List of minimum annual leave by country

In most industrialised nations, advances in employee relations have seen the introduction of statutory minimum tariffs for employee leave from work, i.e. the amount of entitlement to paid holiday/vacation. Several companies will offer contractually more time, depending on the sector. Companies and the law may also differ as to whether national holidays are counted as part of the minimum leave. Disparities in national minimums are still subject of debate regarding Work-life balance and perceived differences between nations. These numbers usually refer to full time employment, part time workers may get a reduced numbers of days.

Country	Legally required minimum leave
Argentina	14 calendar days (from 0 to 5 years seniority), 21 calendar days (from 5 to 10), 28 calendar days (from 10 to 20) and 35 calendar days (from 20)
Australia	4 weeks standard, plus 10 public holidays. 5 weeks for shift-workers (those regularly rostered across a 7 day week). 2 weeks can be "sold" to employer (cashed-out). Additional Long service leave is also payable after 10 years' service at the same employer (on average, 1 week leave for every 60 weeks worked - or approximately 8.5 weeks' additional leave for 10 years' service), although some states mandate that LSL is payable pro-rata on termination of employment after 7 years' service.
Austria	5 weeks
The Bahamas	14 days after 1 year employment, 21 day after 5 years employment
Belgium	20 days, premium pay, plus 12 public holidays
Brazil	22 working days ( 1 month vacation, counting the weekends too), with 33% extra pay, after 1 year employment, of which 10 can be sold back to the employer. In addition, holidays are also paid.
Bulgaria	20 working days and up to 12 days national and public holidays
Canada	Determined by provincial law. Minimum 10 working days depending on province and tenure of employment. In addition, 5–10 public holidays depending on province.
Chile	15 working days
China	5 working days (from 1 to 9 years seniority), 10 working days (from 10 to 19), 15 working days (from 20 years onwards).
Colombia	15 working days for every year, vacations can be accumulated for up to 4 years (up to 60 working days of vacations). Plus 18 Public Holidays
Costa Rica	2 weeks after 1 year employment.
Croatia	20 working days (Saturdays can be included even if company offices are not open on Saturdays; this is left for employers and employees to agree) and 13 public holidays.
Cyprus	20 working days of leave for workers on a five-day week and 24 working days of leave for workers on a six-day week over a period of one year's employment.
Czech Republic	4 weeks
Denmark	25 work days, plus 9 public holidays
Dominican Republic	14 work days after one year employment, 20 work days after 5 years employment.
Estonia	28 calendar days (public holidays not included), unless employer and employee agree over a longer vacation; up to 56 calendar days for selected education and science professionals (determined by government decree).
Ecuador	14 days
Finland	5 weeks (30 days with Saturdays, but not Sundays counted as holidays) is the minimum mandated by law. More precisely: vacation is accrued between April to March each year and used primarily during the following summer holiday period. During each such full period 2.5 vacation days are accrued per month. When taking up a new job, only 2 days are accrued until the start of the first full period. Many trade unions have been able to agree for more vacation time for their profession
France	5 weeks +up to 22 days of RTT (Réduction du Temps de Travail, in English : Reduction of Working Time) for the employees that choose to work more than 35 hours per week - the "limit" is 39 per week, further additional hours are compensated in almost all the cases by money and not by aditional leave hours. Bonus days off are given to people who take a part of their annual leave outside summer (3 days grant 1 bonus day off, 6 days grant 2 bonus days off). Combining all these rules, in a few public offices and in a few companies like Orange, the resulting total, for certain employees, might be of 9.5 paid vacation weeks (5 weeks of vacation + 4 weeks of RTT + 0.5 week of bonus days off). Furthermore, there are about 10 national holidays (that, though, in many companies are not paid days off, with the exception of the 1st of May, for which a remuneration is compulsory).
Germany	4 working weeks (24 workdays for a 6-day-workweek; 20 work days for the standard 5-day-workweek), plus 9 to 13 bank holidays. Civil employees receive a minimum of 30 days after a law against age discrimination was passed in 2012.
Greece	20 working days or more depending on the years in the company
Guatemala	2 working weeks
Hong Kong	7 days(1 to 2 years), Add one day per year until 14 days (3+ years)
Hungary	20 working days (increasing up to 30 with age)
Iceland	24 days, not including 13 official holidays.
Ireland	4 working weeks (20 days if working full-time), plus 9 public holidays
Iran	4 weeks
India	1 work day for every 20 days worked (around 12 work days a year)
Indonesia	12 days, it varies from 1 company to another but normally it's 12 work days per year.
Israel	14 working days for the first 4 years. 16 days from the 5th year. 18 days from the 6th year, and 21 days from the 7th year. from the 8th year an additional day is added per year up to 28 days. not including official holidays, sick leave, etc.
Italy	At least 20 working days (exact amount depends on contract details, a few contracts guarantee up to 25 days), entirely paid, plus up to 104 hours of ROL, that means reduction of working time (in Italian Riduzione Orario di Lavoro), that have to be used primarily in blocks of a few hours each time for family/personal needs (for example bringing a kid to the doctor, going to the bank etc.) but may be utilized as well, just for the unused part of them and just if the company/the collective contract allows that, to get additional vacation hours/days, or to shorten of 1 or 2 hours the working day on Fridays. Furthermore, there are 12–13 paid public holidays.
Japan	From 10 working days for the first year to 20 days for the 6th year.
Jersey	2 weeks
Kazakhstan	24 calendar days
Korea, South	15 days
Latvia	4 weeks
Lithuania	28 calendar days.
Luxembourg	At least 25 working days; 10 public holidays.
Malaysia	Starts at 8 days for first 2 years employment with an employer. Increases to 12 days for between 2 and 5 years employment and 16 days for 5 or more years. Plus, depending on which state, around 14 public holidays.
Maldives	30 days
Malta	24 working days (192 hours)
Mexico	Starts at minimum 6 days for the 1 year of employment. Increases to 8 days after the second year, to 10 days after the third year, 12 days after the fourth year, and to 14 days from year 5 to year 9; then every 5 years increases two days.
Mongolia	15 working days for the 1 year of employment. Increase up to 29 working days after 32 years of employment. 48 working days paid vacation for teachers and professors for all levels of school, kindergarten and university regardless of the number of years of service.
Namibia	21 consecutive days, or 1.75 days for every 1 month worked, plus 14 days paid public Holidays. Some companies do increase leave amounts, depending on how long the employee has worked at the company.
Netherlands	4 weeks plus 9 paid public holidays (not compensated if they fall during the weekend).
New Zealand	4 weeks as of April 1, 2007, plus 11–12 paid public holidays, depending on which day they fall. Employees can cash up to 1 week of annual holidays per year
Norway	21 working days (lots of companies as well as public sector gives 25) plus 5–12 Public holidays in Norway (some of which always fall on a Sunday)
Pakistan	15 working days
Paraguay	14 days
Panama	30 consecutive days plus 10 paid public holidays.
Peru	30 calendar days, which includes weekend days. Effectively, 20 to 22 working days.
Philippines	5 days, rendered at least 1 year of service is entitled to a yearly service incentive leave.
Poland	20 working days per year during the first 10 years of employment and 26 working days thereafter. Plus 13 days of public holidays.
Portugal	22 working days, up to 25 without work absences in previous year.
Puerto Rico	15 days
Romania	21 working days
Russia	28 calendar days (52 in extreme north regions) {for militaries 30/45 days except for drafted}, plus 12 public holidays (they neither count nor pay) There is the 10-nonbankdays streak in January (6 of them are holidays).
Serbia	20 working days minimum (effectively 4 weeks, law defines working week as 5 working days for purpose of paid vacation), plus 9 bank holidays and up to two more days depending on religion of employee.
Saudi Arabia	21 working day and 30 day after 5 years of employment.
Singapore	For regular employees, 7 days with 1 additional day per year up to a maximum of 14 days. No statutory minimum leave for seamen, domestic workers, or employees in managerial or executive positions.
Slovakia	20 days, 25 days after reaching the age of 33 years.
Slovenia	20 working days of leave and 13 public holidays.
South Africa	21 consecutive days, or 1 day for every 17 days worked, or 1 hour for every 17 hours worked, not including 12 public holidays. Regular workers may take a further 3 days of family responsibility leave. Leave legislation does not apply to members of the National Defence Force, National Intelligence Agency, South African Secret Service or unpaid volunteers working for a charity.
Spain	22 work days, not including 14 public holidays.
Sri Lanka	28 working days: 14 maximum annual, 7 casual, and 7 sick leave.
Sweden	25 work days minimum, plus 13 public holidays (some of which fall on a Saturday or a Sunday) and three de facto holidays (two of which may fall on a Saturday or a Sunday). Additional leave, often called arbetstidsförkortning (English: shorthening of work time), typically 5-10 work days per year, is available for many Swedish employees.
Switzerland	At least 20 work days, plus 12–16 public holidays (some of which always fall on a Sunday). People working in the public sector usually benefit of an additional paid week off; a few companies offer the same benefit to their employees after some years of service.
Taiwan	0 days (from 0 to 1 year), 7 days (from 1 to 3 years), 10 days (3 to 5 years), 14 days (5 to 10 years), Add one day per year until 30 days (10+ years)
Tanzania	28 calendar days
Thailand	6 calendar days
Turkey	14 work days for 0–5 years, 20 work days for 5–15 years and 26 days for over 15 years seniority.
Tunisia	30 work days
Ukraine	24 calendar days
United Arab Emirates	24 calendar days (6 months - 1 year of employment); 30 calendar days (>1 year of employment). This is in addition to 10 paid public holidays.
United Kingdom	28 calendar days (5.6 weeks) These may include the Bank/Public holidays which otherwise would be unpaid.
United States	None.
Uruguay	20 working days (from 0 to 5 years seniority), 21 calendar days (from 5 to 8). Afterwards, an additional working day is added every four years.
Venezuela	15 paid days for the first year and 1 day extra for every year of service up to 30 days. In addition, a maximum of 12 public holidays provided every holiday falls on a weekday.
Vietnam	10 working days.

References

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