13th March 2008, 02:52 PM
The Government has released its latest proposals for extending the statutory annual holiday entitlement from 20 to 28 days.
The proposals are a response to the fact that UK workers do not currently have a legal right to paid time off on public or bank holidays, and so some have to include this time off as part of their 20-day annual leave entitlement.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was originally proposing to increase statutory annual leave in two stages, with the entitlement rising from 20 to 24 days on 1 October 2007, and a further increase from 24 to 28 days taking effect on 1 October 2008.
However, following the latest round of consultation, a number of changes have been made to the draft regulations, including:
Delaying the introduction of the second increase until 1 April 2009
Enabling payment in lieu of the additional holiday entitlement to continue until 1 April 2009, as a temporary measure aimed at helping employers with transitional arrangements
Providing an incentive for early compliance with the regulations, so that employers that already meet the full requirements as at 1 October 2007 will be taken outside of the regulations, as long as they continue to meet them.
--- You are quite right Peter that the 28 days will be 20 days plus bank/public holidays...
where at the moment it is 20 day (including bank/public holidays)
take me away and shoot me ...
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
The proposals are a response to the fact that UK workers do not currently have a legal right to paid time off on public or bank holidays, and so some have to include this time off as part of their 20-day annual leave entitlement.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was originally proposing to increase statutory annual leave in two stages, with the entitlement rising from 20 to 24 days on 1 October 2007, and a further increase from 24 to 28 days taking effect on 1 October 2008.
However, following the latest round of consultation, a number of changes have been made to the draft regulations, including:
Delaying the introduction of the second increase until 1 April 2009
Enabling payment in lieu of the additional holiday entitlement to continue until 1 April 2009, as a temporary measure aimed at helping employers with transitional arrangements
Providing an incentive for early compliance with the regulations, so that employers that already meet the full requirements as at 1 October 2007 will be taken outside of the regulations, as long as they continue to meet them.
--- You are quite right Peter that the 28 days will be 20 days plus bank/public holidays...
where at the moment it is 20 day (including bank/public holidays)
take me away and shoot me ...
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu