R.I. Congressman Seth Magaziner wants to guarantee workers paid vacation days

This morning, US Representative Seth Magaziner will hold a news conference in Washington, D.C., to introduce a bill to guarantee all full-time hourly workers at least two weeks of paid vacation per year.

”I’ve introduced a few bills since I got here, but this is the first signature piece of legislation I’ve introduced,” said Magaziner, a Rhode Island Democrat first elected in November, 2022. “If we can pass this, it would help 27 million workers that currently don’t have access to any vacation time at work.”

The European Union guarantees workers at least 20 paid vacation days per year, and some countries require as many as 30 annual days off, he said. But the United States doesn’t guarantee any paid vacation for workers, and one out of every five private sector workers in the United States — nearly 27 million people — do not get paid vacations, he said. [...] Read full article.