How many days holiday a year do you get?
 

Interesting article on the BBC website today about the difference in paid holiday entitlement between the USA and the UK.

The average leave entitlement in the UK is 20 days, and in the US 9 days (but you have to accrue it); in fact, 1 in 4 workers in the USA do not get any paid holiday or paid vacation (not sure what the difference is).

A handy chart for some countries

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/09/74.gif

How many days paid holiday do you get a year? (don't forget to add on Bank Holidays if you get paid for them).

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Currently 0 (NIL) as I'm a temp.

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We're discussing how many you have by PM. and the average so far is 365 days :D

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Not enough :D

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Once again, you would be mistaken. ;)

I currently get 38 days annual leave, 3 additional days at Christmas, and 8 days public holiday - so in total, out of approx 260 working days per year, I get 49 days off. :D

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My American sister-in-law gets 14 days off paid. She can take more (I think upto month or more) but its unpaid. That's working at Wal-Mart, no less but in the oil & lub dept which may be different from the shop-floor staff.

I get 26 days + bank holidays. Although i'm on a contract at the moment so the paid annual leave part is pro-rataed

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28 days, no bank holidays or Christmas though

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I get the following

25 days A/L
10.5 bank holidays
Flexi leave (as and when i build it up)

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whats a holiday ? is it fun

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I'm getting 32 days a year but thats including the bank hols as we are normally working those days.

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Nil.

Being self employed is not all it is cracked up to be.

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I get 2 that I can take, the others (not sure how many) are incorporated into our 10 days off that we get every month, if we are ill on the 10 off we can claim 5 days holiday back.

We work 4 on, 4 off, 4 on, 4 off, 4 on, 10 off. Repeat till dead.

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:shocked: This makes me jealous.

I get 20 not including Bank Holidays.

I don't know how Americans cope with so few days off, they work longer hours as well don't they?

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As many as I want..

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29 plus bank holidays. Allowed 2 days flexi per month too so all in all I'm happy with my lot.

I was headhunted about 4 years ago and the hunter was prepared to through a few thousand extra a year my way and match the 34 hour week. However I'd lose 5 days a year plus flexitime.

I decides to stay put. I have 2 young kids and decided that the correct work/life balance required more time off, not less. :D

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Absolutely - one of the reasons I moved into my present employ - I was contracting for a couple of years, and as above posters have said, you don't work, you don't get paid, and before that had 25 days annual leave in the previous permy job.

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I get 28 days plus bank holidays,going up next year as i have been there over 10 years to 33 days plus bank holidays.

But i usually have bank holidays as days off in lieu not on the day as i work for the NHS.

Cannot complain though.:)

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25 days standard plus 4 days long service plus Bank Hols.
Never use them all and carry upto 5 days over to the next year!

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Zero as I'm a Carer for our own twins

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Zero.

Yes teachers get paid holidays but not when you are a supply teacher.So all my holidays are unpaid.

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Same with me.

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Yes, the article is interesting, but your chart is misleading as it shows paid leave entitlement guaranteed by law. So, my interpretation of the USA being at the bottom of the chart is that this is a "less government" society where employers are left to make their own contracts with employees, with minimal state interference. Being high up in the table is a bad thing, in my opinion.

To answer your question, I'm entitled to 27 days leave (take them when I like) plus nine statutory days (take them when I'm told), a total of 36 days, which if I'm honest if far too much. But if I don't take them, I lose them, which is why today I'm sitting at home, currently looking through the Forum. :)

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Problem with the lack of government intervention is that 28 million working Americans don't get any holiday leave at all though

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Quite. The chart says 20 holidays for The Netherlands. When I last worked there (10 years ago) I had about 40 paid holiday days per year plus bank holidays. I never managed to take them all.

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30 days plus 4 statutory (25+26 Dec, 1+2 Jan). not allowed to carry more than 4 to next year

I struggle to take them all... my wife forces me though

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25 days plus statutory holidays.
Plus with teh flexi benefits we get I choose to "buy" and additional 5 days :-)

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33 days (10 years NHS service) and then bank holidays on top - its about the only 'perk' i get on top of a decent sick pay scheme (which i don't make full use of - unlike some others!)

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25 plus 8 bank holidays. After 10 years service it goes up to 28 or 30.

Obviously as 24/7 coverage is needed in my line of work you don't always get the bank holidays and are compensated for them which seems to send the Daily Mail into the kind of rabid completely false headlines they normally reserve for stories about gay illegal immigrants on drugs and benefits.

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Hi
As a worker in NHS I get 33 A/L, 12 Flexi - extra half hour a day - let it build up, and 8 BH. = 53.

How long can it last ??????

Billc

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Nowhere near enough.:erm::D

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Apparently the UK entitlemant is now 28 days (but some of these may be used for Bank Holidays)

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employme...ys/DG_10029788


Personally I get 27 + bank holidays

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24 days + Bank Holidays + a Concessionary day after most Bank Holidays that occur on a Monday

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35 paid days - one of those is fixed (xmas day) the rest are flexible (includes bank holidays). I also have 20 unpaid days a year.

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30 days, plus 10 days public..plus any days i accrue if i work extra hours

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96 hours which is the equivalent of 6.8 weeks for me. :D Plus any time that is worked over and not specifically over time is added up an can be taken as Time Off In Lieu. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2014/05/9.gif

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Our holidays are flexible with the basic entitlement being 25, the minimum allowed is 20 and the maximum is 35 bank holidays are in addition to these.

I take 30 days plus bank holidays.

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I get 32 days and all bank holidays so 40 in total..

I did start with the company on 25 + bh but as time went on they increased.

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never worked mine out but think I get 197 hours plus BH/christmas etc 6months of the year we do a 4 day week, other 6 months 5 day week, 34/40 hour weeks

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25 days + bank holidays. Allowed to carry 5 each year or "sell" them back. Not sure if that applies to all 5 though, I always use them up.

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I tend to sell 40 hours holidays per year, I dont get away much :(

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How do you get half a bank holiday?

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Same as i will get from next april! and i like you make very liitle use of the decent sick pay scheme,so the holiday perk to me is worth a lot.:)

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Unfortunately it's an entitlement to some people who ruin it for the rest eh?! Our sickness policy now puts you on a warning if you have 3 episodes or 10 days in total within a 12 month period - can't say I blame them :(

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25 days plus whatever bank holidays come along.

Often do a lot of travelling so I'm entitled to take any travel time over my contracted hours as time in lieu.

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That's quite good, my oh's company don't do the same even though he often flies out on Sunday night or Monday morning (very early!) returning late on Friday night. Sometimes it's barely enough time to get the washing dry before he's off again!

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That's a bit unfair, they could at least give him the option. Being entitled to it though is a different kettle of fish to being in a position to take it as we all have to do what needs to be done which leaves little time for anything else as you say.

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Well when he took the job it was for 2 days per week in northern Ireland with the rest being home based as he's in IT so could VPN in, but with the recession hitting his company are taking advantage in my opinion. But like he says he's lucky to have a job..

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I get 25 days annual paid holiday, and however many bank holidays and public holidays.
Looking at that list the French don't half have a good work life balance "if you can find a job", more paid holidays than anybody else and a thirty five hour week.:)
It comes as no surprise that the US screw their employee's down to literally no holiday entitlement at all, what else can you expect from the "I'm alright Jack" society.
Both France and the US are at the extremes so I guess we in the UK have it about right.

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I get...

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + the three working days between Christmas Day & New Year's Day.

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I get 24 days plus stats, 32 in total. But for 3 of those days I have to work on a friday for 1/2 hr for free, unpaid on the wages until holiday is taken and 1 of those days is for long service. We get these holidays paid in hourly chunks, 188hrs.

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The equivalent in hours of 25 standard days - 187.5 hours - however I work a longer day than this so works out at slightly less than 20 days a year. Bank Holidays are in addition this.