Americans want vacation law
Guaranteed paid vacations? Americans want it.
A new poll by the Opinion Research Foundation found that more than two-thirds of Americans support a law that would guarantee paid vacations for American workers.
The poll found 69% of Americans saying they would support a paid vacation law, with the largest percentage of respondents favoring a law guaranteeing three weeks vacation or more.
The poll was commissioned by Take Back Your Time, which advocates a three-week paid vacation law.
Other findings:
- Overall, only 27% of those polled were opposed to a paid vacation law.
- A majority said they needed three weeks vacation to prevent “burnout.â€
- Almost one-third of Americans said they took no vacation time at all last year.
- Another 26% took a week or less, and two-thirds of all workers took less than two weeks off.
- The median time off for all workers was about five days, far below the three weeks that most cited as the optimum to prevent burnout.
“American work-life is out of balance and this poll shows people know it,” said Cecile Andrews, chair of the Take Back Your Time board. She added:
“The only difference between dinosaurs and American vacations is that dinosaurs are already extinct. We are losing the breaks we need to stay healthy, avoid stress and bond with our families. It’s certainly a shame that neither Presidential candidate has addressed this issue. Maybe this poll will get them to take notice.”
â€Take Back Your Time†recently launched a new Web site— www.right2vacation.org — promoting the idea of a paid vacation law.
â€Mixing hard science and a lighthearted touch to make a very serious case, the site includes the latest research on the impacts of too little vacation time, as well as more than three dozen humorous and powerful posters that can be downloaded, printed and posted to call attention to the campaign and ways to get involved,†say promoters.
Report by David Wilkening
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