The FMLA has many restrictions. Employees must have worked at their company for more than 12 months. They also must have worked at least 1,250 hours during the previous year. Smaller employers are not required to provide FMLA leave to their employees. If a company employs fewer than 50 people within 75 miles of the employeeâs worksite, the employee does not qualify for FMLA leave.
Austria, which guarantees workers the most time off, has a legal minimum of 22 paid vacation days and 13 paid holidays each year. The average private sector U.S. worker receives 16 paid vacation days and holidays. One in four Americans does not have a single paid day off.
Colombia and Argentina were tied as the top countries with 18 holidays, more than double the number of holidays that Mexico gets and nearing double the ten days off the United States has.Other countries at the top of this list are Thailand and Malaysia with 16 each, and Slovakia and Cypress with 15 each.ut this new holiday also marks a record for Argentina, making it the country with the most national holidays in the world with a total of 19 days off.