Holiday entitlement
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In the UK, there are typically eight bank holidays each year: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, two May bank holidays, the August bank holiday, Christmas Day, and Boxing...
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Earlier this month, the Department for Business and Trade released new guidance on the holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024. The guidance goes through changes to the...
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The decision has finally been given in the Agnew case – it confirms that when deciding whether a series of underpayments of holiday pay is linked, this will be determined...
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This year there will be an additional bank holiday on 8 May 2023 to mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. This may leave employers questioning whether staff...
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Last week, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in the case of Harpur v Brazel dealing with a key principle in relation to how to calculate holiday for...
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A worker must receive a minimum of 5.6 weeks of holiday per year and be paid the equivalent of a week’s pay for a week’s leave. This is made up...
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Clearly the holiday season is going to look a little different for 2020, but as the world starts to reopen and we move into the summer period, this will start...
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HMRC updated their guidance for employees’ and have provided much-needed clarity on how to deal with annual leave periods whilst someone is on furlough leave. We know that holiday entitlement...
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This is an update – our original article was posted 19 March 2020. Following the Government’s advice of 18 March 2020 that all schools in the UK will be closed...
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The Government has announced there will be an amendment to Regulation 13 of the Working Time Regulations to allow workers to carry over EU holiday into the next two leave...
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Case update: Brazel v The Harpur [2019] EWCA Civ 1402 At the beginning of the year, we reported on the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s decision in the case of Brazel v...
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