"Holiday entitlement" refers to the amount of paid time off or vacation days an employee is allowed to take from work. It represents the number of days an employee has the right to take as a break without losing their regular salary.
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Note that most employees who fail to qualify for the
public holiday entitlement are still entitled to be paid «premium pay» for every hour they work on the holiday.
Many of our clients ask for detailed, practical advice
on holiday entitlement and pay to support them in making compliant and commercially sensible decisions.
He argued that he had not taken his full
holiday entitlement in any holiday year as it would have been unpaid.
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The reference boiled down to whether he should be allowed to carry forward his unused leave from 2004 and be paid in full for his accrued
holiday entitlement when his employment ended.
Minimum standards govern issues such as minimum wage, vacation entitlement,
public holiday entitlement, overtime pay, hours of work and termination and severance entitlement.
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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published regulations to boost the
minimum holiday entitlement from 20 days a year to 24 days in October, and to 28 days from April 2009.
Note, as well, that the Ontario Government has already passed a regulation which ensures that «elect - to - work» employees, such as temporary workers, have the same rights to public
holiday entitlements as other workers.
Working time: Although the Working Time Directive (now recast as 2003 / 88 / EC) is not explicit on these points, a series of rulings from the European Court of Justice have radically altered our understanding of
how holiday entitlement accrues and how holiday pay should be calculated.
The factsheet covers a range of issues on which workers are likely to have questions
including holiday entitlement and other employment right issues, the availability (or otherwise) of travel expense relief and why they may have been handed over to an umbrella company by an agency in the first place.
Indeed, I am not ashamed to admit that carrying out complex calculations for clients with staff working tricky patterns has occasionally caused me to throw down my calculator in utter despair, especially when you put
bank holiday entitlement into the mix!
Crucially, in all cases, the contract should state what the method for
calculating holiday entitlement is, when this calculation will be carried out and how bank holidays are treated.
She pointed out that the
longer holiday entitlement is allowed to accumulate, the more remote it becomes from the objective behind Art 7.1, which is to ensure that workers are entitled to appropriate periods of rest and recuperation during their working lives.
The referring court wanted to know if the WTD had to be interpreted as
allowing holiday entitlement to accrue indefinitely during a period of long - term sickness.
The advocate general's opinion in the German reference KHS AG v Schulte C - 214 / 10 addresses what should happen to a worker's
holiday entitlement under the Working Time Directive 2003 / 88 / EC (WTD) when a period of continuous sick leave straddles more than one leave year.
Schultz - Hoff appeared to have left open the possibility that in these
circumstances holiday entitlement could accrue indefinitely, assuming that under local law it could not be taken concurrently with sick leave.
Deborah Hely, employment partner at Beachcroft, says: «This initial opinion is of particular interest to employers because workers on long term sickness absence may never be in a position to take their paid statutory
holiday entitlement thus reducing the annual leave bill.»
If the line taken by advocate general Trstenjak is followed by the ECJ it will have significant implications for employers in the UK, and in other European jurisdictions in which workers have limited, if any, rights to carry
forward holiday entitlement deriving from the WTD.
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on holiday entitlement and compensate them for any losses incurred
The advocate general dismissed these arguments, pointing out that the
minimum holiday entitlement was a fundamental social right, and it would be impossible to ensure a comparable level of protection across the EU if member states were allowed to stipulate circumstances in which it could be lost because a worker was ill.
The Employment Tribunal rejected Mr Kocur's claims on the grounds that he received an enhanced hourly rate in comparison to Royal Mail employees and that this was adequate compensation for the less
generous holiday entitlement and rest breaks.
This also means that an employee who goes on a pre-arranged holiday whilst on long term sickness absence may still be entitled to reclaim their statutory
holiday entitlement for the whole of their sickness absence.
He claimed a payment in lieu of his
accrued holiday entitlement for two leave years but was denied his 2004 entitlement by the local courts because the permitted carry - over period was limited to three months.
I work around the kids school and we spilt
our holiday entitlement to care for the kids.
Employees continue to build up
holiday entitlement and can take any holiday they've accrued (built up) before or after the leave.
As evidence, he highlighted improvements to the minimum wage and increased
holiday entitlement.
Coming into force next month, Mr Hutton also reminded delegates the government has moved to stop employers forcing employees to take Bank Holidays out of
their holiday entitlement, with the guarantee of four extra days paid holiday.
But it must be recognised that by exercising their voice, unions have in fact highlighted key issues and achieved important changes around workplace safety,
holiday entitlement, low pay and the gender pay gap.
You also have the right to be paid for any untaken statutory
holiday entitlement that you have accrued.
Therefore, use up
any holiday entitlement to get away.
Employers can help themselves and the individuals they engage by properly thinking things through in advance and then being transparent as to how they will deal with
holiday entitlement.
The holiday entitlement of 5.6 weeks is equivalent to 12.07 % of the hours worked, or just over seven minutes for each hour worked.