Holiday Allowance At Work

[Beach Hut]

OK being discussed so unless self- employed how many days excluding bank holidays are you allowed each year ?

 

[clapham_gull]

25 days which I'm only entitled to because I've worked at the company for over ten years.

My girlfriend got that when she started her current job.

Having said that, my hours are "lax" to say the least. I also get 10 days paid sick, so technically I could get away with 35 days.

 

[Yorkie]

25 days plus 2.5 privilege days (for working for the Crown) If I was there for any length of time it would rise to 28+ with long service.

 

[Beach Hut]

30 days, 5 days friends and family (rarely used although this is stretched by others to say the least) and sickness knows no bounds (with many).

 

[Ernest]

Every day is a holiday for me

 

[Cian]

21 + Good Friday + the statutory bank holidays + any working days between christmas and new year minus one but thats done from home.

The 21 rises to 24, then 26, then 28 then 30 after 2, 3, 4 and 5 years service respectively. Whether I can stick the place for 5 years is another question entirely...

Sick days are effectively unlimited, ten without doctors cert but with one I don't think they've ever questioned anyone; and assuming you're not pulling a Stephen Ireland, compassionate leave is fairly lengthy too.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

25 days, except I do three and a half 12-hour days a week, meaning I actually get 18 days. But then I'm not automatically allowed ANY bank holidays (even Christmas) so I get a further 9 days to compensate.

 

[Fixtures]

One month plus three weeks study leave.

 

[Gully]

I get 30 days with my current employer, can carry up to 15 days forward into the following year, hardest thing is being able to use it all up.

 

[blue'n'white]

30 days plus the bank holidays
1 day off for the Queens birthday
1/2 day privilege at Easter
10 days sick before they start getting awkward

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Ooops, misread post. Am self-employed so ignore one of the votes for "my employer is a bastard and gives me nought"!

 

[Scoffers]

20 days plus Bank Holiday's, which is now the European Union legal minimum, I believe

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The average annual leave entitlement in the UK is, apparently, 25 days plus 8 public holidays.

In the USA it is 17 days plus 10 public holidays.

Best deal is Germany, with 29 days, plus 12 public holidays.

Both the UK and Germany have a statutory minimum of 20 days. The USA is the only major industrialised country with no statutory entitlement to paid leave.

 

[Horsham Gull]

by public holidays do you mean lieu days?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

by public holidays do you mean lieu days?

I mean New Years Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day Bank Holiday, Spring Bank Holiday, August Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day (or adjacent days taken as holiday when these occur on a Saturday or Sunday).

Or days taken in lieu of those days (without eating into annual leave entitlement) in those employment sectors where bank holiday working is required.


An interesting snippet I discovered when digging out some facts about paid holidays in different countries was the fact that, in the 'old' EU, it is only in France and the UK where pay and conditions are settled by individual companies. In most other 'old' EU countries, pay and conditions are fixed at 'sector' level (ie all engineering employers negotiate a collective deal that applies to all companies in that sector).

In most of the 'new' countries of the EU (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Poland), the UK and French 'company level' approach applies. Slovakia, Slovenia and Cyprus follow the usual 'old' EU pattern of sector settlements.

 

[Mr C]

The average annual leave entitlement in the UK is, apparently, 25 days plus 8 public holidays.

In the USA it is 17 days plus 10 public holidays.

Best deal is Germany, with 29 days, plus 12 public holidays.

Both the UK and Germany have a statutory minimum of 20 days. The USA is the only major industrialised country with no statutory entitlement to paid leave.

Yep, it's not uncommon over here to start a full-time job with zero days holiday for the first year.

No, I ain't joking

 

[dougdeep]

Just 20 and 5 of those have to be taken at Christmas.

 

[El Presidente]

35 days +we close for a week at Xmas + 20 days for 'contemplation'.

No complaints from moi

 

[Screaming J]

I can't vote in this thread as there's no 30+ days category - always end up carrying days over though.

 

[British Bulldog]

For some strange reason the railway have decided that workers who do office hours deserve 2 more days holiday a year than shift workers! It does'nt go down too well.