Take Back Your Time: Vacation Law
TBYT (timeday.org), a nonprofit, launches a national campaign for mandating 3 week minimum vacation for all American workers. The US is the only industrial nation that fails to legally protect its citizens’
vacations. Last year, 25 percent of American workers got no paid vacation at all, while 43% didn’t even take a solid week off.
“Three week vacations have proven to be a boost to productivity and profits at enlightened American firms with that policy. Performance goes up when people come back from a vacation,” said Joe Robinson, author of Work to Live. “In the knowledge economy, the source of true productivity is a refreshed and energized mind.”
“What we’re asking for is quite modest when you consider that residents of most industrial countries get five or six weeks off and that the absolute minimum in Europe is twenty days of paid vacation after the first year on the job,” said Take Back Your Time’s Executive Director Lisa Stuebing.
Contact:
Lisa Stuebing
Seattle, WA
Take Back Your Time, Executive Director
206-524-6788
lisa@timeday.org