Your holiday entitlement

[Cloo]

My bro's in the civil service and had huge quantities of hols... seems to be going off somewhere all the bloody time.

 

[zora]

Just gone up to 25 days +BH for everyone, having previously been starting at 22 days + BH, and adding a day on for each year of service with the company. Pleased about the extra allowance, I must say.

25 days + BH for me, if I stay in the same job for another 9 years, I'll get an extra day added. Well worth it.

 

[goldenecitrone]

13 weeks plus bank holidays. But management are trying to take a week off us, fooking bastards.

 

[Hollis]

My bro's in the civil service and had huge quantities of hols... seems to be going off somewhere all the bloody time.

Civil Service - one big gravey train.

 

[citydreams]

Civil Service - one big gravey train.

Bring back the days of silver platter! That should get productivity up.

 

[Techno303]

Academic & academic related staff get an additional 5 days a year, although you'd think they get more judging by how often some of them are in the building.

Not at my university we don’t (a London ‘red brick’).

I get 25 days, plus the bank holidays and a job lot of university closed days.

 

[resonate]

I get 25 days AL + 6 days shutdown + Bank holidays as a researcher at a London Uni.
However, it's not difficult to get extra time off now and then, as long as you get the work done.

 

[EastEnder]

13 weeks plus bank holidays. But management are trying to take a week off us, fooking bastards.

I hope you soon have a deeply distressing accident involving a large quantity of ketamine, honey and the worlds biggest colony of thoroughly irritable, killer ants.

 

[WasGeri]

22 days plus bank holidays.

I'm a bit miffed actually as it used to be 20 days basic plus an extra day for each year of service, to a maximum of 25. They changed it to 22 days when I had been there for two years - so it didn't affect me then, now I've been there five years I realise I could have had three extra days. Thing is, the people on 25 days haven't lost any, so now there are some people on 25 and some on 22, which I don't think is fair.

Since posting this thread, I have spoken with my boss and he has agreed that I should have 25 days now.

 

[goldenecitrone]

I hope you soon have a deeply distressing accident involving a large quantity of ketamine, honey and the worlds biggest colony of thoroughly irritable, killer ants.

Now, now. Do I detect a hint of envy in this post. It does not become a gentleman such as yourself. Four weeks till half-term.

 

[Space Girl]

I get 6 weeks holidays plus bank holiday allowance, I get my allowance in hours (320 hours approx)as I work shifts but as I have a great shift so I can actually take off nearly 15 single weeks off a year (take off 22 hours to get 1 week off), it's a very cool system

 

[coastloop]

Why don't you just learn a language?

 

[nogoodboyo]

Kinell. I thought I was doing ok with 26 (20 basic, the rest for long service) but clearly not compared to public sector workers.

 

[EastEnder]

Kinell. I thought I was doing ok with 26 (20 basic, the rest for long service) but clearly not compared to public sector workers.

Public sector workers tend to do far better when it comes to holidays, benefits, pensions, etc than private sector.

I work in the private sector and get a basic salary + 20 days a year holiday. And that's it. Absolutely it. No benefits, no pension, no length of service related extras, nothing.

I'd like to see a public sector role that requires a degree and years of experience where you get so little in return!

 

[Swearing Nonna]

Most public sector workers at ground level need the extra benefits, holidays and stuff to make up for the shite pay I reckon!

28 days + bank holidays for me, after 5 years you get an extra day for each year worked (slaved) up to a max of 28.

 

[fractionMan]

Including the 5 I carried over from last year, this year I get a whopping 33 + bank holidays + the bit between crimbo and new year.

I have a felelign I've posted already, but I wanted to tell everyone. Again.

 

[EastEnder]

Most public sector workers at ground level need the extra benefits, holidays and stuff to make up for the shite pay I reckon!

There's probably some truth to that.

Whilst not in all, in many roles I suspect that the disparity between public & private sector is significantly lessened when all the extras are taken into account. If I added up what it would cost me to get extra time off work, pay into a pension scheme, maybe health insurance, etc, etc, it'd probably knock quite a chunk off my salary. Especially when you take into account that paying for things yourself, rather than getting them from an employer, is always more expensive - institutions get better rates due to economies of scale.

 

[J77]

...and teachers need the massive holidays to make up for all the extra time they have to put in between lessons and after school!

 

[nogoodboyo]

Most public sector workers at ground level need the extra benefits, holidays and stuff to make up for the shite pay I reckon!

28 days + bank holidays for me, after 5 years you get an extra day for each year worked (slaved) up to a max of 28.

In the past that was true, but I don't think it is now, outside London at least. The public sector is much bigger and better paid than it was in 1997.

 

[ChrisFilter]

21 days, plus bank holidays.

 

[Groucho]

Ours went up to 30 days after a series of strikes in 2001 that also increased pay by £2000 pa over three seperate pay increases all of which were declared very final offers...