In the great European tradition of a God-given right to at least one month paid vacation a year.

I had a German business partner for a while.  We were not doing well, money was tight.  He announced his vacation plan.  I suggested that if he was going to take all that time off, at least some of it should be unpaid given the circumstances.  He thought that I was proposing an injustice on the order of genocide.  A massive human rights violation, not getting his full complement of paid vacation.