Holidays
The one thing you can be sure of is that every employee (and worker) will want to book and take their holiday. Holidays needs to be managed and planned to ensure you have sufficient cover. You need simple but effective systems to ensure holidays in the organisation are managed correctly and effectively.
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Every employee and worker is entitled to paid holiday. The minimum statutory holiday entitlement is currently 5.6 weeks or 28 days (or 20 days plus 8 bank holidays if you work five days or more). Holiday is pro-rata for part-time employees.
You need to have clear rules around holidays; including how holidays are requested and authorised, if any holiday is allocated (e.g. bank holidays, Christmas shutdown etc) and rules around carrying forward holiday etc. Our guidance recommends rules for each of these and many other areas.
You also need to be clear about holiday pay. This needs to take into consideration any 'regular' payments an employee is paid, for example, regular overtime.
Calculating holidays for full time workers is quite straightforward. But how do you calculate holiday for part time staff, or those with no fixed contracted hours, or those working on shift patterns? Our guidance on calculating holiday will take you through different situations step-by-step.
