Has the new employment law on holidays been decided yet? I just get 17 days a year and have to take 3 at Xmas.

If you're in the U.K. you are legally entitled to 21 days holliday, but the company doesn't actually have to pay you for all of them.You should read an up to date copy of the Working Time Regulations as there are different rules for different industries, Also the amount of paid holliday usually varies depending on how many hours you usually work.

You get 17 days a year and you are complaining?

i get 20 days 3 are floating days 10 are proper holidays and i have to use the other 7 for xmas cause the work shuts down

17 days a year is crap, you should change jobs.

You must be from Europe ... here in the US you only get 17 days of vacation after working at a place for years - and that's if it's a place that offers vacation as a fringe benefit, some of them don't.

Depends on which country you're in. Here in the UK the law is that you have to be given 4 weeks holiday a year. So for example if you work Mon-Fri, ie a 5 day week you are entitled to 20 days holiday. However, the tricky bit is that if you work for a company that closes on bank holidays then they can force you to take the bank holiday's as part of your 20 days - ie you'd get 9 days off for bank holidays then be allowed a further 11 days.

Consider yourself lucky. In the USA there is no legal obligation to give you any paid holidays. Typically, employers let you have only 10 days there.

Did not know there was a new law unless you are not on about England we have an age law.