Holiday Entitlement & Annual Leave

Holidays are a matter of contract between the employer and the employee. However there are minumum legal requirements.

Currently the minimum annual holiday entitlement is 20 days (including Bank Holidays). This is set to increase to 28 days as a result of the Working Time Regulations 2007. The change will be introduced in two stages.

The allowance was increased to 24 days from October 2007 and then increased to 28 days from April 2008.

4 weeks holiday is pro-rata for part time workers.

Whether an employee can carry forward unused holidays, receive payments for usused holidays, take time off unpaid, receive extra payment and/or extra time off for working on a bank holiday, etc are matters that should be covered in the conditions of employment.

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