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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by gnfargbl on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:07AM (#26850953)
As a small caveat, the 5.6 weeks (28 days) is allowed to include the eight statutory bank holidays, and almost always does (i.e. the worker can't insist that they not be paid for the bank holiday, and take the holiday day some other time). So the minimum amount of non-discretionary holiday that a worker can accrue is usually four weeks.

In practice the actual baseline offered in many jobs seems to be five weeks, plus bank holidays.

Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by Closi on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:00PM (#26854765)
As a further caveat, bank holidays are actually not different to the remaining holiday allowance in law.

Employers can dictate exactly when you take all of your holiday allowance by law, it’s just that this doesn’t happen in reality. Similarly they can force you to work bank holidays.