Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• Date:

  6 April 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Annual leave and furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Holiday policy

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

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for an employee to request to carry over holiday

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

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter declining holiday request

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

• Type:

  Policies and documents

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

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

• Type:

  FAQs

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

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can unused statutory annual holiday be carried forward to the next holiday year?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee cancel a period of annual leave if they are unable to go on holiday due to the coronavirus outbreak?

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Right to carry over statutory annual leave for two years introduced

  Working time rules on carrying over annual leave relaxed to support key industries during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• Date:

  30 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  Workers will be able to carry over annual leave for two years

  Workers who have not taken all of their statutory annual leave entitlement this year due to the coronavirus will be able to carry it over into the next two leave years, the Government has announced.