[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Where do you work now? Two weeks after 5 years on the job sounds too much in the Crack the Whip category, but yeah, it is kind of a standard. We could use more vacation, it would be better for the economy. We get less than China or Japan? Sickening.

[ALS]

I work for a #1 company and we happen to have an office in Italy where they automatically get 2 months! They make them take one whole month off and the rest they break up as they choose. We get 2 weeks automatically, but have to wait a year, as is normal, to take it off. It's a 5 year stint to get 3 weeks.
Oddly enough, they just issued a memo whining about the high cost of vacation time. This from the 2nd largest privately owned company in the U.S.
I'm not much for gummint mandated vacation time. Once this pandora's box is opened, it will grow to the point that the cost will inhibit new hire and they'll just work the existing employees harder and longer.
However, I think it a bit ridiculous we have to have a guilt trip laid at our feet, when employees in Italy get 2 months a year and they don't have to wait a year to use it!

[Prodigal Son]

Where do you work now?

I work for myself now.

Two weeks after 5 years on the job sounds too much in the Crack the Whip category,

Well, the way I looked on it, no man has a right to a job in the first place. If I were living like a caveman- survival would be a 365 day a year occupation. I don't think anybody has a right to a vacation. A job is for survival. If you can find a job where they offer to pay you a week or more every year for doing nothing- this is a plus. But like this communist in the article wants to do with mandatory three weeks- that'll lead you down the road to totalitarianism.

If I own a company, I am the only entity that has the right to set wages and vacation time- the gov't needs to stay out of it.

We get less than China or Japan? Sickening.

Personally, I find the amount of mandated vacation in Europe sickening. They wonder why their economies are floundering. No such thing as a free ride. If you're on a paid vacation, somebody is paying for it.