What you need to know about the paid annual leave system after immigrating to the United States

Government employees in the United States are divided into two categories: federal government and local government (state, county, city, etc. The federal government has unified regulations on paid vacation, and local governments are independent, but the treatment is similar to that of the federal government, so we will introduce paid vacation for federal government employees.

The paid leave of federal employees is divided into two parts, one is legal holiday leave and the other is paid leave. There are 10 federal holidays (national holidays) in 20 13 years. These 10 days are New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's birthday, Washington's birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Therefore, federal employees have 10 days paid vacation, which is the same for every federal employee. The length of paid leave depends on the working years, and the specific provisions are as follows:

1: Full-time employees who have worked for less than three years can get four hours paid vacation every two weeks, 52 weeks a year, *** 104 hours, that is, 13 days.

2. Full-time employees who have worked for more than three years 15 years can get six hours paid vacation every two weeks, which is *** 156 hours a year, that is, 19 and a half days.

3. Full-time employees who have worked for 15 years or more can get 8 hours paid vacation every two weeks, 208 hours a year, 26 days.

4. Half-time employees who have worked for less than three years can get 1 hour paid vacation every 20 hours; Those who have worked for more than three years but less than 15 years can get 1 hour paid vacation for every 13 hours; For those who have worked for 15 years or more, they can get 1 hour paid vacation for every1hour worked.

5: * * post, professional and technical personnel, etc. 8 hours paid vacation every two weeks, regardless of the length of working years.

According to the above regulations, a full-time federal employee has at least 23 days paid vacation (10 plus 13 days) and more than 36 days paid vacation (10 plus 26 days). Many federal employees will donate their holidays to those in need if they can't end their holidays.

Generally speaking, paid holidays in private enterprises are not as good as those in the government. According to a new research report entitled "No Vacation Countries" released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, only 77% of private enterprises had paid vacations in 2006. In these enterprises, full-time employees have an average annual paid vacation of 2 1 day (8 days plus 13 days), and part-time employees have an average annual vacation of 15 days (6 days plus 9 days). From the perspective of enterprise scale, the paid vacation days of small enterprises (employees 100 or less) are lower than those of medium and large enterprises (employees 100 or more), and the average paid vacation days of small enterprises are 19 days, while that of medium and large enterprises is 23 days. From the perspective of wage income, low-paid employees have fewer paid vacation days than high-paid employees. For example, employees earning less than $65,438+05 per hour have an average of 65,438+07 days of paid vacation, while employees earning more than $65,438+05 have an average of 23 days of paid vacation.

A medium-sized private enterprise in Washington state, DC, has the same paid vacation regulations as the federal government, *** 10 days; In addition, full-time employees who have worked for less than 3 years are entitled to 5 hours paid vacation every half month (salary period), with annual 120 hours and 15 days; More than 3 years, 6.7 hours every half month, annual 160.8 hours, 20. 1 day.