Supertoots

Hi Everyone

In the UK I typically get around 25 days annual leave, plus the normal bank holidays.

With my new contract, it states just 20 days holiday. Is this standard? Or should I ask for more?

How many bank holiday days are there in Australia each year.

Thanks,

elice_in_oz

Four weeks (20 working days) is standard here. Google tells me NSW had 10 public holidays in 2010.

bcworld

20 days annual leave is standard + public holidays.

http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.g..._Holidays.html

karen1403

Would we get the day off for the Royal wedding in april in Oz if the UK are? lol (worth a try)

Supertoots

Ah ok. Thats not too bad then. Thanks everyone.

spottydog

Given the confusion the Anzac Day/Easter clash has caused the state governments in public holidays next year I think adding an extra day to the same week is probably likely to be not a buckleys

James516

Which states aren't going to have a five day weekend for Easter 2011? Qld certainly is having 5 days of glory. It might even be sunny by then!

To the OP - count yourself lucky. I worked in the public sector in the UK and we got 30 days + bank holidays. Cutting back to 20 was a shock to the system

ABCDiamond

It gets offset by the fact that we get the Queens Birthday as a Holiday, but the UK don't

The NSW 2011 Holidays are listed as:

1. Monday, 3 January New Year's Day
2. Wednesday, 26 January Australia Day
3. Friday, 22 April Good Friday
4. Saturday, 23 April Easter Saturday
5. Tuesday, 26 April Easter Monday
6. Monday, 25 April Anzac Day
7. Monday, 13 June Queen's Birthday
8. Monday, 1 August Bank Holiday
9. Monday, 3 October Labour Day
10. Monday, 26 December Christmas Day
11. Tuesday, 27 December Boxing Day

There are other days that some areas of NSW also get.

Mr Grumpy

Yeah, but that level of generosity to all staff has proven to financially unsustainable. The UK is massively slashing public service positions and benefits. It will normalise to more the Australian standard.

It would be great for most workers to get that, but history has shown it just can't be maintained forever. Australia has a more realistic level of benefits and leave.

Its a hell of a lot better than the USA and Canada.

Hills Boy

Snap. I had 30 days in the UK (private, not public) and it's 20 days here. But it's not as cut & dried as that because here you get other types of leave: sick (which accrues?), long service, care, etc, etc.

I'm sure someone has run the numbers and has a really cool macro and pivot table-based Excel spreadsheet that takes 1,000 lines of calculation to confirm that it all works out about even in the end.

ABCDiamond

1,005 actually

spottydog

As an FYI the bank holiday only applies if you work for a bank (for everyone else it is just a day the banks are shut on)

ABCDiamond

It is interesting how NSW lists that day in the list of "NSW Public Holidays 2010-2012" at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au...vacations.html

The only rider being ** Not a state-wide public holiday.

I was just reading up on Queensland Public Holidays and found this change for 2010...
The Holidays Act 1983 was amended to provide for the observance of two public holidays for Christmas Day on 25 and 28 December 2010 and for two public holidays for New Year's Day on 1 and 3 January. That gives us 12 each year for 2010 and 2011

spartacus

This is Australia . . . everyday's a holiday day!

spottydog

Personally I never feel a public holiday on a Saturday is a public holiday as I don't work weekends anyway. With the moving of the public holiday for Christmas and new year this year I don't get any extra days off (just don't lose any either like we did recently when Anzac Day fell on a weekend)

The bank holiday is a sneaky one as it affects all banks & credit unions in NSW. Working in banking I love this extra day off when the OH has to go to work .