Annual leave and holiday pay

New and updated

• Date:

  16 May 2016

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Annual leave: 2016 survey of employer practice

  This XpertHR survey on annual leave arrangements covers responses from 365 employers and details the median basic holiday entitlement, plus the formulas used by employers to calculate holiday pay.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Policy on buying and selling holiday

  A model policy to allow employees to buy and sell holiday.

• Date:

  30 March 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Holiday pay: Working Time Regulations require commission payments to count in holiday pay calculation

  In Lock and another v British Gas Trading Ltd (No.2) [2016] IRLR 316 EAT, the EAT held that the domestic Working Time Regulations 1998 are capable of being interpreted in a manner consistent with the requirements of EU law, which include the requirement to factor results-based commission payments into the calculation of holiday pay.

• Date:

  22 February 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Holiday pay: working time legislation can be interpreted to include commission, confirms EAT

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has refused to interfere with the tribunal decision that the Working Time Regulations 1998 can be interpreted to require employers to include a worker's commission in the calculation of his or her holiday pay.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee take annual leave while on long-term sickness absence?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer cancel an employee's booked period of annual leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does an employer have to agree to an employee's request to cancel a booked period of annual leave?

• Date:

  30 September 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Working time: Voluntary overtime should have counted towards holiday pay

  In Patterson v Castlereagh Borough Council [2015] IRLR 721 NICA, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal held that a Northern Ireland industrial tribunal had erred in excluding voluntary overtime from the calculation of the claimant's outstanding holiday pay

• Type:

  Good practice manual

  Supporting the effective management of annual leave

  Good practice guidance discussing how to give employees more control over their annual leave to increase employee engagement, and improve business efficacy by managing the holiday process.

• Date:

  16 July 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Carry-forward of annual leave not taken during sick leave subject to a time limit

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that where an employee chooses not to take statutory annual leave during sick leave, he or she can carry forward the untaken annual leave for up to 18 months from the end of the leave year in which the leave arises.