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I am all for it, though I worry that employers will start treating 10 days as both a minimum and a maximum (for regular employees). I expect that the most American workers gets 10 days or less, so this law is going to be good for them and the CEOs who get 52 weeks off per year are going to keep getting that, but there are high-skilled workers who take 3-4 weeks off per year. Their employer is going to standardize on 2 weeks of per year for everyone from the janitor up to the vice president. If the employee tries looking for a job, many companies will have already switched to the 10 day standard and the rest will either follow suit, calling it "matching industry norms", or they will use the extra vacation days as golden handcuffs.
I hope not, but I am a pessimist.
Anyone getting four weeks is in a position to find an employer that will keep them there. You don't get that much time if they aren't competing for workers.