Annual Leave/Public Holidays
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Annual Leave/Public Holidays
I'm currently working for a Middle East Airline and am ex BA. Working twelve hour shifts 2 days/2 nites.
I get 21 days annual leave and 8.5 public holidays. HR say it's 42 days annual at recruitment but since each day is only worth 6 hours you have to burn two days leave to get one day off. Cunning eh!
It used to be 21 annual and ten public holidays but when we moved from a day system to an hours system we ended up only getting 8.5 hours for a public holiday. I seem to remember at BA getting about thirty annual and ten PH.
Question? Would anyone care to say what they are currently getting in terms of leave/public holiday with world location and possibly carrier ID? Bit of a census if you like.
I get 21 days annual leave and 8.5 public holidays. HR say it's 42 days annual at recruitment but since each day is only worth 6 hours you have to burn two days leave to get one day off. Cunning eh!
It used to be 21 annual and ten public holidays but when we moved from a day system to an hours system we ended up only getting 8.5 hours for a public holiday. I seem to remember at BA getting about thirty annual and ten PH.
Question? Would anyone care to say what they are currently getting in terms of leave/public holiday with world location and possibly carrier ID? Bit of a census if you like.
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UK suitwearing engineer, working nominal office hours (that's about 9-8, five days per week - although the contract says 35 hours).
28 days plus public holidays, although rarely do I manage to take all 28 days, since the nature of the job is that there's a fair bit nobody can/will cover.
I had an interview with Learjet last year (sadly didn't get the job as almost simultaneously Bombardier - the parent company laid 2000 people off, which rather mucked up recruitment plans) in Wichita. The arrangement there (again for salaried suitwearing engineers) was no leave for your first year, 10 days per year for the next ten, after which it slowly crept up to 20 over another 15 years I think. Hours were about 8-7. Plus public holidays.
No overtime in either job, nor my last, although the last did give time and a half in lieu for weekend and bank holiday working - not the case in the new job (although less call for it).
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28 days plus public holidays, although rarely do I manage to take all 28 days, since the nature of the job is that there's a fair bit nobody can/will cover.
I had an interview with Learjet last year (sadly didn't get the job as almost simultaneously Bombardier - the parent company laid 2000 people off, which rather mucked up recruitment plans) in Wichita. The arrangement there (again for salaried suitwearing engineers) was no leave for your first year, 10 days per year for the next ten, after which it slowly crept up to 20 over another 15 years I think. Hours were about 8-7. Plus public holidays.
No overtime in either job, nor my last, although the last did give time and a half in lieu for weekend and bank holiday working - not the case in the new job (although less call for it).
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From: Stockholm Sweden
LAE on the ramp in Sweden. 30 days holiday plus about 14 PH. I say about because PH can fall on a Sunday here. If you are working you get one, if you are off you don't. We work 7 days a fortnight but HR hasn't twigged yet that we could have less holidays (engineering is very small) so we get the lot. No paid overtime, just the odd lieu day if you work a long extra shift, but it does't happen often.
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From: England
Lae with BA 4 on 4 off 12 hour shifts - 22 days leave plus public holidays.
If you were getting 30 at BA when you left I can't imagine what shift pattern you were on.
Sounds like you're not doing too badly where you are mate.
If you were getting 30 at BA when you left I can't imagine what shift pattern you were on.
Sounds like you're not doing too badly where you are mate.
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From: The spiritual home of DeHavilland
Expat contracts here are all on the same terms - day workers get 36 working days, shift workers on 12 hour days get 24 working days, giving them broadly the same total time off. Everyone also gets 9 days PH that can be taken as they fall, or altogether in a block.
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From: Sydney
Antipodean LAME working 12 hr shifts, 2days,2nights and 5off. We get 190 hrs annual leave(about 16 shifts). We have 11 public holidays- 5 get paid out at double time and you get an extra day off for the the other 6.
