How many days of holiday, leave, sick days do you get?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

How many days do you get, and do you feel it is enough to restore you?

What do you think is a generous amount, and what is measly?

I know MN is mainly UK but interested in responses from all countries. I'm looking for jobs in the US, and my god it is so complicated! All companies have different mixes of vacation days, personal days, holidays (pretty much think this is like bank hols, and if the office is closed for Christmas etc) and then rather confusingly - a set amount of sick days.

I'm on a term- time only contract so I get 12 weeks off a year but only 5 weeks but only 5 weeks of that is paid leave.

I'm not sure about sick leave but I think it's six months on full pay and then it drops to half pay. Carers leave is at management's discretion, I've had a couple of days paid leave when I've been unable to come in as DS has been poorly.

The US system with sick days is really confusing. I'm UK based but I manage a team in the US and they are given a certain number of sick days per year which they can take instead of holiday. Their actual holiday entitlement is only around 15 days per year but they can take up to 25 days off?

I have the impression workplaces in America can be stingy on this. I'm UK public sector so it's pretty generous (29 days plus 8bank holidays)

UK private sector
28 days + 8 bank holidays
Can buy or sell and additional 5 each year

Can't remember sick leave, I think it's 28 days full pay then SSP or something equally high. That's in a rolling 12 month period

We also get 3 family care days per year, fully funded no questions asked if you need them.

Standard UK holiday allowance. I'm salaried but if I'm sick they take it off my holiday allowance. Care home manager.

DH and I run a business in the UK.

We had the grand total of four days off last year. And no sick leave.

I'm seriously envious reading all the above

31 A/L plus 8 bank Holidays & 12 flexi (toil). Sick pay 6 months full (but they often pay longer if needed) 6 months 1/2 pay then on to statutory sick pay.

I couldn't work in the USA, no work/life balance!

I get 35 days holiday
1 year full pay sick leave - but can be more depending on illness.

30 days plus all the bank holidays and an extra "work holiday day"

And we can take up to 2 days a month as Flexi but I usually covert extra time worked into overtime instead. I work with flexible hours anyway.

Sick I think we get up to 6 mths on full pay but I haven't taken any in ages.

I'm looking for jobs in the US, and my god it is so complicated! All companies have different mixes of vacation days, personal days, holidays (pretty much think this is like bank hols, and if the office is closed for Christmas etc) and then rather confusingly - a set amount of sick days.

Companies in the US do have lots of different ways of portioning out time off.

In my last US job I got 28 days paid time off, plus public holidays, plus if I was ill for longer than a week I was paid short term disability at 70% of pay.

DH is on a similar deal but I think his PTO is 25 days a year.

One advantage of sick days is that you can often bank them each year. A friend recently told me she had something like 75 days banked, and that when she left her job they paid her for all of it.

You can often also use PTO that other people donate.

If you're going to work in the US you do need to understand PTO, short term disability, long term disability and health insurance.

Canada - so slightly better than the us but not much.

15 days annual leave plus 12 public holidays. 10 paid sick days - can be used for appointments and if a child is sick and needs care as well as actual sickness. This is more than legally required (10 days leave and no paid sick). Long term sick covered by government.

Would definitely like more holiday - one of downsides to living here. Although where I work people tend to leave on time and make the most of evenings and weekends.

UK
25 days holiday
8 days bank holiday
Birthday leave
Sick- first three days unpaid, six weeks after that at full pay, next six weeks at half pay, anything after that SSP

25 days leave, (Only because I am in a senior role, more junipr roles get 22 days) 8 bank hols. No TOIL and it is expected that you will do over and above, eg evening or all day events with no financial or time recompense.
Sick leave, depends how long you've been in post, so it varies from 2 - 12 weeks a rolling year.

I had to go back to work for three days between my father's death and his funeral.

UK national charity.

I've worked in the US for over 20 years. I've been with my current company for 15 years. I currently have 22 vacation days + plus one floating holiday. I have capped out here, I won't get any more. I get 8 sick days a year and they do not roll over. I must use them by December 31st or lose them. You better believe I use them. We also get two days off in November for Thanksgiving and a couple of national holidays throughout the year. Martin Luther King Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. This is enough time off for me but my God it took me a long time to get it. The US is so stingy about vacation. People going overseas for 10 days is a HUGE deal. It's hardly ever done.

27.5-31.5 days annual leave (increases with how long you've worked there up to the max of 31.5)
8 bank holidays
up to 2 days TOIL (flexi) per month
also more toil for covering weekends occasionally (between 5-20 days per year)
can also buy/sell/carry over days as long as it doesn't go above 40 annual leave days in total, although covid was an exception.

Because I had a holiday last minute cancelled in March (so had to carry it over) and have been covering other people's work so accrued toil I worked out I have about 16 weeks leave this year. No idea how I'm going to use all that but I think they are relaxing the rules so we can carry on more into next year.

Sick leave is 6 months full then six months half pay.
It's not like the US though where I know a lot of companies put all leave together in a bundle (so if you have 20 days and you're sick for a month that's all your holiday gone too) - sick leave is completely separate from annual leave here.

I'd say standard for private sector is 25 days plus ability to buy/sell 5 & BH.

Public sector probably 30 days plus BH.

Sick pay/mat pay will likely be better in public sector too. Although DB got 3 months paid paternity in the private sector.

@LockdownQ actually a majority of salaried private sector employees in the UK get the statutory minimum. I think the posts here align with the overall slant of Mumsnet - heavy on middle class, heavy on public sector workers.

Bare minimum as set out in law. Still given begrudgingly and yes, I am looking for another job!

21 days holiday. 8 bank holidays. No sick pay entitlement, just ssp, first 3 days unpaid.

28 days
Bank holidays
Don’t know re sick leave ! I only take a few days a year and then Dr note for anything major

I'm in Europe
10 bank holidays
48 days holiday (can buy up to 20 more)

Is that standard? Surely they have to employ cover?

33 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays. Do 12 hour shifts but each annual leave day only covers 8 hours so get less than 33 days. No sick pay other than statutory sick unless work related injury, I'm a nurse working in a challenging autism hospital so injuries happen.

25 days + 8 Bank holidays.
After a years service we get an extra 5 days leave (which I will get next month).

No idea on sick pay as I haven't needed to use it yet.

I only work 29 weeks a year. Think I am paid for 34.

31 days including bank holidays.