Celebrating the minimum wage with a bit more holiday!

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the minimum wage, introduced by the Labour government and opposed by many of today's Tories who claim to be on the side of working families. If you visit here you can see the dramatic difference the minimum wage makes each day.

Neatly coinciding with this year's anniversary is an increase in holiday leave for all workers in Britain. EU law already guarantees everyone 20-days paid holiday a year, however some employers were forcing people to include public holidays as part of their leave. From today, this loophole has been closed by increasing the minimum amount of leave for all full-time workers to 28 days (it's pro-rata for part-timers). So even if people must take their bank holidays as leave they will still have the equivalent of four working weeks off a year, a change which will benefit six million people.