I have often taken 5 days holiday, and worked for the other 2, meaning I get paid 7 days worth of pay for 2 days work.
I only get 20 days per year plus ten bank holiday’s, so wouldn’t sell any. However, after ten years, Australians are entitled to long service leave of no less than 
FIFTEEN weeks! I will probably get some of them paid out, provided of course, that I’m still at my current employer.
Coffeeholic:
newmercman:
Coffeeholic:
Not sure it would even be legal. There is a statutory minimum amount of holiday everyone is entitled to, 5.6 weeks. If you sell a week you might not get the legal minimum. back in the day you could work a weeks holiday and get double bubble but you can no longer do that.Seriously?
You can’t work your holiday and get double bubble as it would be against the law?
A law was actually passed that makes it illegal?
OMFG.
The law wasn’t directly passed to make that illegal. The law came in to give everyone a minimum amount of holidays. This was to stop those companies that gave very small holiday allowances. Places for instance would give 20 days but that would include the bank holidays, giving the employee just 12 days holiday a year. Some were less than that.
The 5.6 weeks thing is to give 4 weeks (20 days) minimum holiday to everyone who works a 5 day week plus the 8 bank holidays. Some places give their employees the full 28 days plus the bank holidays.
This isn’t a bad law, it was introduced to make sure everyone got a minimum amount and to stop companies giving poor holiday allowances or refusing to give the holidays and saying you’ll have to work them and we will pay you. Unfortunately the flip side to this means that with a legal minimum in place the companies cannot allow you to take less than that so working your holidays and getting paid is no longer an option, apart from days that are over and above that minimum.
It wasn’t brought in to stop people earning extra and unions were among those pushing for its introduction. It’s a far better law for the workers than the companies.
one of the many safe guards and employment rights that Farage and his chums are all to eager to get rid of along with maternity and other employment safe guards but everybody is blindsided by his little englander anti immigrant/EU rhetoric but hey we will all live in a nice uk utopia once he gets his way
When I was at work all I cared about was holidays. The more the merrier. Going to work just to pay bills? No thanks. As for working my holidays the missus would have strung me up. Suppose I was lucky to work with blokes who enjoyed it. Always one volunteering for summat for brownie points.