Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• 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.

• Letter designating holiday for an employee who has not taken their full entitlement

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Policy on sickness occurring during or just before a period of holiday

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Holiday entitlement on long-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Form for an employee to request to carry over holiday

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Part-time worker's holiday contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Contract clause on employees falling sick during holiday

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Holiday approval and carry-over contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Workers treated as self-employed can carry over annual leave indefinitely

  Date:

  29 November 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  The European Court of Justice has held that a worker must be able to carry over unused holiday when the employer does not put that worker in a position to exercise the right to take paid annual leave.