Holidays are not a perk but a statutory right and since April the statutory minimum holiday allowance has increased.
Despite the oil crisis and minimum holiday prices being set by the Board of Trade, Lunn Poly sold 15-day beach holidays in Arenal, Majorca, by air from Luton for £43.
Rooms are $140 to $180 a night with a two-night minimum on holiday weekends, breakfast included (Route 41, 413-274-6118; www.williamsvilleinn.com).
A denial of rights at work, including the minimum wage, holiday and sick pay, are significant causes of poverty, campaigners say.
It says that since European laws guaranteed minimum paid holiday rights in 1998, more than 7 million workers have gained on average 13 days more paid annual leave.
There needs to be proper enforcement of rights such as the minimum wage, holiday rights and health and safety, not the current hotch-potch of agencies dealing with different issues with inadequate powers and resources.
"We are arguing that they are workers... Workers have fewer rights than employees, but are entitled to the national minimum wage, holiday pay, the right not to be discriminated against and the right not to have deductions made from their salary," she said.
Lawyers for two former drivers who last week won an employment tribunal judgment that they were in fact employed as workers and should therefore benefit from the minimum wage, holiday pay and sick pay, said they were preparing to lodge multiple new cases with the same court.
Be careful, or the 2009 required minimum distribution holiday could cost your family dearly.
