The American Wage Slave

There's a study about sick leave and vacation for American workers that doesn't surprise me about the sick leave (too little, especially for low wage earners: 86% of food service workers don't get sickc pay, so they show up to work at that restaurant you like to go to, sneezing and coughing on the food they're preparing and serving you).

But the figures on vacation time did indeed surprise me.

According to the CEPR study (pdf), about a quarter of workers don't get any paid vacation or holidays. If you make less than $15 an hour, that number jumps to 31%. If you do get paid vacation, on average, you get 12 days of it a year. That's less than the statutory minimum in every advanced country save Japan and Canada...

Thirty-one percent of people making under $15 an hour don't get vacations or holidays?

Yeah, well, yer lucky you have a job. Git back to work and quitcher bitchin' 'cuz there's a line of people waitin' to do it if you don't want it.