Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• 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.

• Holiday policy

  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.

• Annual leave survey 2019

  Date:

  22 May 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR research looks at employers' provision of annual leave and holiday pay.

• Calculating holiday entitlement for term-time workers: is there a simple answer?

  Date:

  26 April 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  In light of new guidance for local government employers on term-time workers, consultant editor Darren Newman looks for a simple way to calculate the holiday entitlement of employees who work only during school terms.

• Employment law manual: Holiday and holiday pay section restructured

  Date:

  22 February 2019

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We have restructured and revised our Holiday and holiday pay section of the Employment law manual, to provide a more accessible overview for employers and HR professionals.

• Podcast: Key employment cases for 2019

  Date:

  11 January 2019

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Which employment cases will have the biggest impact on HR in 2019? We assess the likely impact on employers of upcoming cases on: the national minimum wage, shared parental leave, holiday pay, restrictive covenants, collective bargaining, covert CCTV, and employment status.