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Andrew Boylan
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Yes, to my knowledge they will do. We have altered the working time regs recently to exclude bank holidays and this has undoubtedly come from Europe - the Govt. will not have increased this in an act of independant benevolance.
I think looking to Europe is always good in the first instance as the legislation is often common. I am reminded, however, of a story a nurse told me about the potential of moving to the US with her specific skills. She pointed out that she would get less holidays in the US but would recieve substantially more pay than that offered by the NHS and be able to spend that holiday in sunshine!!
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Andrew Boylan
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Justin that seems, to me, a spurious arguement - by bringing the USA into the debate you muddy the waters deliberatly. We get substanitally less bank holidays than other European countries and all European Union countries come under the Working Time Regulations and thus there is a minimum standard of paid holidays across Europe.
As you will be aware, Britain has had to alter the Working Time Directive to stop using Bank Holidays as part of the leave entitlement ercently - thus our paid leave capacity was, undoubtedly, much lower than it should have been also.
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