The Annual Leave and Weekly Rest dataset was created by Equal Futures to assess progress on legislation affecting whether all workers have access to paid leave and weekly rest through a systematic review of legislation governing education across all 193 UN countries as of January 2026. The dataset covers the duration of paid annual leave, whether there are tenure requirements to access paid annual leave, the duration of weekly rest, and whether agricultural and domestic workers have access to paid annual leave and weekly rest.
Equal Futures is pleased to be the new home for the WORLD Policy Analysis Center's public use data on constitutional rights, laws, and policies. Equal Futures will continue to maintain and update these datasets, alongside constructing data for new policy areas, building on WORLD's history of providing rigorous, actionable data that advances equal opportunities across all 193 UN member states. Equal Futures is grateful to WORLD for building the original databases that laid the foundation for this data update and for sourcing the full-text legislation that Equal Futures used to code this database. WORLD’s public use legislative repository is also available for download through Harvard dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EWMFW4) which provides the legal documents that Equal Futures used to code each country.
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