Annual leave

[Clohow]

Hi, I have been offered a role which is perfect except the annual leave. I was told that I’d have 28 days leave, that the office closes for two weeks over Christmas, I’d have to use 10 days for that and have 18 days annual leave left for the year.

How do I politely broach this or do I accept and go with it?

That is a tough deal. My last job shut for a week at Christmas and gave that bare minimum leave and also insisted on no leave in July or September. Really sucked.

If you reread my post , you’ll see that I said “thought to be cushy”. It obviously work in a university. We get the legal minimum but are not permitted to take annual leave in term time. And one place I worked at was in danger of financial collapse a couple of decades ago, so the deal was we worked Monday bank holidays during semesters. Universities are not the sinecure people assume - my workload is such that I rarely have the time to take the 20 days I do get.

Which company did you work for?
Few SME's offer anything like those terms.

I was a Civil Servant, the leave & flexible working were the only things that were any good, we got paid a lot less than any equivalent post in the private sector.

Personally I’d turn the job down. Small companies are an absolute nightmare to work for. Having worked for several over the years, without exception they have all treated their employees really badly.

My current employer offers 26 days annual leave as standard, plus the option to buy an additional 5 days, bank holidays plus your birthday off and two paid volunteering days a year.