Some employers have taken this to include any bank holiday entitlement. The Government intends to provide workers with the equivalent of four weeks plus bank holidays to be phased in over the next couple of years. For someone who works a five day week this would in due course mean 28 days paid holiday a year. There is no requirement on the employee to insist on taking the entitlement on the bank holidays themselves and they can be required to work them and be given time off at some other point.

So for those that already receive four weeks holiday plus bank holidays, there will be no physical change. For those that don't they will see an increase of an additional four days as from 1 October 2007 and an increase of a further four days anticipated to be introduced in April 2009.

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