{ "name": "HeadcountDesk Statutory Leave And Working Time", "title": "Statutory Leave And Working Time", "url": "https://headcountdesk.com/datasets/statutory-leave-and-working-time/", "csv": "https://headcountdesk.com/datasets/statutory-leave-and-working-time.csv", "markdown": "https://headcountdesk.com/datasets/statutory-leave-and-working-time/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-05", "license": "https://headcountdesk.com/terms", "headline": "The Statutory Leave And Working Time carries 5 published figures read from 10 sources' own pages, from 4 to 26 week, read 26 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Statutory Leave And Working Time carries 5 published figures read from 10 sources' own pages, from 4 to 26 week, read 26 September 2026.", "10 of the 40 named sources read in full publish a figure; 30 publish none, read 26 September 2026.", "Statutory Leave And Working Time, entitlement unpaid carer's leave: median 2 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.", "Statutory Leave And Working 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"7a6d6d2959e4abcdc4f428f6d53bff5946154d9caf367a398a62ec4992be2964" }, { "source": "Mass.gov employment law", "url": "https://www.mass.gov/info-details/paid-family-and-medical-leave-pfml-benefits-guide", "figure": "26 weeks", "value": 26, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": { "entitlement": "paid family and medical leave" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "quote": "If you are eligible, you can take up to 26 weeks of combined family and medical leave per benefit year.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "3797c1940e7d4457218532a2b9a877db008b2d55c2314f1f5609add70d8b1d14" }, { "source": "US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division", "url": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime", "figure": "40 hours", "value": 40, "unit": "hour", "vat": null, "axis": { "entitlement": "weekly overtime threshold" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "quote": "The FLSA requires that most employees in the United States be paid at least the federal minimum wage for all hours 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"California DIR/DLSE", "url": "https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_vacation.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Employment New Zealand", "url": "https://www.employment.govt.nz/pay-and-hours/pay-and-wages/minimum-wage/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-19", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "GOV.UK employment guidance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "GOV.UK employment guidance", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK employment guidance", "url": 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"https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/payroll/payroll-deductions-contributions/canada-pension-plan-cpp/cpp-contribution-rates-maximums-exemptions.html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "IRS, worker classification", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "IRS, worker classification", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc759", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Mass.gov employment law", "url": "https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-vacation-leave", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Michigan LEO, wage and hour", "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/ber/wage-and-hour", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in 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publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification", "label": "US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/leave/paid-sick-leave/", "label": "Washington L&I", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/contents", "label": "legislation.gov.uk, the Acts and Regulations", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/contents", "label": "legislation.gov.uk, the Acts and Regulations", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights", "label": "gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 10 of the 40 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 30 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 4 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in week (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 172 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the statutory minimum leave, holiday-pay formula, accrual rule, payout-on-leaving rule, overtime threshold, rest-break rule and notice period per jurisdiction, read from the authority that sets it, put in ONE table so a multi-jurisdiction employer can see where its policy is below the floor; and, for the calculator queries, the exact arithmetic each authority prescribes rather than a rule of thumb", "embed": "

4 to 26 week

5 published figures, Statutory Leave And Working Time, across 10 sources, read 26 September 2026

Source: HeadcountDesk Statutory Leave And Working Time
" }