Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• Coronavirus and annual leave: New model letters to manage workers' holiday

  Date:

  5 May 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We provide three model letters to assist HR professionals with managing workers' annual leave during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The letters cover holiday requests from furloughed workers and managing annual leave for employees still working.

• How should employers deal with bank holidays that fall within a period of furlough leave?

  Type:

  FAQs

• HR and coronavirus survey: Four weeks into lockdown

  Date:

  16 April 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  With the first frantic days of lockdown behind us, XpertHR asked HR practitioners about the challenges facing them and their organisations as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues.

• Annual leave and furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

  Date:

  6 April 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With HR now grappling with the question of how furloughing under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme impacts on employees' ability to take - and their employer's ability to require them to take - annual leave, consultant editor Darren Newman examines the relevant issues.

• Letter responding to an employee who has requested to cancel or rearrange their holiday

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on new rules on holiday carry-over in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• Holiday policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on new rules on holiday carry-over in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• Form for an employee to request to carry over holiday

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on new rules on holiday carry-over in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• Letter declining holiday request

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on new rules on holiday carry-over in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• How to manage bank holidays

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect that the holiday pay reference period has changed for workers without normal working hours, effective from 6 April 2020.

• April 2020: Employment law changes

  Date:

  3 April 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We round up our key content on April employment law changes.