{"id":1657,"date":"2018-05-15T07:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2018-05-15T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:47:14","slug":"1-in-4-irish-workers-dont-take-all-their-annual-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"1 in 4 Irish Workers Don’t Take All Their Annual Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A new survey of the Irish workforce by IrishJobs.ie<\/a> reveals that almost 4 in 10 workers (37%) didn\u2019t take their full allocation of annual leave in 2017.<\/p>\n

Just under half of the respondents took a holiday longer than two weeks last year.<\/p>\n

But even those who took a holiday found it hard to switch off\u2014a third (33%) of respondents admitting to working while on annual leave.<\/p>\n

The Organization of Working Time Act 1997 sets out a basic annual paid leave requirement of four working weeks (or 20 days) for full-time workers in Ireland.<\/p>\n

However, two-thirds (67%) of those surveyed are offered more than twenty days annual leave by their employer. Two percent of those surveyed are entitled to unlimited annual leave.<\/p>\n

37% of respondents have the option to buy additional annual leave from their employer, meaning that some Irish workers can avail of up to 30 days annual leave per year.<\/p>\n

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