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Sounds illegal in the UK. Workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks (https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-r

Sounds illegal in the UK. Workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks (https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights). ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here?

Gabriel_Martin 9y ago
please do
lgierth 9y ago
> ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here? I don't see why that'd not be allowed -- please do go ahead!
DanBC 9y ago
> Am I allowed to publish the link here? Yes. If it's your own work, and it meets the rules, you can post it as a "Show HN" too. https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show
- leonagano 9y ago
  Thank you! Already posted as "Show HN" some days ago
randomdata 9y ago
5.6 weeks throughout the year is not incompatible with limits on the consecutive weeks at time though. Three vacations periods a year, each two weeks long, is still six weeks total, both satisfying the minimum number of days you preset here as well as the company limits on vacation length given by the OP. Is there anything in UK law that prevents businesses from requesting that the 5.6 weeks be spread out throughout the year from their employees?
leonagano 9y ago
https://stretchyourannualleave.com https://stretchyourannualleave.com
- tvmalsv 9y ago
  That's pretty cool, bookmarked :) I also like the design of the site. Well done! Do enough people take off the day after Thanksgiving that it's considered a holiday? I don't get Black Friday off unless I specifically request it. Otherwise it's just a normal workday (though often the office is empty that day, so I guess it's a distinction without a difference).
  - leonagano 9y ago
    Thank you! I got a list of the usual paid holidays observed by companies
dghughes 9y ago
When you wrote "help workers get the longest possible vacation" I thought of the trick of padding or extending vacation days. Taking vacation days on both ends of a holiday but not in the middle since they are mandatory days off anyway. At some companies employees with seniority abuse that trick. They use vacation days before and after statutory holidays so it works out to be one long vacation. They often do this when lower ranks don't have first pick forcing them to use bigger blocks of vacation time. It creates a toxic work environment because everyone knows when a holiday is coming up "you know who" will be gone longer.
- leonagano 9y ago
  In Ireland and in the UK is not uncommon. Some friends use 2 or 3 vacation days before or after public holidays and end up with 7 or 8 days off and they are not abusing their "powers"
- mcintyre1994 9y ago
  Do people consider this abuse? I go home over Christmas to see family, it's a complete no brainer to use about 5 days holiday and get 2 weeks off. Though my holidays don't interfere with anyone else's, I can see why that would frustrate others if they did.

Gabriel_Martin 9y ago

please do

lgierth 9y ago

> ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here? I don't see why that'd not be allowed -- please do go ahead!

DanBC 9y ago

> Am I allowed to publish the link here? Yes. If it's your own work, and it meets the rules, you can post it as a "Show HN" too. https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show

leonagano 9y ago
Thank you! Already posted as "Show HN" some days ago

randomdata 9y ago

5.6 weeks throughout the year is not incompatible with limits on the consecutive weeks at time though. Three vacations periods a year, each two weeks long, is still six weeks total, both satisfying the minimum number of days you preset here as well as the company limits on vacation length given by the OP. Is there anything in UK law that prevents businesses from requesting that the 5.6 weeks be spread out throughout the year from their employees?

leonagano 9y ago

https://stretchyourannualleave.com https://stretchyourannualleave.com

tvmalsv 9y ago
That's pretty cool, bookmarked :) I also like the design of the site. Well done! Do enough people take off the day after Thanksgiving that it's considered a holiday? I don't get Black Friday off unless I specifically request it. Otherwise it's just a normal workday (though often the office is empty that day, so I guess it's a distinction without a difference).
- leonagano 9y ago
  Thank you! I got a list of the usual paid holidays observed by companies

dghughes 9y ago

When you wrote "help workers get the longest possible vacation" I thought of the trick of padding or extending vacation days. Taking vacation days on both ends of a holiday but not in the middle since they are mandatory days off anyway. At some companies employees with seniority abuse that trick. They use vacation days before and after statutory holidays so it works out to be one long vacation. They often do this when lower ranks don't have first pick forcing them to use bigger blocks of vacation time. It creates a toxic work environment because everyone knows when a holiday is coming up "you know who" will be gone longer.

leonagano 9y ago
In Ireland and in the UK is not uncommon. Some friends use 2 or 3 vacation days before or after public holidays and end up with 7 or 8 days off and they are not abusing their "powers"
mcintyre1994 9y ago
Do people consider this abuse? I go home over Christmas to see family, it's a complete no brainer to use about 5 days holiday and get 2 weeks off. Though my holidays don't interfere with anyone else's, I can see why that would frustrate others if they did.