TIL: Only four countries in the world have no government mandated minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays: Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States of America.

The US are 50 3rd world countries stacked in a trench coat, pretending to be the world's greatest country.

Yeah but you guys have your own kind of mustard, and tomato sauce, and the epstein ballroom, and those ridiculous big cars. It's surely the greatest country in the world.

If it's any consolation, there's also no law that mandates that we get breaks either!

Like, at all. No lunch. No 15 minutes. Now, most companies DO "offer" breaks. But they don't have to. Except in a couple states (Less than 10, last I checked.)

Combine that with "at-will" employment without contracts, that means in most of the USA you could be asked to work for 36 hours straight with no breaks and be fired for looking tired.

That's fucked up. Here in the UK, I work a low level job and my wages aren't great, but I get 4 weeks paid leave and am encouraged to take it. I also get up to 6 months paid sick leave, though I need a note from my doctor after a week. I think after 6 months I still get paid half wage. The sick leave thing isn't government mandated, but it's not uncommon, and I'm strongly encouraged to use it if I'm not well. Makes sense, you don't want sick employees bringing germs into work and making everyone else ill.

I don't have kids, but I'm pretty sure paid maternity /paternity leave is pretty decent too.

The US is a trash heap that worships an orange pedo, what do you expect?

Not to apologize for shitty US labor regulations, but in some places these rules aren't enforced rigorously if at all, so this data shouldn't be taken at face value. For example I doubt Saudi or Qatari slaves are getting days off.

That's what you get when your government and representatives are all owned by corporates, and works exclusively for the benefit of those corporates. Lobbying works only for corporates, and not the people, and should be illegal. People should stop voting for those who fail to deliver in their FIRST term. No second terms for failures!
But American people are undereducated, low information, partisan and a very high proportion vote in a racist way, where rather than vote for their own best interests, they vote for their neighbors worst interests. Thus, they get what they deserve, but unfortunately the worst of us, the divisive politicians profit.

We need to remove money from politics, make lobbying illegal and subject to capital punishment, and politicians found to be selling out our trust, liable to capital punishment also. They are worse than traitors in a war, so the punishment MUST be severe. Politicians should also be personally liable when they fail to keep their election promises, and LYING to the public needs to be punished harshly too. ALL politicians should be audited before, during and after their terms. Finally, there need to be term and age limits. Rich 80-90 year olds, are NOT representative of the people, and do NOT have the same concerns as the rest of us.

'Wow, really? Cause you never think of those other three as having their shit together'

America is just non stop winning!

The USA is the richest third world country on the planet.

That's because America is fucked...

Back in British Colonial rule they sent their criminals to Australia. The ones they couldn't catch escaped to the USA. /s

Except the US, those are tiny island countries too.

Not even slightly surprised to see the US on that list... America hates it's workers.

But they're so free! Haven't you heard how free they are?! FREE!

There's a bit of nuance in the article:

There is no federal or state statutory minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays. Paid leave is at the discretion of the employers to their employees.[202][203] According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 77% of private employers offer paid vacation to their employees; full-time employees earn on average 10 vacation days after one year of service.[204] Similarly, 77% of private employers give their employees paid time off during public holidays, on average 8 holidays per year.[204][205] Some employers offer no vacation at all.[206] The average number of paid vacation days offered by private employers is 10 days after 1 year of service, 14 days after 5 years, 17 days after 10 years, and 20 days after 20 years.[204][207] A number of states and non-states in the United States have instituted some form of paid leave with 10 states (California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts) along with the District of Columbia having mandatory paid family leave while 4 other states have a system but it is not yet active (Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota and Maine). Voluntary leave is in 8 states (Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, New Hampshire and Vermont).

Greatest Country in the World! /s

The sad part is, that it could be.

How can this be? According to MAGA (and also Bernie Sanders BTW) the USA is the greatest country in the world.

/s obvsly

I'm sure that's actually enforced in all those countries too.

Everyone is missing the point here. These are state laws. Kit federal laws. Including breaks.

Micronesia and a country operated by a micropenis. Yes I'm just being rude but out of frustration at the situation and the lives it is costing.

Americans are fine with it.

If not, they’d do something about it.