We were all left a tad confused on Thursday after an official Brexit paper promised we’d be getting 14 weeks of paid holiday a year once we'd left the EU.
The government's Brexit white paper released yesterday suggested that Britons would get almost triple the amount of annual leave than we do now - sparking doubts about how much care was taken to draw up the document. An eagle-eyed Twitter user also spotted that the time-stamped date on the page was 4:26am, suggesting it was all a bit of a late-night, last-minute job.
Currently, most people who work five days a week are entitled to 28 days annual leave - that’s around 5.6 weeks in total. But the error led to Remain voters being really into leaving the EU for a bit:
Actually threatening legal action:
And the struggle was real for all the part-timers and freelancers when they realised they weren't covered:
The white paper was drawn up to reassure British workers that their rights would not be under threat when leaving the European Union.
But before you start searching for your long-haul escapes, the error was corrected overnight, meaning it's definitely not a thing sob.
Total incompetence by Brexit Department as table in Brexit paper is "corrected" overnight. Here are the 2 versions: pic.twitter.com/lg33KzVnb3
— David Lock QC (@DavidLockQC) 3 February 2017
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.