BlinkyBill:

Geektastic:

kingjj:

Geektastic: NZ has a fairly low number of days already. My last UK job I had 30 days leave, 13 public holidays and what amounted to unlimited sick leave on full salary.

My brother in the US gets 20 days, but works from about 7 am to 7 pm the rest of the time. As he says, if you're there, it is what it is. His $25k bonus probably eases the pain.

In NZ here. I get 6 weeks annual leave, accumulate all stat days (whether I work them or not) and 15+ sick days per annum (which are banked).

The way I read UK leave entitlements is that all fulltime employees are to have 5.6 weeks of annual leave per annum, which can include bank holidays... so really the entitlements between the UK and NZ are very similar. As with any job in any country employees/employers can negotiate their contracts/leave entitlements as they see fit.

I've never seen a UK white collar job where public holidays are part of annual leave.

Mind you, as a self employed person I get no paid leave, so that's sobering.

The Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 defines UK Bank Holidays. Normally there are 8 days for any one of the countries, slight variations. The Act does not guarantee a paid holiday day on a Bank Holiday, so it is standard practice to include Bank Holidays, where paid leave, in the employment contract.

It would be a pretty unusual agreement in the U.K. where the 13 country variants were applied to an employee domiciled in one country. Standard practice would be, e.g. if resident in England you would get the English variants only, Scotland the Scottish ones, etc.