Annual leave allowance - 15 days???

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15 days, 5 of which have to be taken at Christmas - is this allowed? Seems low to me - I thought 20 days was minimum or am I making it up?!

TIA

I thought 20 was the minimum too! Crikey, I hope it's not 15 - DH gets 20, and if his employers and him thought for a second he could be in for 5 days more each year, he'd be there

pretty sure 15 is okay as long as you get bank hols as well, which works out at 20?

I thought it was 20 days as well.

I thought it was 20 days as well.

think of the poor sods in Canada, they start off with only 2 weeks!

there are 8 bank holidays per year arent there? i get those and 3 weeks. so yes, that seems right.

Legal minimum is 4 weeks, which can include Public Holidays so 15 days is ok if it is no more than a 3.75 day week.

Yes they can specify when you take them.

No it's full time - 8.30am to 5.30 pm

that's it? sorry, but f*&k that. that sounds like America to me.

The Working Time Directive says

Every worker – whether part-time or full-time – covered by these regulations is entitled to four weeks’ paid annual leave. This includes workers who are subject to the Road Transport Directive.

A week’s leave should allow workers to be away from work for a week. It should be the same amount of time as the working week: if a worker does a 5-day week, he or she is entitled to 20 days’ leave; if he or she does a 3-day week, the entitlement is 12 days’ leave.

The leave entitlement under the regulations is not additional to bank holidays. There is no statutory right to take bank holidays off. Therefore a worker who is not otherwise paid in respect of bank holidays may take bank holidays as part of his or her annual leave entitlement in order to receive payment for these holidays

Workers must give the employer notice that they want to take leave.

Employers can set the times that workers take their leave, for example for a Christmas shutdown.

If a worker’s employment ends, he or she has a right to be paid for the leave time due and not taken.