The simple answer is ‘yes’. Employees engaged on zero-hours contracts have the same legal protections as more traditional full-time employees and are entitled to paid annual leave during employment. Zero-hours workers are also entitled to paid leave upon termination of employment, should there be any accrued leave that hasn’t been taken. Zero-hours workers continue to…
Statutory entitlement for full-time employees is 28 days’ paid annual leave. Calculating for part time employees can be a more involved… To explain better, a part-time employee is pro-rated to a full-time employee’s entitlement and is based around their working week. There are normally eight specified bank holidays each year To calculate holiday entitlement for…
Under the Working Time Regulations 1998, the 5.6-week holiday entitlement cannot be replaced by a payment in lieu, excepting where employment is terminated. If you have any further questions on the subject matter then please contact Karen Scott on 07762 629 448 or get in touch by clicking here. Disclaimer: While every effort is made to…
Workers are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks’ paid annual holiday (i.e. 28 days for a worker who works five days a week). Under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833), workers have the legal right to a minimum of four weeks’ paid holiday. Regulation 13A – brought into force by the Working Time…
When do employers need to include overtime in holiday pay? Holiday pay must be calculated on the basis of an employee’s normal pay. Where an employee normally works overtime, this should be included in the calculation of their holiday pay. Overtime that the employer is contractually obliged to offer and that employees are required to…
Most bank holidays fall on a Monday or Friday, so part-time employees who do not work on these days could be disadvantaged with fewer days off compared with full-time employees.To ensure that all employees have at least the statutory minimum annual leave entitlement and that part-time employees are not treated less favourably than full-time employees,…