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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

20 is the legal minimum in the UK? Sheesh. In my current job, I had to negotiate for a 3rd week (15 days instead of 10, the regular two days off don’t count as vacation days that week).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We also have public holidays (We call them all Bank Holidays for historical reasons, but it's things like Christmas, Easter and a couple of others), there's usually 8 in a year and that's on top of your 20 days.

    Employers can make you work a bank holiday, you just get another day off instead. So really it's 28 days holiday per year, with 8 of them being the public ones that you may or may not have to work.

    My employer gives us 30 + the Bank Holidays, then we got took over by an American firm which ironically introduced unlimited PTO.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    introduced unlimited PTO

    How does this work in practice? What if someone just takes the whole year off? Or would they just get fired for their work not being done?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Managers still need to approve it and it's their discretion to decide if someone is taking the piss or not.

    I recently found out one of my managers was just arbitrarily not approving more than 30 days off in a year and he got a good bollocking for it.

    So far nobody had actually taken the piss with it, if anything people end up taking less.

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