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In U.S. companies, workers are given a certain amount of vacation leave each year. The usual amount of leave for one year for an employee in an American company is about two weeks. This is far less time than the amount of leave that workers in many European and Asian companies get (around four weeks or more). In most companies, the longer you stay with the company or the more important your job, the more vacation leave you have. So, while the typical worker may have two weeks, their manager may have four weeks a year.

Different companies have different leave policies or rules. Many companies will allow workers to earn their time for vacation leave. For example, if a worker works one month, he or she can earn eight hours of leave. This sort of leave can accumulate for a certain amount of time, so that a person may have small vacations in one year or a large vacation after a longer period of work. However, there is usually a limit on how much vacation you can accumulate.

Most companies have maternity leave for a woman to have a baby and to take care of it for the first few weeks. Some companies also now have "paternity leave" for fathers so they can stay home for a short time when a new baby is born. However, most companies do not have paternity leave.