With a brand new year comes a new lot of annual leave for many, and there's a clever hack that could see employees get even more time off by maximising their holiday allowance.
This year will see an extra bank holiday for the King's coronation, and some savvy workers will be able to get a huge 48 days away from work in 2023, using just 19 holiday days.
As previously reported, similar tricks have been concocted in other years, but 2023's extra bank holiday means one chunk of leave comprises a whole ten days off in one go, using just four days' holidays.
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However, this only applies for people who work Monday to Friday, and are given bank holidays off as standard.
Here is a full list of 19 dates to book in 2023 if you want to have 48 days off in total:
April
As Friday, April 7 (Good Friday), and Monday, April 10 (Easter Monday), are bank holidays, if you book the four days prior to Good Friday (April 3-6) off it means you're getting a huge 10 days away from the workplace.
May
With May 1 a bank holiday, your time off starts on Saturday, April 29. The following day is a Sunday, with the Monday (May 1) a bank holiday. So you only need to actually take off Tuesday-Friday, May 2-5, and then you should also be off work on the Saturday, Sunday and following Monday (May 8), for the King's coronation.
This is another 10 days off in exchange for four days' leave. And with yet another bank holiday on May 29, you can bag another nine days off for just four days of holiday allowance. Simply book Tuesday, May 30, to Friday, June 2, off as leave.
August
The next bank holiday falls on Monday, August 28. Book four dates off here for another nine days out of work. These are Tuesday, August 29, to Friday, September 1.
December
December's bank holidays for 2023 fall on Monday, December 25 (Christmas Day) and Tuesday, December 26 (Boxing Day). You can turn this into ten days off by booking Wednesday, December 27, Thursday, December 28, and Friday, December 29.
This is because the two days before Christmas fall on a weekend, as do December 30 and 31, and January 1, 2024, is also a bank holiday.
And there you have it, a huge 48 days off work for just 19 days of annual leave.
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