A nifty trick if you fancy an extended holiday at the end of April next year!!

im self employed, every day is a bank holiday

no wait, actually every days a work day, including BH :(
 
I'm surprised so many companies seem to be happy dishing out 36+ days of holiday per year when they are only obliged to do 28.
 
Not usually

Only if you get those days.

most companies take "public" holidays off your total entitlement.

When this is done at all, they take the 8 days out of your statutory entitlement of 28 days. Therefore you have 20 days in addition[/I] to them. So you can take 4 of the 20 and still get the 11 days off.
 
We work bank holidays but I get extra days holiday to book. I get 33 days. Not bad really. With my rota, there are plenty of times that I can book a few days off and get a good break.
 
I believe recently the way the minimum entitlement was calculated was changed.

The standard for a long time seemed to be 20 days vacation (not including bank holidays). Now vacation allowances are shown including the public holidays so people have 28 days. The reality is that for most people there is no change. They either had 20 (plus 8) before, or just 28 now.
 
If your work shuts and you have to have bank holiays off this is a good idea, if not take your 11 days sometime else when everything isn't full of queues and kids.
 
I'm surprised so many companies seem to be happy dishing out 36+ days of holiday per year when they are only obliged to do 28.

incentives and long standing awards. why be surprised? its amazing how much people cant wait for their x year in a company to get another day or two off
 
Due to the vagaries of Easter being movable (I was raised a Catholic and I've still no idea how the guy managed to die any time between March and May :confused:)

Easter comes at the end of lent. Lent is 6 weeks long and starts at the time of the Jewish passover festival. The Jewish calendar is a lunar one, thus the passover festival moves around and as result, so does Easter.
 
Gutted I work in a restaurant now :( if I have to work another christmas this year I'll shoot myself.

Christmas work for us every year is ridiculously lucrative, and I'm talking £1500+ a day, Christmas eve, Christmas day and Boxing day. Am I working it? Like **** am I. 5 years of working every Christmas, I'm having this one off.
 
Thanks, me + 1 workmate have just booked this off. That'll get people talking! :D

Good spot, OP, I usually miss out on this sort of stuff because one of my eagle-eyed colleagues gets in first.
 
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