annual holidays

Under the Holidays Act 2003 all employees are entitled to a minimum of four weeks annual holidays.

This section has information on how to calculate annual holiday entitlements and pay, and how the transition from three to four weeks annual holidays works.

• general entitlements
• moving to four weeks leave
• records employers must keep
• calculating “ordinary weekly pay” and “average weekly earnings"
• employees who take annual holidays in advance of entitlement
• when pay-as-you-go provisions can be used
• entitlements on an employees resignation or end of employment
• regular annual closedowns
• effect of unpaid leave
• employees with irregular or changing work pattern
• interface with other types of holiday and leave

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This page was last updated on: 19-Mar-2009 and is current.