Holiday Pay

[Priesty]

How many hours per week do you have to work before you are entitled to holiday pay?

[acw]

Depends on the company.  Some don't offer it (if you work for an agency and you're not technically an employee).

This is from the acas website - http://www.acas.org.uk/rights/pay.html#4

  Holiday pay
Most workers - whether part-time or full-time - are entitled to four weeks' paid annual leave.

A week's leave should allow workers to be away from work for a week - ie it should be the same amount of time as the working week. If a worker does a five-day week, he or she is entitled to 20 days leave. If he or she does a three-day week, the entitlement is 12 days leave.

There is no statutory right to have bank holidays off as paid leave. They may be part of the four weeks leave - some employment contracts deal with bank holidays separately. Workers must give the employer notice that they want to take leave.

Employers can set the times that workers take their leave, for example for a Christmas shutdown.

If a worker's employment ends, he or she has a right to be paid for the leave time due and not taken.

Sorry to be so vague. 

[ianess]

acw.......that answer was spot-on. Absolutely nothing vague about it. Holiday entitlement starts to build up from day one.

[acw]

Thanks ianess! :-)  I work for an agency, so I don't get holiday pay.  But as I'm a student it's not SUCH a worry for me..... yet!

Good luck Priesty! :-)