Sentence examples for of working holidays from inspiring English sources

Part of the pleasure of working holidays is that you stay in places like Stackpole, which were once available only for the aristocratic few.

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· To mark the 40th anniversary of working holidays, the National Trust is hosting a Megabash next weekend October 5-77) when hundreds of people will join the Trust's countryside teams in rural Surrey and West Sussex to help clear holly and control birch and pine.

Having been raised in a working class family, with a mom who worked retail, and a dad who often worked opposite hours so that I was never alone -- I appreciate the reality of working holidays.

A tax-free threshold of A$20,000 on the earnings of working holiday-makers will be axed.

A two-year national inquiry into the conditions of working holiday visa holders has confirmed recent reports that some are being taken advantage of.

The group will have been in Australia for two years next March, having qualified for a second year of working holiday visa after working for 88 days on the farms.

Discouraged by a lack of opportunities on her home turf, she shifted 6,000 miles west to California, on a kind of working holiday that ended up being something of a rude awakening.

"The advantage of working holiday makers of course is that they're people traveling here for a set period of time, so they allow us to meet the short-term needs of the employment market, which are being affected by things like the staggering, vacuuming power that the mining industry has in terms of employees," he said in an interview.

"The review of working holiday visas is considering this issue alongside a broad range of related issues to ensure that policies supporting the seasonal and temporary labour market protect vulnerable workers and keep Australia globally competitive into the future," Hartsuyker said.

Several years ago, when I was desperately searching for opportunities to work abroad, I missed the whole concept of working holiday visas entirely.