The argument: Should Massachusetts require employers to provide paid vacation time?
Massachusetts should meet the basic global labor market standards established more than half a century ago by requiring employers to provide paid vacation days.
The International Labour Organization — the United Nations agency that helps set and monitor baseline international agreements to foster economic stability between workers and employers and to promote parity across borders — has had a broad-based minimum paid vacation compact since 1970.
That standard, which has never been adopted by the United States, requires all workers (except seafarers) be guaranteed paid vacation days each year equivalent to three working weeks, as well