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holiday entitlement means legislated time off for workers
written into government law by statute. This amount of time
varies by country and some countries do not have a law defining
a minimum time off to which workers are entitled each year. This
doesn’t mean that most employers in a country without statutory
holiday entitlement wouldn’t offer paid time off, but it could
mean that the exact amount from each employer can’t be expected,
and employees have little protection under state or federal law
that they’ll get a certain amount of vacation time. Some of the
most generous statutory holiday entitlement laws exist in
Europe. Ireland, the UK, Russia, and Lithuania have laws
guaranteeing full-time employees 28 minimum days off per year,
not including national or bank holidays, which can bring the
total up to over 5 weeks of paid time off. Finland, Brazil (in
South America), and France exceed this, offering 30 minimum days
off plus national holidays.