Annual leave and holiday pay

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• Bank and public holidays 2020 (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  XpertHR Quick Reference - statutory bank holidays 2020 (England and Wales).

• Bank and public holidays 2020 (Northern Ireland)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  XpertHR Quick Reference - statutory bank holidays 2020 (Northern Ireland).

• Bank and public holidays 2020 (Scotland)

  Type:

  Quick reference

  XpertHR Quick Reference - statutory bank holidays 2020 (Scotland).

• More than a million employees not taking holiday at risk of burnout

  Date:

  27 July 2018

  Type:

  News

  One in 12 workers are not receiving their full holiday entitlement, according to the TUC.

• Ambulance workers' holiday pay must include "regular and settled" voluntary overtime

  Date:

  12 July 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Flowers and others v East of England Ambulance Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that voluntary overtime must be included in the calculation of holiday pay for ambulance workers with a pattern of voluntary overtime that is sufficiently regular and settled.

• UK employees fail to use holiday entitlement

  Date:

  25 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  Two in five UK employees (40%) took a maximum of just half of their annual leave entitlement during the past holiday year, according to the results of a survey by Glassdoor.

• Absence record form

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Annual leave: Worker entitled to leave accrued over full 13-year period he worked for company

  Date:

  20 March 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In The Sash Window Workshop Ltd and another v King [2018] IRLR 142 ECJ, the ECJ held that the right to paid annual leave of a "worker" who was treated as a self-employed, commission-only salesman could accumulate over an unlimited period, and that the worker was entitled to claim the accrued holiday pay on termination.

• Consultation on increasing transparency in the labour market

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on the recommendations in the "Taylor review of modern working practices" for achieving greater transparency and clarity between workers and employers in the labour market.

• Holiday pay: Payment for voluntary overtime normally worked is part of "normal remuneration"

  Date:

  31 December 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts [2017] IRLR 870 EAT, the EAT held that payments for regularly worked voluntary overtime are part of a worker's "normal remuneration" for the purposes of calculating a week's pay in respect of a worker's holiday pay entitlement.