Retained Firefighters are paid a monthly retaining fee, plus drill night attendance, emergency call out fees, as well as annual holiday leave.
Agency staff have basic employment rights, such as the minimum wage, and are subject to the Work Time Regulations which provide for 20 days basic holiday and eight days bank holiday leave.
Whether you're flying to visit your family, catching a train to meet up with a long-distance love or celebrating New Year's Eve on a warm-weather cruise with friends, ever present travel disruptions over the holiday season may leave you needing a place to stay at the last-minute.
Consultants have told the BBC there are also concerns over staffing the emergency department, covering holiday and sick leave, and the fact that the rest of the hospital system does not follow a seven-day working pattern shift, which has a knock on effect especially at the weekends.
And what I wanted to do was leave the summer holiday, publish it in September when the schools are back and then really start a thorough consultation.
Congressional leaders leave Friday for the Christmas holiday, but they can come back Dec. 27 and continue to discuss alternatives.
Then the Indian government started encouraging its employees to travel to the islands on holiday, and even offered them extra leave to visit the islands.
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He said he worked through much of the school holiday period and it was preferable to leave the school at a time when there were other staff around to run it.
"These sorts of strikes never achieve anything apart from damage - damage to business, damage to jobs, damage to the interests of tourists who want to come to visit Britain, or people who want to leave Britain and have a holiday overseas, " he said.
Travelscope Holiday's cruise on the MV Van Gogh, due to leave Falmouth on 4 January, was under threat after the firm went into administration.
Each new public employee can count on 21 days of paid holiday, 14 public holidays on which he gets paid, and 21 days of paid sick leave.
As you might recall, it was on that national holiday (when the markets were closed) that Apple (AAPL) announced that Steve would take another medical leave from the company.
The al-Hilli family had arrived on holiday at the nearby Le Solitaire du Lac campsite in Saint-Jorioz on Monday and had been due to leave at the end of the week.
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