Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• Bank and public holidays 2021 (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  XpertHR Quick Reference - statutory bank holidays 2021 (England and Wales).

• Bank and public holidays 2021 (Scotland)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  XpertHR Quick Reference - statutory bank holidays 2021 (Scotland).

• Bank and public holidays 2021 (Northern Ireland)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  XpertHR Quick Reference - statutory bank holidays 2021 (Northern Ireland).

• Bank and public holidays 2020 (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect that the May bank holiday has been moved to Friday 8 May, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

• Bank and public holidays 2020 (Northern Ireland)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect that the May bank holiday has been moved to Friday 8 May, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

• Bank and public holidays 2020 (Scotland)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect that the May bank holiday has been moved to Friday 8 May, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

• Fixed-term employee's holiday entitlement contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on East of England Ambulance Trust v Flowers, in which the Court of Appeal held that the calculation of holiday pay should include voluntary overtime.

• How should an employer compute a week's pay in relation to an employee's holiday pay entitlement?

  Type:

  FAQs

• When does overtime have to be included in holiday pay?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Court of Appeal rules that voluntary overtime must be included in holiday pay

  Date:

  11 June 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In East of England Ambulance NHS Trust v Flowers and others, the Court of Appeal held that ambulance workers are contractually entitled to have voluntary overtime included in the calculation of their holiday pay and, under the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC), to have it included where it is sufficiently regular and settled.