
a report published by the European Trade Union Institute. Finland,
followed by France, offers working people the most statutory vacation,
at more than six weeks per year, the report, an international snapshot
of how much paid leave people get by law and in practice in 21
countries, says. The United States is the only country where employees
have no statutory leave, and they get about half as much time off in
reality as Europeans get, according to the report, compiled by the
Washington-based Centre for Economic Policy Research. "The United States
is in a class of its own," the report says. "It is the no-vacation
nation."

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSL0522341220070705

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