The government is set to increase the amount of holiday time for workers in the UK. From October, the annual holiday entitlement will be 24 days, a rise of four days from the current level. Then in autumn 2008, it will rise again to 28 days annual holiday leave. Britain will still have one of the smallest holiday allowances in Europe, but the gap will be substantially narrowed. In France workers receive 36 days of holiday annually, Italians are entitled to 32 and Germans to 29. Britain however, has a lower productivity rate than these countries and the government hopes that more holiday time will encourage employees, including graduates, to work harder in between. Ranjit Dhindsa, a law specialist with Reed Smith Richards Butler, told the Birmingham Post: "We are known for having the longest hours and the lowest productivity in Europe." "We have never embraced the social employment legislation in the same way that the Europeans have. Instead we tend to look towards America, and the way they do things," she elaborated. Some concern has been expressed that the issue could be complicated because companies will be half-way through a holiday year when the new measure is implemented.
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