Summer holidays
Employees' annual leave arrangements may present problems such as competing holiday requests, employees becoming sick while on holiday or failing to return from a holiday, on time or at all. We round up our content that will help employers manage issues around employees' holidays.
Employment law manual
FAQs
- What is the minimum statutory provision for paid holiday?
- What happens if the employer fails to comply with the Working Time Regulations 1998?
- Can workers take holiday whenever they like?
- Can an employer refuse holiday requests during a particular period?
- Can an employer require its employees to take holiday at a particular time?
- If an employee fails to return from a holiday abroad and claims that this is due to illness, must the employer treat a medical certificate sent from another country as evidence of incapacity?
- Will an employee accrue holiday during his or her notice period?
- Can an employee be required to use up outstanding holiday entitlement during his or her notice period?
- Can an employer refuse a request for annual leave during an employee's notice period?
- Can unused statutory annual holiday be carried forward to the next holiday year?
- Can unused statutory annual holiday be replaced by a payment in lieu?
- Should an employer insist that holiday is taken?
Good practice manual
How to
- How to deal effectively with sickness that occurs during or just before a period of holiday
- How to deal with an employee who returns late from holiday
- How to deal with an employee who goes ahead with a holiday when annual leave has not been authorised
Law reports
- Podlasiak v Edinburgh Woollen Mill Ltd ET/2701291/2013
- Sood Enterprises Ltd v Healy [2013] IRLR 865 EAT
- The Sash Window Workshop Ltd and another v King [2015] IRLR 348 EAT
Line manager briefings
Policies and documents
- Holiday policy
- Holiday entitlement contract clause
- Holiday entitlement on long-term sickness absence policy
- Policy and procedure on sickness occurring during or just before a period of holiday
- Contract clause on sickness absence immediately before or after holiday
- Contract clause on employees falling sick during holiday
- Holiday approval and carry over contract clause
- Form for an employee to request to carry over holiday
- Letter confirming an employee's entitlement to accrue holiday for a special trip
- Policy on buying and selling holiday
- Letter declining holiday request
- Letter designating holiday for an employee who has not taken his or her full entitlement
- Letter to employee who has failed to return from holiday
Survey analysis and Benchmarking
News
Quick reference
- Bank and public holidays (England and Wales)
- Bank and public holidays (Northern Ireland)
- Bank and public holidays (Scotland)
Tasks
- Benchmark annual leave allocation
- Manage the holiday entitlement of an employee going on maternity leave
- Calculate the accrued annual leave of a worker in the first year of employment
- Establish a policy on holiday accrued during sickness absence
- Establish a policy on sickness occurring during or just before a period of holiday
- Establish a policy on buying and selling annual leave
- Respond to a request from an employee to cancel a period of booked annual leave
- Cancel an employee's period of booked annual leave
- Turn down an annual leave request
- Require an employee to take annual leave
- Manage a workaholic employee
Worked examples
- Holiday notice requirements worked examples
- Holiday accrual in first year of employment worked examples