holiday entitlement

Make sure staff take their holiday entitlement - and take your own.

Holiday entitlement differs slightly according to job level, age and length of service.

It is sometimes easier to calculate holiday entitlement as shifts.

This guide shows you how to calculate a worker's holiday entitlement and pay.

You must set out an employee's paid holiday entitlement in their written statement of employment.

Your workers are entitled to regular rest periods between working days - in addition to any holiday entitlement.

The statutory holiday entitlement is excluded from the average working week calculations.

Try talking to your employer about flexible working arrangements for the day, and check whether you have any holiday entitlement.

Calculate your employees' holiday entitlement A worker is entitled to 5.6 weeks paid annual leave.

Thus, one could consider such factors as hours, sick pay, pension schemes and holiday entitlements.

The holiday entitlement of 5.6 weeks is equivalent to 12.07 per cent of hours worked over a year.

Why is Britain the only country in Europe with no right to a minimum holiday entitlement?

The minimum holiday entitlement is now 28 days per year but that includes Public Holidays.

Encourage your employees to have regular health checks and to use their full holiday entitlement to help reduce stress.

The second factor is of is the whole question of holiday entitlements.

Employees continue to accrue their statutory paid holiday entitlement while they are on parental leave.

If you pay a worker on a daily basis, you can also work out their outstanding holiday entitlement in days.

An employee continues to accrue their statutory paid holiday entitlement during parental leave.

You should also note that it's unlawful to prevent a worker taking their statutory paid holiday entitlement.

Whether or not they accrue any contractual holiday entitlement depends on their contract of employment.

A worker's statutory paid holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks (28 days for a worker working a five-day week).

Their employment terms and conditions, for example pension contributions and holiday entitlement, are protected.

The following types of worker do not have the right to benefit from the minimum paid holiday entitlement:

Holiday entitlements had also become more generous.

'Staff in your division should be encouraged to take their full holiday entitlement.