[Fitchick]

How many days holdiay do people get in NZ?
My OH works in IT in the UK and is used to getting 29 with Bank holidays on top (luck him!). :roll

Fitchick

[wiki]

The legal minimum annual-leave in New Zealand is currently three weeks, plus eleven days of public-holidays.

But it will go up to four weeks as of April 1.

Some places off a holiday increase depending on how many years of service you have.

As far as I know public holidays (ie Bank Hols) are extra to the four weeks (they can be included in the total in UK)

The eleven NZ public holidays are:

New Year's Day
Day after New Year's Day (why have one holiday when you can have too?)
Waitiangi Day: Feb 6 (marks the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi)
Anzac Day: April 25 (NZ's version of Rememberance Sunday)
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Queen's Birthday: First Monday in June (yes a day off to mark Liz getting older)
Labour Day: 4th Monday in Oct (marks the introduction of the 40-hour week)
Christmas Day
Boxing Day

Each province also gets an Anniversay Day off - it varies depending on where in the country you are:

Wellington is Jan 22
Auckland is Jan 29
Canterbury Dec 16
Otago March 23
Hawkes Bay Nov 1
Taranaki March 31

http://www.ers.dol.govt.nz/holidays_act_2003/dates/2006_9_print.html

Has the full list for the next three years.

[Blakie]

hi Fitchick

It is currently around 15 working days plus Bank Holidays, although some firms give 20 working days + BH's.

However, in April this year it will all be going up to 20 working days + BH's as in the UK.

Although I believe some firms in the UK now grant 25 working days plus Bank Holidays. My old firm did this - after I left!

Hope this helps.

[TFR]

thanks for the info Wiki - very useful, cheers

[Fitchick]

Thanks for replying so quickly everyone!
The info is much appreciated :nice1

[sarahw]

Also the majority of companies operate on an acrual basis with holiday - so you can't take the hols unless you've already worked & earnt them - OH had to work a year before he was able to take a substantial holiday...

Some companies will let you take hols before you earn them but it isn't so easily accepted as in the UK where you get your annual leave allowance & you can take it whenever you like, whether you've acrued it or not.

Also some companies have compulsory shut-downs at Xmas of 2 or 3 weeks. OH would have had to get special permission if he had wanted to go back to work before the 8th Jan & some companies were shut a week longer.

[Oregonkiwi]

Just to add to what Sarah said about Xmas - if the company shuts down, then you HAVE to use your annual leave then.

as an example - My office closed from Dec 22 to Jan 8. Since I'd only just started working there a month earlier, I didn't have any annual leave, so I took 3 days (Dec 27, 28, 29) leave "in advance", and arranged to go back to work on Jan 3.

[Trigirl]

i get 4 weeks and have the option to "buy" another one. plus 11 days BH, plus 3 days "christmas leave".

on the flip side as other people have said i'll have to take almost 2 weeks of it over christmas.