Countries with the Most Vacation Days
| March 21, 2018
11. France
France has long had a legendary reputation because of their generous vacation policy. Five weeks of paid vacation is standard among most workplaces. In addition to this standard paid vacation time, employees are also entitled to put any overtime that they work towards accruing more vacation days.
The standard work week in France is 35 hours long, and any hours worked on top of that (up to 22 days per year) go towards more vacation time. The result of this program is that many employees find themselves with almost 10 weeks of paid vacation per year. That doesn’t include the 11 paid public holidays that employees are also entitled to take off.
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