In 2011, actual weekly hours worked by male full-time employees in their main jobs continued to exceed those of their female counterparts in all Member States. Across the EU27, men worked on average 2.1 hours more than women. The gap is wider in the EU15 than in the NMS. In the EU15, men work 2.3 hours more per week than do women; by contrast, in the NMS, men work around 1.6 hours more than women.
The number of public holidays (excluding those falling on Sundays) varied in 2011 from a minimum of six in Romania and the Netherlands up to 14 days in Spain. The average number of public holidays in the EU27 was 8.9, with the NMS having on average fewer days (8.6 days) than the EU15 (9.2 days).
The combined total of agreed annual leave and public holidays varied in the EU from 40 days in Germany to 27 days in Hungary and Romania – a difference of around 48% or 2.5 working weeks. Other notably high-leave countries in 2011 included Italy and Denmark (with 39 leave days in total), while other notably low-leave countries included Estonia with 28 days, Poland with 29 days, and Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia with 30 days. The average figure for the EU27 was 34.2 days – 35.9 days in the EU15 and 29.4 days in the NMS.

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