The normal working week is arranged as a five-day week and gives about 39-40 hours for manual workers and 37-38 for non-manual work. Factory workers usually start at 8 a.m. and offices, shops and schools start at 9 a.m.
    Wage-earning workers are paid weekly, salary earners are paid once a month. Manual workers have 3 week holidays and professional workers (people with higher education) have usually longer holidays (a month or more). In addition to this they have "bank" or "public holidays". They are: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit-Monday, the last Monday in August or first in September, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. In each part of Britain they have one more bank holiday - the patron's day (in England it is St. George's Day on April 23, in Scotland St. Andrew's Day on November 30, in Ireland St. Patrick's Day on March 17).