The coronavirus pandemic has thwarted a lot of staff holiday plans for 2020. If any workers haven’t been taking their annual leave, what’s the legal position if, towards the end of your holiday year,
they request to sell some of it back to you?
Published 03.11.2020
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has considered whether it’s acceptable to cap a zero hours, term-time only worker’s holiday pay at 12.07% of annual earnings. What was its decision and what are
the implications if you employ irregular hours workers?
Published 23.04.2018
If your holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March and you provide “20 days’ paid annual leave plus bank holidays”, you could have a problem in 2018/19. What’s the issue?
Published 15.11.2017
The Supreme Court has held that annual leave for part-year workers engaged on permanent contracts isn’t subject to a pro rata reduction. What’s this mean?
Published 06.09.2022
There have been many questions raised by employers about whether employees can request or be required to take their annual leave, including bank holidays, during furlough. What’s the position?
Published 07.05.2020
Where a new worker starts employment part-way through your holiday year, they have a pro rata statutory holiday entitlement for the remainder of that holiday year. How do you calculate that and what
special rules apply here?
Published 28.02.2020
To help some employees with the rising cost of living, one option is to put in place a policy on buying and selling annual leave. What provisions should you include?
Published 06.09.2022
The government is consulting on proposals to pro rata annual leave entitlement for part-year workers based on the annual hours they work. How does it plan to do this?
Published 25.01.2023
With the summer holiday season now approaching, you might want to consider whether to take steps to control when and how annual leave can be taken by your workers. What controls could you usefully
put in place?
Published 04.05.2023
When a worker leaves your employment, they are entitled to be paid in lieu of their accrued but untaken statutory annual leave entitlement. How do you calculate that, and what happens if they’ve
already taken more than they’ve accrued?
Published 03.06.2021