Holiday Pay

[barb1314]

My husband works 2 - 3 nights in a restaurant as a chef and has never received any holiday pay.He does this in addition to his full time job and is paying all his tax and national insurance. He questioned this last week and was told that he is entitled to it but only from the start of this financial year. He worked there all last year from April and has therefore lost out on a whole years hol pay. Does anyone know where he stands or is it his fault he didn't ask? I feel he has been ripped off. Thanks for any advice anyone can give.

[factor-fiction]

Under the working time directive (or something like that) he is entitled to a minimum number of holidays, and it certainly isn't reasonable to make him wait a year. Did he actually take unpaid holidays in his first year or did he have nn holidays at all? He should start by going to citizens advice bureau - or see whether dzug, ethel or buildersmate respond on Answerbank

[barb1314]

I found out today after speaking to the accountant where I work that holiday pay is a legal requirement (4 times the hours a week you work) but there is no legal obligation to transfer holidays from one financial year to another. So,they have been very naughty but I think he's at fault too for not questioning it when he took hols and didn't get any pay. He also has no contract which is another legal requirement. Oh well seems the big boys get away with it once again!