WORLD Legislative Repository for Paid Health and Annual Leave Laws 2026

The WORLD Legislative Repository for Paid Health and Annual Leave Laws 2026 contains the legislation used to code the Equal Futures Annual Leave and Weekly Rest Laws 2026, Equal Futures Paid Leave for Family Health Needs Laws 2026, and Paid Leave for Personal Health Needs Laws 2026 datasets. The creation of this public use legislative repository was a collaboration between the WORLD Policy Analysis Center and Equal Futures with WORLD sourcing the full-text legislation used to code the database and Equal Futures curating the legislation for public use. Unless otherwise indicated, all legislation is to the best of our knowledge current as of January 2026. Equal Futures’ mission is to build evidence that advances equality and quality of life worldwide. As part of this mission, Equal Futures is pleased to be the new home for the WORLD Policy Analysis Center's public use data on constitutional rights, laws, and policies. Equal Futures will continue to maintain and update these datasets, alongside constructing data for new policy areas, building on WORLD's history of providing rigorous, actionable data that advances equal opportunities across all 193 UN member states. The mission of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) is to strengthen equal rights and opportunities globally by providing civil society, policymakers, citizens, and other researchers with tools to advance feasible and effective policy approaches for improving the well-being of individuals, families, communities, and societies. WORLD captures quantitatively comparative data for 193 United Nations (UN) countries on adult labor and working conditions, discrimination at work, child marriage, aging, education, constitutional rights, health, disability, family, migration, child labor, environment, and income policies. WORLD works with partners to promote evidence-based decision-making across these areas.