Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Right to carry over statutory annual leave for two years introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

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

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

  Date:

  30 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  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.

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• Does annual leave accrue during a period of lay-off or furlough?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Potential absence and attendance scenarios and how to deal with them

  Date:

  19 March 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  We set out some possible scenarios related to absence and attendance that HR professionals may face during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and explain how they could tackle them. Additional scenarios (added on 19 March) now cover an employee being unable to work because their child's school has closed or an elderly relative has fallen ill, and an employee due to return to work has been stranded abroad.