Depends which company you work for in England, last company was 20 days holiday no sick pay and annual shutdown of 10 working days, present company 25 days holiday and full sick pay for 13 weeks no annual shutdown only trouble is the company is so busy that I've only been able to take 5 days off so far to date, usually we have to take holiday when it suits the company, which means almost never when you want it, several times I've had to negotiate either being paid for unused holiday or losing some and carrying over some. I usually enjoyed more holidays with the company that offered less.