It also depends on where you did your thesis in the first place. The UK has stronger protections for grad students than the US (not hard to do). In any case it

It also depends on where you did your thesis in the first place. The UK has stronger protections for grad students than the US (not hard to do). In any case it shouldn't be up to whether you had a permissive advisor or not, PhD students like everyone deserve time off, and without legal protections that always gets abused.