Paid Vacations Forced by Federal Government?
Florida Dem Alan Grayson has introduced a bill into Congress proposing that companies with more than 100 employees should be required to give paid vacations of approximately 7 days to all employees. Grayson finds it outrageous that Americans work longer and harder than Europeans, and believes federally mandated vacations would help the average American worker relax as well as stimulate the economy because it would become a source of income for companies working in the holiday industry.
It is unclear why companies with 99 employees or less are exempt, and may instead fuel a rapid increase in companies with just under 100 employees. Moreover, Grayson’s own constituency of Florida, a vacation hotspot, may stand to gain most from such a bill should it pass. For all others, such a bill may instead end up becoming a cost, partly passed onto consumers by the companies themselves.