Holiday Entitlement

[LittleMissxx]

how much holiday entitlement should you have ?? is there a minimum and the rest at the discretion of the company ??

[smeagol]

i think the minimum holiday entitlement is 20 days and the rest is at the discretion of your employer.

[Ethel]

Yes, 20 days including bank and public holidays, for a full time employee.

This is going to change to 20 days plus bank holidays - making 28 days in total. It is still in the proposal stage, but I believe it will become law within the next two years or so.

http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2007/02 /06/39142/statutory-holiday-entitlement.html

[Buenchico]

The current statutory minimum holiday entitlement is four times the number of days worked (excluding overtime) each week. So, as Smeagol suggests, someone working a 5 day week is legally entitled to a total of 20 days paid holiday per year.

It should be noted that the minimum holiday entitlement includes any days which are pre-determined by the employer, such as closures for bank holidays. Somebody working a 5 day week (Monday to Friday), for a firm which closes on all bank holidays, will (this year) be entitled to the 8 public holidays off, plus 12 further days to be agreed with the employer. That's because Christmas Day and Boxing Day both occur during the normal working week (i.e. on a Tuesday and Wednesday) this year. In year's where either Christmas Day or Boxing Day fall at a weekend, there will be 13 days to be agreed with the employer. If Christmas Day is on a Saturday, there will be 14 days to be agreed with the employer, because only 6 public holidays occur during the normal working week.

At the last election, the Labour Party manifesto included a commitment to increase the annual holiday entitlement to effectively add public holidays to the existing entitlement, rather than having them included within it. Proposals have now been put forward, giving employees a statutory holiday entitlement calculated as 5.6 times the number of days worked each week. So, somebody working a 5 day week would then be entitled to a total of 28 days paid holiday per year. As now, this would include any days when the firm was closed (such as public holidays) but, also as now, would not create any right to take the day off (or to receive extra pay) on a bank holiday.

Those proposals include a 'cap' of 28 days paid holiday per year, so somebody working 6 days per week wouldn't have any greater holiday entitlement than a person who only works 5 days per week. No date has been announced for the introduction of these