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to ask how much annual leave you get?

213 replies

CallTheCat · 17/02/2019 20:30

I get 25 (plus bank hols) days, and tbh I don't think I could take a job with much less than that.

The statutory minimum (28 including bank hols), seems to stingy, yet a lot of jobs seem to offer this. Even when i worked in a supermarket I got more than that.

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Auslander · 18/02/2019 21:57

42 days plus bank holidays.
I work 7 on, 7 off so effectively I'm only physically at work 4 months out of 12.

Averysmallcasserole · 18/02/2019 21:58

Not as many as most on here SadEnvy

EggplantVestibule · 18/02/2019 22:01

I'm amazed at how much holiday most of you get. We get 18 days plus bank holidays at my company (uk).

hammylehamster · 18/02/2019 22:04

34 + an extra day if no sick leave in the last 12 months + bank holidays

Bishalisha · 18/02/2019 22:17

@EggplantVestibule I thought legal minimum was 20 + bank holidays.

I’ve never worked anywhere with decent annual leave.

1 job was 20 days plus bank holidays but there was a 2 week compulsory shit down period over Christmas

The other had 3 days compulsory shut down over Christmas with 20 days + 8 bank holiday days.

resipsa · 18/02/2019 22:17

Lots of holiday is great but if you work in a field where your minutes count (mine - law - every 6 of them) more holiday just means fewer days in which to record your target hours!

resipsa · 18/02/2019 22:21

I genuinely don't understand the jobs that give you, say, 2-3 months of holiday per year (average working days in month about 22 so any job giving you 44 plus) - what do you do that only takes 10 months out of 12 to do on a FT basis?

Bumper1969 · 18/02/2019 22:23

As a teacher, in Ireland I get 195 days and I enjoy every one of them.

resipsa · 18/02/2019 22:25

Aside from teaching Smile

teenagetantrums · 18/02/2019 22:28

5 weeks plus extra for bank holidays worked so about 5and half weeks a year.

CostanzaG · 19/02/2019 07:44

I genuinely don't understand the jobs that give you, say, 2-3 months of holiday per year (average working days in month about 22 so any job giving you 44 plus) - what do you do that only takes 10 months out of 12 to do on a FT basis

I'm a university academic. I always make sure I take at least a month off over the summer and have a decent Xmas and Easter break otherwise I'd burn out.

midgwit · 19/02/2019 07:55

I get 30 days plus bank holidays, and can make 2 flexi days every 4 weeks so an extra 26 days.

Taylia · 19/02/2019 14:04

33 days plus 8 BH, taken 10 years service to get that though.
We have the option to buy extra holiday but I never have.

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