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I'm quite sure the five weeks he mentioned don't include official holidays. In the Netherlands it's also five weeks on top of a number of official holidays, and we gave the lowest number of those in the EU (7 iirc, some of which may be weekend Sat's in some years, like Christmas now).

Of course good companies typically don't offer only the minimum.

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In France you get 5-8 weeks of vacation that are counted in addition to the official days off.

In general you work 272 days a year and the rest is vacation and days off (this is also the reason we get a different amount of days off every year).

I have about 40 working days off, of which the company can choose the dates of 10.

272 days is very high. Full time work in the US with 0 vacation (typically is 10-20 days) and 0 company holidays (typically is 5-15 days) is 250 days. Perhaps you mistyped?

Don't they have a 4 day work week in France?

No we don't. We have a concept of "35 hours of work per week" but it gest complicated once your time is not metered per the hour.

People whose work is counted in days get special "extra vacation days to catch up" (this is more or less the real name), around 15 per year I think.

Some places are starting to introduce it, but it's very rare. However the standard work day is 7 hours.

Oh yes, sorry - I meant 227 (too late to edit)

It's 218 working days in some union contracts (convention collective) usually, and 216 in Alsace.

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