As feared, the proposed Holidays Act changes look likely to reduce both holiday and sick leave for hundreds of thousands of low paid part-time employees. Brooke Van Velden herself admits that workers who increase their regular hours overtime will lose out on annual leave. As the billions paid out to workers who were short paid in the past shows, it is a very common scenario, especially for low paid workers. Sick leave will be directly reduced for hundreds of thousands of workers. In reality most of our members are already allowed to take annual leave from day one, as employers seek to reduce leave liability on their balance sheets.