Holiday entitlement

[BAJR Host]

You have this right from your first day of employment. However, this does not mean you can take four weeks’ paid leave on your first day of work. The law says how your paid holiday builds up in your first year of work.
The amount of leave you can take builds up monthly in advance at the rate of one twelfth of your yearly leave each month. If this does not give you an exact number of days leave, your leave is rounded up to the nearest half day. Your employer will deduct any leave you have already taken from the leave you have built up.

For example, if you work full time and have worked for three months, you will have built up five days' leave. Your annual leave is four weeks x five days = 20 days. Your leave after three months is three twelfths of this, because you have worked for three of the twelve months in the year. Three twelfths of 20 is five, so you have built up five days' annual leave.
Some employers and employment agencies may say that your hourly rate of pay includes an amount for holiday pay, and that they expect you to save this part of your pay to cover your holidays. This is known as 'rolled up' holiday pay.

Rolled up holiday pay is against the law.

Thats the basics


hers the BAJR bit

and you can find it

Here:

When adding a job you are told "20 days annual leave EXCLUDING statutory holidays"

In the pdf distributed to every contractor -

Holidays
For each month worked the employee is entitled to 1.666667 days holiday… in addition, they also receive any bank & public holidays that fall into the employment period. If it is not possible to take any of these holidays during short contracts, the time in lieu is paid at full rate.

So as I said.... not sure... and now I have had to look (which i should ahev done in the first place - but I am sucha lazy sod!)

So there are plenty places on BAJR - where you can find out what the requirements are...

jsut had this email from a client - who realised that they had not done the holiday bit as per required... and did not want to be seen as 'evil employer' so they found it...

So... please... I apologise for being lazy ...

as you can see... VoR has nothing to fear... as thats what I have already said... and Dr Pete .. I will have to work on makingit all more accesible.. and I hope one day... not having to have any requirements at all... let market forces sort the wheat from the chaff of employers

- can I go to sleep now!

pps... a new revamped BAJR is coming... soon after I finish the Past Horizons site.



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

[the invisible man]

I would add that the legal minimum is just that, a minimum, and not necessarily a standard. In my experience, outside archaeology, if for example you started a new job in April but has already booked a fortnight in the Dordogne in July, it would be customary for the employer to honour existing holiday commitments - at least in the professions. Employers are not always ogres out to screw the last drop from their employees - and indeed vice versa. (But some are of course.)

You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

[oldgirl]

Just had an email through from an employment mentoring service. They say the following:
The legal minimum annual holiday entitlement, currently four weeks, will increase to 4.8 weeks from 1st October 2007, the Government has confirmed. This will give employees who work 5 days a week a minimum annual holiday entitlement of 24 days.
A further increase, to 5.6 weeks or 28 days, has been deferred until April 2009.

Key Points
• Minimum annual holiday entitlement increases to 4.8 weeks for all workers from 1st October 2007;
• Increase is pro-rata for part time workers;
• Employees DO NOT have the right to take bank or public holidays off, unless their contract of employment says so;
• Employees can receive a payment in lieu for the additional 0.8 week (4 days') holiday. This concession will end in April 2009;
• Further increase to 5.6 weeks (28 days maximum) planned for April 2009.
What you need to do
• Check to see whether the new minimum annual holiday entitlement will affect any of your employees. Any employee with less than 4.8 weeks' annual holiday will be entitled to the new minimum from 1st October. Where this date is part way through the holiday year, the increase will initially be on a pro-rata basis;
• Ensure the Holiday Entitlement section in your Personnel Guidance System and Employee Handbook are updated to reflect the change;
• Issue a memorandum to all staff notifying them of the change.