26th June 2007, 12:59 PM
I would add that the legal minimum is just that, a minimum, and not necessarily a standard. In my experience, outside archaeology, if for example you started a new job in April but has already booked a fortnight in the Dordogne in July, it would be customary for the employer to honour existing holiday commitments - at least in the professions. Employers are not always ogres out to screw the last drop from their employees - and indeed vice versa. (But some are of course.)
You don't know what you've got till it's gone.
You don't know what you've got till it's gone.