>>So you think a new employee for any full time position should get 10 days of holiday, plus sick leave days, plus 4 weeks of annual vacation?
No, I think that if some successful nations manage to do it, it isn't logical to claim that generous labor laws are linked to stagnation. Clearly something else is going on.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1