Workers in the U.K. and Poland have the most generous statutory employee holiday entitlements while employees in the U.S., Canada, Philippines, China and Thailand have the least generous entitlements, according to an overview of employee regulation and employment practices released by Mercer.
Statutory holiday entitlement is the amount of time off work that an employer must provide its employees by law. Workers in the U.S. have no statutory holiday entitlements while employees in the U.K. have 28 days. U.S. federal law does not mandate pay for time not worked and holiday policies vary widely.
