Annual leave and bank holidays
It’s important to take time away from work for yourself and your family. You have options for spending time off from work during the year.
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Annual leave
Let’s start by looking at your annual leave. If you’re a full-time Mountaineer, you get 23 days’ holidays for your first three years of service. Then your entitlement goes up as follows:*
Full Years of Service Holidays Earned 0 – 3 23 days 4 – 6 25 days 7 or more 27 days *Applicable to those on Iron Mountain terms. Some colleagues may have increased annual leave entitlements where their entitlements are protected under TUPE regulations.
Directors and above receive 25 days per year, increasing to 27 days after seven years of service. Part-time Mountaineers are entitled to a pro rata entitlement.
You must use your full entitlement in the year it’s granted. You can’t carry over unused holidays into the next year.
Holiday Trading
Our Flexible Benefits programme lets you increase or decrease your annual leave entitlement by up to three days. You make this decision during Annual Enrolment.
Need more? You can buy up to three days’ holidays (in whole days/half days). If you’re a full-timer, each additional day will cost you 1/260th of your salary, which you pay on a ‘salary sacrifice’ A salary sacrifice arrangement is where you give up some of your pre-tax salary in exchange for financial, health and leisure benefits from Iron Mountain. basis. (That means it comes out of your pre-tax salary, so you save a bit on tax and NI.)
Need less? You can sell up to three days’ holidays back to the Company and get additional pay — again, 1/260th of your salary per day for full-timers, which is subject to tax and NI. There’s one rule — you can’t let your actual annual holiday drop below 20 days.
Part-Time Employees
If you’re a part-time employee, the price of time off and the minimum holiday that you must take are proportional to the number of days you’re scheduled to work. For more information, contact Global HR Service Support at 0800 2797620 or irmHR.EMEA@ironmountain.com.
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Statutory bank holidays
All employees are eligible to take bank and public holidays. If you work a reduced schedule, you’ll be entitled to bank holidays on a pro-rata basis.
Bank and public holidays differ depending on where you live.
England or Wales
New Year’s Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Early May bank holiday
Spring bank holiday
Summer bank holiday
Christmas Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Boxing Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Scotland
New Year’s Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend) and the day after
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Early May bank holiday
Spring bank holiday
Summer bank holiday
Christmas Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Boxing Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Nothern Ireland
New Year’s Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
St. Patrick’s Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Early May bank holiday
Spring bank holiday
Summer bank holiday
Battle of the Boyne, or Orangemen’s Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Christmas Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
Boxing Day (or a substitute if this falls on a weekend)
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Contacts
Iron Mountain Flexible Benefits Helpline
Administration and general information
01252 767 058 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Global HR Service Support
Administration and general information