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 in the NHS I get 33 days annual leave and 8 bank holiday, I think!! Its all calculated in hours based on my PTE but it works out as about 8 weeks off work

I only work term time but my salary is spread over 13 months. I have great maternity leave cover - 5 months full pay plus 6 months at 50% (?) I think, was ages ago! And this can be taken at a later date up until the child turns 12 (although unpaid if you use it after the child is 18 months). Sick pay is a pain as you need a certificate from day 1 - and when you are off sick they can and do send someone round to check on you. I work part time though and my work is fine with me rescheduling instead of having sick pay so I usually do that for a short illness. I'm in Italy and am lucky to have a good contract, not everyone has one!

25 days holiday, standard UK bank holidays. Full paid 6 months sick then half pay for 6 months. For the first time ever I used more than 2 days this year having 3 weeks off sick.

@AbsentmindedWoman it sounds like you are not in the UK as minimum annual leave days here is 20.

If you are in the States this sounds AMAZING though. Some friends who live in the States (California and New York) get "personnel days" but they cannot be booked in advance, I think they're like "emergency days", so although good, you can't use them to plan holidays. I'd check with your employer how they use them though!!

24 days annual leave + 24 office closure days which includes bank holidays, 8 days at Christmas and a week at Easter.

Full sick pay, although an investigation will happen of you exceed a certain number on the Bradford scale.

5 months full maternity pay then five months SMP.

32 days leave
Bank holidays
Sick leave - full pay first 6 months/ half next 6 months
Emergency/ special leave (paid) - 3 days (Discretionally more of mgr/ HOS approves)
TOIL allowed but discouraged

But pay isn’t great. It’s a trade off for the benefits vs money.

Forgot to say - we also get all national bank holiday plus local saint's day off!

@Vella DH is in finance & I used to be and 30 days plus BH seemed to be the norm.

Makes sense though about July/Aug as lots shuts down then in Europe.

30 days. No bank holidays and no sick days.

Mat pay isn’t great though. 6 weeks 90%, 5 months half, SMP thereafter.

28 days hol
No sick pay
No bank holidays
Also restricted when can take holiday

NHS, I get 35 days however I have to book the 8 bank holidays out of that as my team doesn't work these days. So annual leave I'm free to book is 27 days, increases to 29 days after 5 years service and 33 after 10 years service.

My boss allows me to work very flexibly though and work from home, basically I do 37.5 hours a week, and as long as they are done between 8am and 8pm Monday - Friday, it's all good. I'm very lucky to have a boss that allows this and work in a great team. This is the main reason I stay in this role and don't apply for a higher paid one.

*work from home part of the week

37 days holiday plus Bank holidays in the uk. 6 months full sick pay and 6 months half pay sick pay.

25+10 public.

I work for a church. 30 days leave, which equates to 6 weeks (it's a 6 day working week). Only 6 of those 30 days can be taken on a Sunday. Plus bank holidays, but in practice they're often worked and we get them in lieu.

Surprisingly good maternity pay - 13 weeks full, 13 weeks half, 13 weeks smp.

25 days plus the 8 bank plus can buy up to 5 days. Not a problem for the next 2 years as I go back next week and will carry most of my 20 days over and take them evenly over the 2 years.
Bizarrely no sick pay at all!! Holiday is critical to me though.30 days is my minimum requirement even if I have to buy it. I had 25 years (Yes really!) Of dependent kids and all hols having to be taken for it. Now youngest is at secondary school im going to take days off to meet up with old friends and do spa days and short breaks next year.

30 days leave per annum plus bank holidays.

I'm in the US. I get 30 days of vacation, 12 paid holidays, 10 sick days, and 4 personal days.

29 days holiday plus all the bank holidays so 37 days per year. You can also take volunteering days (I think it's three a year) fully paid. They also offer emergency parental leave up to two weeks per year which is also paid.

Sickness policy is twelve months fully paid and it's rolling so you could say be off for eleven months and be fully paid during that time - come back for a month and the entitlement renews and go off again for another 11 months fully paid, etc. You basically cannot run out of sick time!!

Maternity pay is six months fully paid, SMP for three months then nothing for the remaining three months. When you return you are given time off each week to ease yourself back into working.

And you can buy or sell five days a year but I have never bothered as they don't give you much back for selling and charge a fortune for buying!!

Not civic servant but public funded company.

30 days A/L (long service)
5 day’s bought A/L
8 days B/H
Occasional toil used for half day appointments etc.

Sick pay is 6 months full, 6 months paid.
Mat leave is 6 months full, 3 months SMP.

34 days holiday
All bank holidays
6 months full sick pay, followed by 6 months half pay.

I used to work in the civil service. You started on 25 days AL and this increased after 10 years I think, to 30. We were on flexi time back in the day and I easily built up time that you had to use up before wit got over a certain amount (I think you could have 3 days worth stored at any one time). You could book leave (either annual or flexi leave) in advance and they introduced short notice leave days where you could ring up on the day to request one, but it was first come, first served and there was only about 5 allowed per day so you took your chance if you got one or not, you couldn't rely on it but it was good for those days when you feel a bit grotty but not quite ill enough to take sick leave, but obviously it came out of your leave so if you didn't have any annual leave or flexi leave stored, you couldn't have one. There was also a maximum number any individual could take over a year to make sure people didn't just waste their days on odd days here and there and were able to get a proper break at some point.

Mat leave was 6 months at full pay. No idea what happened after that as I just took the 6 months.

Sick leave was 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay. But HR got involved if it was more than so many periods of sick leave in a year, or if there was a pattern emerging in your sick leave e.g. every Monday etc.

The leave was one of the better things about the job! I work in a school now, so obviously we have the school holidays which are great but flexibility around time off for appointments is a bit wishy washy. Our Head is usually accommodating if he can be as long as you're not frequently taking the piss.

@Stuckforthefourthtime, I work for a charity, but they used to mirror public sector conditions (not pay, sadly, if I did the same job at a local authority, I'd get nearly 50% more money).

Staff who've joined in the last few years don't get conditions anywhere near as good as the conditions when I joined. And it's only people with long service who get a lot of leave, if I was still there in 2 years time, I'd get another 2 days, which would bring me up to 35 days.