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Often we read employers "give" vacation time to their employees. The historic reality (most often hidden in the US and elsewhere) is one of violent struggles, strikes and rebellions from the workers to gain those "benefits". Here this article in memory of the Bay View tragedy in May 1886.
As for the enactment of a mandatory paid vacation in France in 1936, it directly followed a general strike. Same in Belgium. I don't think the US faced such general strikes...
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