I'll save you the suspense. The number is zero.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla/faq

However, it doesn’t separate for yourself and someone else, so technically a mother could be on bed rest for 3 months and exhaust all of her leave.

A small number of states do mandate paid family leave (specifically to care for someone else which includes new parents), but they also usually stipulate minimum number of employees at businesses.

It definitely doesn’t behoove a young person interested in becoming a parent at some point to work at a startup or small business unless they explicitly offer paid parental leave as a benefit.

Part of the reason my wife and I moved to the state we did was so that she can get an extra two months of leave with her newborn, and so our daughter would be growing up in state that offered them at least that much in the future.

It seems the general consensus there is regulation = evil and bad. Anyone who advocates such must be a communist.

Not at all suggest your comment is doing this.

That's also a hell of a 'so long as'. If you ban lumped PTO and don't establish a robust minimum, lots of people aren't going to get what they would prefer.

"An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave."

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

Because if so, they don't count in the US. So the US would be 17 days of vacation plus statutory holidays. At my job I get 25 days off, plus 13 statutory holidays, so 38 days a year off, paid.

And there is no legal requirement to pay anyone for any government holiday that they do not work either. Many times, the people that do work on government holidays also do not get paid any extra for working on a holiday.

Most professional jobs give 28+8 (or more, I had 30+8 which slowly increased to 33+8).

I believe they both define holidays, but it's for those directly employed, not workers in general.