An employee’s holiday plans have fallen apart due to the pandemic. They’ve asked to cancel their previously booked annual leave and take this time off at a later date. Must you agree?
Published 08.04.2020
All workers are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday in each leave year. But what happens when a new employee starts work part-way through your leave year? How is their statutory holiday
entitlement calculated?
Published 30.08.2016
The Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) state that when they leave your employment, an employee is entitled to be paid in lieu of any accrued but untaken statutory minimum holiday. How is this
payment in lieu calculated?
Published 25.11.2021
An employee has booked annual leave that they’re due to take next week. For whatever reason their plans have changed and they want to cancel this time off at the last minute. Must you agree?
Published 18.05.2018
It’s been suggested that you shut down completely between Christmas and New Year to give everyone a break. If an employee doesn’t have enough holiday to cover this period, can you force them to take
unpaid leave instead?
Published 01.10.2021
A subscriber has an employee who called in sick a day before he was due to take a week’s annual leave. He’s now returned to work and wants to treat the whole period as sick leave. How should they
deal with this?
Published 24.04.2006
If you’re confused about the status of bank holidays in relation to entitlement to time off, extra pay, or their effect on different types of employee, you’re not alone. What’s the legal situation
and what should you introduce?
Published 09.03.2006
An employee who recently took a day’s sickness absence has now requested to have that day classed as annual leave. Is this possible or should their reason for absence be recorded accurately?
Published 10.03.2016
You’ve probably heard it several times before. An employee returns from holiday only to tell you that he was sick for the duration of his break. What do you do? Reinstate his holiday? Pay him SSP?
And what about other situations?
Published 08.09.2005
The Working Time Regulations allow a worker to recover pay in lieu for statutory holiday in their final year of employment. OK - but what if their contractual entitlement just happens to be far more
generous than this?
Published 14.01.2010