While we're cutting pay, union-busting, and and outsourcing...

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Britain's taking another route:

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=544726&host=3&dir=62

Millions of workers will be guaranteed an extra eight days paid holiday a year under a peace deal hammered out between the Labour leadership and the trade unions.

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he concessions include ending the practice under which employers can count bank holidays towards the minimum holiday entitlement of 20 days a year.

The Government agreed to drop its opposition to a European Union directive which seeks to ensure that agency and temporary workers enjoy similar rights as permanent employees. It accepted for the first time that workers who are transferred en masse to new employers would have their pension rights protected.

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