Holidays at work - How many?

25 + bank holidays.

But being in Oil and Gas and the general unwritten requirement of being available whenever they arn't days you have to take. Plus with the scottish bank holiday system being silly, half the time I don't know what's a bank holiday or local holiday. So they essentially get added to your leave (33 days total) then you take them when you want :)

Naturally if I work offshore or on a job Sat & Sun those days will be given back in Lieu.

Sometimes feel a little for the guys if I'm going away, but proper holidays are holidays and if they are pre-booked then ennjoy them and stop worrying about the company. You work to live, not live to work! A day off here and there if you're in the area or can cancel easily (E.g. weekend away in UK) are sometimes missed. Recently mobbed offshore for nearly 4 weeks, missing a pre-booked weekend to Bristol and my Sister had already booked to fly up the weekend after. Expensing them back to company as pre-booked with no jobs on horizon.

Cannot wait to go to Shanghai for 2.5 weeks. We might be busy but this is a pre-booked trip to see the gf and for a few times each year holiday will not be cancelled in any circumstance (unless there is no choice and work would pay for cancellations for trip and anything either of us have booked).
 
30 days leave plus bank/public/privelige holidays which seems to be 10.5 in total for this year.
 
KaHn said:
Right,

How many holidays do you get to take at work?
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35 days + 8 public holidays + 2.5 privilege days.

And if you get over the normal amount, do you feel bad taking multiple extended periods off even when things are still busy where you work?
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It's always busy but good planning prevents taking holiday entitlement becoming an issue - as it should in any decent company. I never feel bad taking my annual leave entitlement.

Rroff said:
I've never understood this - I think its social conditioning and they somehow believe someones taking note of how hard working they are and think better of them for it or something. Theres a couple of people at work who've only taken ~5 days of their holiday for things like weddings, etc. and are proud of the fact but its not like theres any real potential for career advancement or that anyone in management has taken note of it.
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Quite - mgmt will be more likley to leave those people right where they are - after all, it's no good constantly moving the doormat around is it? You want it in exactly the same place everyday to wipe your boots on ;-)
 
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In US, 15 days plus 11 bank holidays plus 10 sick days (which you can use as holidays), but if you use them up and you are sick you will start paying) and 1 month sabbatical at half pay (which is actually much more than half pay when you take into account the tax savings).
 
I take it that some guys in this thread work for the NHS with the 27 then 29 days :-)

I had 25 last year, will go up to 27 this year, with 9 bank hols because of the Queen's coronation and last year because of the royal wedding. Otherwise it's 8 bank hols.

As for length of hols, I normally take 5 in July, 10 in October, 3 over Christmas, 5 in March and then leave the remaining 3 as random hangover days.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
I am a PhD student but have the same holidays as a university employee. It was a condition by my supervisor that if I did a PhD for him then I am to act like a full time employee.

I get 30 days + University shutdowns (which is 13 days iirc) - Overall a very decent 8 1/2 weeks.

Some people in my office are martyrs who don't take all their holidays. I do not understand this as for around 45 years of my life (I am guessing that is the number of working years in me) I will have looked forward to my holidays from work. I have absolutely no idea why people take pride in having no life. I am talking they have 20 days left each year - You would think that they would like to spend them with their families wouldn't you!?
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I doubt it is no life but no time.

Most of my colleagues doing their PhD spent their holiday allowance by working at home and so avoiding dealing with students, visitors, journalists etc. Very useful when you have a paper deadline or grant proposal to write.

For the last 2 years of my PhD I only took few short holidays (long weekends mostly) and saved up the holiday time to extend my contract by a month or so.

I had 4 weeks a year.
 
Monserrat said:
Seriously? I thought that the legal minimum was 28 days, which is either 20 holidays and 8 bank holidays or 28 altogether if you have to work bank hols. Pro-rata if you work part time.
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That is correct. For somebody who works 5 days a week. 28 days minimum.
 
Monserrat said:
Seriously? I thought that the legal minimum was 28 days, which is either 20 holidays and 8 bank holidays or 28 altogether if you have to work bank hols. Pro-rata if you work part time.
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gregster said:
That is correct. For somebody who works 5 days a week. 28 days minimum.
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We do an average 42 hours per week, on a 4 on 4 off rota. So they convert it to "a day is actually a day and a half". Some weeks we work 4 days, some its 3 days.
 
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