Q 1 am a driver of a six-wheel tipper engaged on
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coal haulage work Are you able to tell me what holidays I am entitled to?
AYou are entitled to what are known as
customary holidays such as Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday (or any other day substituted for it by national proclamation), August Bank Holiday and all nationally proclaimed holidays.
In addition, you are entitled to annual holiday to be taken between May 1 and October 15 each year. The amount of holiday due to you depends on the length of the period you were employed before the start of the holiday season, namely May 1. The following list indicates the number of days due in relation to the period worked:— These figures are taken from the current Road Haulage Wages Council, order RH(94) and are the statutory minimum which your employer must allow you. He is, of course, free to allow you longer periods if, for example, a productivity agreement or other such scheme incorporates provisions for longer holidays,