It’s not always good news when employers have to make use of XpertHR’s policies and documents section, with our templates on redundancy, discipline and grievance regularly proving to be the most popular. But employers that are required to take action to comply with the increase in the statutory minimum holiday entitlement from 1 October 2007 can use our new model letters to be the bearer of some rare glad tidings: more holiday for workers!
As HR professionals will know, working out the new minimum entitlement to which employees are entitled is complicated by the fact that it depends when the employer’s leave year starts. XpertHR’s model letter informing an employee of an increase in his or her holiday entitlement on 1 October 2007 [subscription required] gives examples of what to say in two of the more common situations: where the annual leave period runs from 1 January to 31 December and where it runs from 1 April to 31 March.
The changes are further complicated by provisions that:
- allow employers and employees to agree to pay in lieu of the additional holiday entitlement for a transitional period (designed to give employers the opportunity to adapt to the increase, for example by recruiting and training additional staff to cover the extra days during which workers are absent); and
- permit an arrangement whereby some or all of the additional statutory holiday entitlement can be carried over to the following leave year.
As a result, we've also produced model letters seeking agreement to pay in lieu of additional holiday entitlement from 1 October 2007 [subscription required] and seeking agreement for additional holiday entitlement from 1 October 2007 to be carried over into the following leave year [subscription required].
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