Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reintroduced legislation that he said would end the “international embarrassment” of the US being one of the few countries in the world to not offer guaranteed paid vacation time for workers.

Sanders (I-Vt.)—who is co-sponsoring the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act along with Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)—said guaranteed vacation was essential for all American families.

“We hear a lot of talk about family values in America, but let’s be clear,” Sanders said. “When a husband, wife, and kids, during the course of an entire year, are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. That is an attack on everything that a family is supposed to stand for.”

“It’s not a radical idea to require companies in America to provide at least two weeks of paid vacation to their workers,” Sanders added. “What’s radical is that millions of Americans are not only working longer hours for lower wages, but that they do not receive a single paid vacation day. That should not be happening in the United States of America, the richest country in the history of the world.”

The legislation proposes giving every worker in the US the right to accrue at least one hour of paid annual leave for every 25 hours worked, with full-time workers earning at least two weeks of paid annual leave per year.

The bill would also prohibit employers from discriminating against workers who exercise their right to vacation.

Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI), who introduced a companion guaranteed paid vacation bill in the US House of Representatives, said the legislation was needed because “every worker in America deserves the chance to rest, recharge, and spend time with the people they love without worrying about missing a paycheck.”

The legislation comes one day after the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a report finding that “US workers get an average of 10 days per year of paid vacation time, far less than the legal minimum required in almost all comparable world economies.”

CEPR also found that nearly a quarter of US workers get no vacation time at all, including 57% of the lowest-paid 10% of the US workforce.

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