What part of Europe crashing and burning in front of their eyes do they not get??? 
Now men are requesting maternity leave to spend 6 weeks with their new born to Bond with them.
Strange world, preconditions are usually not covered in insurance and pregnancy when starting work is a preconceived condition.
The company now needs to grant a 6 week of leave of absence to the males that become fathers married or not, hold their job for them and hope the heck the man does not knock up 3 woman a year. The males insurance will not cover the mother but will cover the children.
Interesting dilemma for the honeymoon baby's. If the baby weighs 6 pounds it is considered full term even if born 6 weeks early. No insurance for the mother, a baby born weighing 5 pounds is considered premature and if the parents were married only 7 months then the mother is covered.
We have 128 hours a week free working a 40 hour work week. 512 hours a month and 6,144 hours a year. At 40 hours we work 1920 hours a year. Paid holidays and and vacations for a week or so add in to the free time.
So to figure if you do not get a weeks vacation just work the 40 hours a week, you net one heck of allot of time to spend as you wish.
Please some one check my math. 40 hours of work out of a 7/ 24 hour day X 365 days a year. How much time is free outside work ???
I am a klutz at math but I believe that without adding in over time and vacation paid time working for even minimun wage I have more free time to get a part time job or kick back and do nothing, more time for family then those in any other country has with their paid vacations.
So after 15-20 years one gets 5 weeks vacation and 6 personal days, add it up with the 6 weeks leave of absence for personal problems, we work less then the rest of the world.
So the hamburger's flippers make a small wage, they can work another job and still have more free time then the professionals that work 18 hours a day to bank roll and live high off the Hog.
So who is content and happy here, the little man with a roof over their head or the Big time people paranoid that they will loose their useless huge homes that make them no happier then the little guy that lives in a paid for 6 room home.
Must be fun to own and worry about paying for a huge Yacht, the Club fees, the docking expenses, the up keep and the price of gas to take them out and about. It is fun to see these huge ships with helicopter landing strips and the crew in nifty uniforms running about the decks that the owner will visit perhaps twice a year.
We the poor buy the $4-500 dollar kayaks and spend our free time with cameras and at peace just moving slowly about getting out of the insanity of today's life. Yes we do go into harbors and check out the boats that are moored or at dock with a million dollar boat with crew.
Who has the fun, the owner of the boat that charges past life as they make their money deals from inside quarters and live a life of no true reason.
The little guys in the kayaks that use no fuel, no technology but what they know about the wind and the tide.
Not so far off topic, even the poorest of us can experience more then the wealthy.
