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holiday leave entitlement

  • 23-04-2008 01:50PM
    #1
    shantor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭


    Hi

    Just checking what the average holiday leave entitlement is.. I have been offered a contract with 20 days excl bank holidays and it seems a little low

    what do you guys get per year?

    its a project management / IT job btw


Comments

  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    20 days is the national minimum entitlement for a full-time worker.

    In this country, it's rare enough to be offered "extra" holidays and people aren't all that accustomed to using it as a bargaining tool.

    Some companies who take Good Friday as a holiday will give you 21 days' leave.

    In our place, you get 21 days and the option to take a further 9 as part of your benefits package.


  • #3
    shantor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭shantor


    cheers seamus

    i've got five years experience, it just seems a little low to be offered 20 days


  • #4
    Xcellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭Xcellor


    In the company that I am in now we get 20 days + 2 personal days. Any other days when the company is closed we have to take the time off our holidays or unpaid leave, for example Xmas eve.

    The job I am moving to now gives 25 days plus xmas eve and good friday :D Happy days!!


  • #5
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    5 years experience doesn't automatically count for much when it comes to annual leave, unless you're moving to a company that is very hierarchical and gives more days depending on your grade. 5 years wouldn't be considered very senior though.

    You should check if any of those days are compulsory though - some companies will close the office on days like Good Friday, Christmas Eve and/or days in between Christmas day and New Years, and make you use your annual leave for this. Some companies will give you more days off to make up for this, but if this comes out of the standard 20 days, then you could find yourself down to 3 weeks off plus change that you can choose to take off.


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