What is the usual holiday entitlement (days per year)in the UK?

[Calliaussie]

I'm in Australia and am wondering if it is usual to get more holiday days for UK employees than we do here?

I get 3 weeks holiday annually which I think is fairly standard for office and retail type jobs. Of course teachers are different and there would be different arrangements for other sectors too, but I'm just interested to compare with what is normal in the UK?

Asking because quite a lot of people on this board seem to go on multiple holidays each year which, even if I had the money, I wouldn't be able to do because I wouldn't have enough holiday days. Wondering if people in the UK commonly get more than 3 weeks?

I get 31 days + bank holidays, so usually 39 days.

Actually it isn’t
there is no legal minimum for the self employed- so that includes Amazon delivery drivers etc

33 days plus bank holidays. Long service in NHS.

I have lived and worked in Australia for five years. Yes, I would say that holiday entitlements are generally a touch better in the UK. So are other leave entitlements such as maternity. There is no such thing as long service leave in the UK, but as it takes seven years to accrue any, a lot of people won’t benefit from that anyway.

I found in Australia that despite not particularly generous leave, some people would accrue it and accrue it, I know people that had 80 days leave accrued and had to go onto plans to run it down. In the UK you generally would not be allowed to do that, use it or lose it (to a point).

Well self employed aren’t employees!

The 5.6 weeks is the legal minimum for employees.

Standard nhs 33 days plus 8 bank holidays…. Although also have the option to buy another 2 weeks

Civil service. 31 days + 8 bank hols + 2 privilege days. Plus flexi, which will usually provide another few weeks but I work long hours.

As PP say, 28 days. I get 33. It’s something I always negotiate.

I get 32.5 days plus 8 bank holiday, but I have 37 years service. It took I think 10-15 years to get the full allocation.

Many places start on four weeks plus bank holidays but I think the legal minimum is four weeks including bank holidays.

I get similar and it increases with years worked, but we also get the option to buy holidays. This has never made sense to me.
Why buy a day off, why not just take it unpaid? I dont mean calling in sick or just randomly taking a day off, I mean a legally allowed unpaid day?

Ps up to six months full pay on sick leave and six months half pay - no long service needed - must be evidenced with sick notes. Bradford Factor used for self certification.

I get 30 days plus 10.5 public and privilege days (I’m a civil servant so we get the bank hols plus a couple extra days). So just over 8 weeks in total.

@Terfydactyl where I’ve worked before if you ‘buy’ days the cost is spread out over the year/remaining year so it’s easy for some people to do that than take an unpaid day which is taken out of a single months pay. I think it might also impact pensions and so on - if you buy a day you are still getting paid the same amount but owe your employer for the day (like you would if you owed them for a season ticket) whereas if you take a day unpaid then your actually pay is lower - if that makes sense!

I get 30 days and I buy another five and then bank holidays on top!

I get 41 days including bank Holidays so that's 8 bank Holidays and as well as 6 weeks to take whenever I want