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Brazil.
30 days + a lot of holidays.
At least 2 years for sickness if I'm not mistaken.

UK, 25 days annual leave which is the standard minimum plus bank holidays

Germany 30 days

USA, CA, civil service, IBEW. I'm between 5 and 15 years (different PTO for different service lengths).

15 days vacation, all federal plus 5 floating holidays, and 10 sick days.

It's 10 days vacation between 1 and 5 years, and 20 after 15.

Ontario, Canada.

Employees with less than five years of employment are entitled to two weeks of vacation time after each 12-month vacation entitlement year. Employees with five or more years of employment are entitled to three weeks of vacation time.

If you read the link you will find the employer is allowed to pay out your vacation time as a % of pay. This is very common especially in lower wage sectors. You are then supposed to save up the money yourself to pay yourself for vacation when you take time off. In effect, you don't get any paid vacation.

edit: I'll also add that you have no right to select WHEN you take your vacay. A friend of mine worked in a factory that shut down for 2 weeks in august for maintenance, painting, service the machines etc. So everyone had to take their vacation during that time; no choice. That is unusual but not prohibited.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/vacation

9 public holidays

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/public-holidays

Employees are entitled to up to 3 sick leave days per year once they have worked for an employer for at least 2 consecutive weeks.

This is new since COVID. Which at the time it was introduced, mandated 10 days away from work.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/sick-leave

There are also other kinds of leave like parental, bereavement and such, if you click any links you can see that in the sidebar. Nothing is very lush.

Everything is prorated to a 40 hour work week. Breaks don't count. So if you work 20 hours per week, you are entitled to half of what is specified.

Any employer can offer more than this, of course. Professionals and higher valued workers can get more. Unions or individuals can negotiate. But a lot of people only get the minimum. Or less. Enforcement is minimal. It's the honor system.

There are also exceptions like federal workers (government, airlines etc). And farm workers, who basically have zero rights of any sort.

US - 0

None at all, no sick, no holiday, no federal holiday, absolutely no PTO. If I don't go in I simply don't get paid.

Germany.

• 30 vacation days.
• 16 public holidays.
• Unlimited sick days (6 weeks paid by employer, the rest by the health insurance, at a lower rate)

These are all paid, ~~all working days~~ some public holidays may fall on the weekend.

I started this year with 9 vacation days from last year, I had to take them before the end of March, so I just randomly took a couple of weeks in Feb and Mar.

I usually align my vacation days with my kids school holidays, but I take 2-3 weeks continuously in the summer, usually late August.

Canada. Union. IT. Mixed Gov/corp contract.

100% WFH (anywhere, but within the country if you're on the gov stuff)

22 holiday-days a year. But given the 9x9 fortnight means an extra day off within the paycheque, timed around stats it means 7 weeks.

Generous supplemental medical and dental and vision plan, workday ends precisely at 4:39 and no one expects you to stay a millisecond after; but we stay to either finish or mothball a task so it's an easier pickup. Evenings and holidays are fucking sacred and you won't get contacted unless it's a break-glass all-hands event.

The job is too much fucking Ansible and not enough real work, but I joined because I know the staff and it's a really great and cohesive team. New openings only when someone retires, and with luck I could end up sailing the world on half pay for life like the guy whose seat I took over.

US, I just got to offer stage with a company and the PTO was 10 days... I'm originally from the UK, and previously worked with startups from other countries, so this is shocking to me. More infuriating was the response from my friend group when I complained about it. "Yeah that's pretty standard" and I'm like "ok but it's also shit?"

USA, no paid time off.

But I make enough to take off a few weeks a year anyway.

Spain:

12 national holidays.

29 vacation days.

4 sick days without a doctor signed medical leave. As many as I need with a medical leave.

USA. 4 weeks. Gotta love a good union!!!

US, unlimited vacation and PTO and the major holidays off. We’re encouraged to take off a minimum of 1wk per quarter. Definitely unique in the states. I work for an extremely large startup. Don’t know how long this vacation plan will last. lol.

Denmark: 30 paid days off per year, paid sick leave, some unknown amount of public holidays. Really enjoying this socialist-democratic hellhole.

Sweden. 30 days of PTO per year.

I usually do three weeks in summer, two over Christmas and save the rest for random extended weekends when the public holidays align.

Also, I have about 90 days of paid, and 45 barely paid days parental leave left to take out. There was a total of 480 days for me and the Mrs to share in-betweenst ourselves per kid. I took four months off. Plus another 10 daddy-days to use immediately after baby was born.

Australia: 20 days PTO by law, 13 public holidays (depends on the state, but no less than 10 which are national), 10 separate days for use when sick or caring for someone who is sick. There's more entitlements for different scenarios but this is pretty much the baseline.

Canada - Four weeks vacation. Five and a half years with the company.

US. 20 vacation days, 6 personal days, 7 paid holidays.

Longest vacation I've taken has been about 10 days not counting weekends.

Canada. 20 days PTO, 5 PEL, 11 holidays

UK, 25 days as standard (not including paid bank holidays) plus my employer has the option to buy/sell up to 5 days so I usually buy 5 extra. Also, if you have left over holiday days, you can carry over 5 to the next financial year.

Additionally, the standard legal of 9 months maternity leave.

Also, unlimited paid sick days providing you don't take the piss; longer than 3 days you should ask for a note from the GP. Longer than 2 weeks you should arrange a meeting to discuss the situation and what (if any) adjustments can be made.

I will also point out that mental conditions must be treated the same as physical conditions so if you need to take a mental health day then you can.

Also my job is very flexible about working arrangements.

The standard is hybrid working, 2 out of 5 days in the office. But depending on what your job is you could be fully WFH or full-time in the office.

If you feel you can only work part-time and your manager agrees then you can.

And the contracted hours are 37.5 per week and flexible start so you must be available between the core hours of 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 4pm, and as it's the UK Fridays you can finish at 12. Providing you've logged enough hours for the week, if you want to finish early you can or take a longer lunch break to run an errand.

Oh and the cherry on top is the company tries to match annual pay rises with inflation and give a very good reason if they can't fully match it. That's not very common in the UK and one of the main reasons, aside from the fact that it's a nice place to work, why I've stayed with them because I don't feel pressured to move jobs to stop my pay getting eroded by inflation.

US - unlimited

Switzerland, 35 days of vacation but that is just the company I work for, usually it is 20-25 days. Also an additional 7 days of national and communal holidays.

I usually go on short vacations, 3-7 days.

20 discretionary, 12 set public, unlimited negotiable, 10 sick days. New Zealand.

Finland - and zero days, since I’m self-employed. On the other hand, I can take a day (or even a week) off whenever I feel like it, and I only need to work about three days a week to cover my living expenses.

At my previous job, I used to get somewhere between 30 to 40 days of paid time off per year. It varied depending on the year and how many public holidays landed on weekdays.

Canada, technically unlimited but I generally take 5-6 weeks

USA, I usually take a day or two at a time, either when I'm sick or I have a doctor's appointment.
I get 40 hours of PTO per year and both sick and vacation come from the same pool, sick days count as "points" though and you get 3 points in a 6 month period, exceeding that is termination.
Unpaid time off isn't an option until you run out of PTO.

UK here. I get 30 days paid leave a year, and will have 2 or 3 weeks away on vacation throughout the year and use the rest of the days for just chilling.

My employer will literally hassle me to use all the days, and is not happy if I don't take my full entitlement.

No, I don't have PTO. Guess.

Switzerland - 20 days is the legal limit, but we get 30 with one week around Christmas + New Year's Eve being mandatory.

I also got a special perk where I work 90% but due to a limitation of our system where we enter PTO, every Friday I take off doesn't count against my PTO budget (rather than only every second Friday). I have not told anyone.

U.S. (California)

• unlimited vacation time (my boss very much lets me use it too)
• 40 “sick” hours a year
• “ bereavement leave “ (death in family)
• 12 holidays

I will admit I am lucky for being in the US. It most likely helps that I work for one of those evil Silicon Valley tech companies.

Midwest US at a large nonprofit with ~10% union workers, ~7 hours PTO accrued per 2 week pay period adds up to just over 184 hours or 23 days, and another 14 holidays. PTO accrued was tiny until 5 years seniority, currently at 13 years and I think it caps at 8@20.

I usually take off as much as I can, about a month per year spread out by 1-2 week stretches for a vacation or just to take care of personal work or projects, moves, family stuff, etc.

Czechia. I get 20 days off mandated from the state, plus some (12-ish?) public holidays, plus every day I donate blood (that's up to 5 days a year).

My job gives me 5 extra vacation days, and when I'm on sick leave, pays me the full 100 % of my salary.

I take vacations for as long as I need :) But mostly I try to chip away at my supply with one- or two-day vacations, usually around weekends and/or combined with public holidays. I am obligated to take vacation at the end of the year, and I always take 3-4 days for a yearly local metal festival.

USA, 2 weeks/year but they don't expire and I can roll them over if I want to.

I usually vacation for 3 weeks at a time, it's a good amount of time to spend on one place I've never been and see a bunch.

In the UK, for a university. 26 days + 8 days bank holidays. I've been offered the chance of 'buying' an extra 10 days (salary sacrifice, spread over the year), I might go for it.

USA
I currently have 80hrs of vacation and 40hrs of sick-time + a floating holiday
Also the major holidays
And a winter shutdown (~one and a half weeks)

USA, self employed so 0 hours PTO but also don't have to deal with an HR department to take time off.

France - never got some since i always was in internship/short/seasonal contracts. I have huge free time in unemployment periods though, and some are 'paid' by social aids, around 1 week each month if i worked the previous one. The legal basis is 30 days otherwise.

Ireland... 25 days PTO which is standard, minimum is 20 days. Plus public holidays, around 9 or so.

7 days sick leave at full pay, minimum is 5 days paid by gov at standard rate so not matched to your wages.

Usually take a week off on holiday, a few days in a row for school breaks, otherwise random days here and there for stuff.