>>plus 10 statutory holidays
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>>10? Well, I guess if you could "National Auto-spanning Day" <s>
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>Let's see what days we can agree on for the US. Assumption here is that we're talking about office workers, not retail.
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>I think all would say: New Year's, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. That's six.
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>Other possibilities: MLK Day, Presidents Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve (1/2 day?), New Years Eve (1/2 day?). I don't think it would be hard to come up with a set of 4 days from that list. Were I an employee, I'd actually prefer to have some floating holidays, so I could take the High Holy Days without using vacation.
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AFAIK floating holidays are now the norm.