Australian here, 4 weeks is the legal minimum. At my work place it starts out at 4 weeks and goes up to 6 weeks after 4 years of full time employment.

ugh, america really needs to copy this

But only for full time jobs right, screw the tens of millions of people that work hourly and are managed to be legally part time.

(What I mean is, vacation time for full time white collar jobs probably isn't the first thing we need to address in our labor laws)

very reasonable

why.. If you want 4 weeks find a company that offers it. Many of them do. My company does and I would prefer they just pay me.

it's more i wish we had a culture of encouraging people to take more time off, where it was normal/expected. (actually, i think the ideal way to work for me might be something like "insane hours for 3 months, no work for 3 months". or maybe every two weeks. or something.)

i just think there's a strong expectation/cultural momentum to be working all the time, more than is healthy. you can swim against it, but you're still swimming against it.

Have you asked them if they can just pay it out? It might mess with their budgeting slightly, but they'd be paying the same per hour worked so likely not be a big deal.

UK is 28 days paid leave (includes public holidays).

...although, under the current government many employers have moved workers to be contractors on "zero hours contracts", so you're uber driver, food delivery guy, amazon packing guy etc have basically none of these rights.

On the other hand, if you are software dev you are either employed and have the 28 days - or you are a contractor, less rights but paid more than the permies.

Some IT contractors line up something before their current one ends, or there will be a gap while you find something.

5 weeks is the legal minimum in France.

Does that count national holidays as well? I get three weeks of paid vacation, but I also 10 national holidays (two for Thanksgiving, two for Christmas, 4th of July, etc..).

It doesn't in Australia. You get 4 weeks vacation time + ~10 public holidays a year + sick leave if needed.

It doesn't count in France neither.

It’s 28 days in the UK. Those weeks include the weekends!

They include bank holidays (various fridays off), but the rest of it is just time you would've worked anyway, not time you would've had off.

Righ - I mean it’s 4 full weeks of 7 days, so 28 in total, rather than 4 working weeks of 5 apiece, totalling 20.

4 weeks of annual leave is the minimum here in Australia.

Not including the 10 days of sick leave as well.

4 weeks. plus 11 public holidays. plus sick leave.

In Spain the minimum is 30 natural days or 22 work days.

Plus 14 national holidays