Great Britain : the government plans to extend the current statutory holiday entitlement from 20 to 28 days

In 1998, Tony Blair’s government had established a minimum of 20 paid holidays, which had enabled 2 million people to take holidays for the first time. But many employers include in these 4 weeks the 8 annual and intangible public holidays. This practice penalizes over two million employees, “generally badly-paid, women, part-time workers or ethnic minorities “, said the Secretary of State in charge of Businesses and Work, Jim Fitzpatrick, who launched on June 13 a consultation on the subject