Countries With The Most Vacations

By siliconindia  |   Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 01:18 IST
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Portugal



 Days off per year: 35



Annual hours worked: 1,711 hours



 Labor productivity: $32.40 per hour



 GDP per capita: $23,385



 Unemployment rate: 15.9 Pct



With a handy 13 public holidays every year, the Portuguese workers all together receive 22 vacation days each year. In case employers fail to give workers a day off on these holidays, the company needs to compensate with either another day off or pay double their normal wage.



However, regardless to this the Portuguese Govt cancelled four of these holidays starting from this year for the next five years as part of the nation's greater economic austerity movement. Due to this instance the nation's economy went down by 3.2 percent, worse than any other nation except Greece and Portugal's debt also shot up from 71.6 percent of GDP to 123 percent.
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