Holiday leave

• Navigating the 2024/2025 Holiday Year: The Case for an Extra Day Off

  • PostedMarch 14, 2025

  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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• The King’s Coronation – are employers required to give an extra day’s holiday?

  • PostedApril 28, 2023

  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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• Dealing with holiday during a global pandemic

  • PostedJune 9, 2020

  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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• How do we deal with holiday for those on furlough leave?

  • PostedMay 27, 2020

  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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• COVID-19 – workers able to carry over holiday for the next two leave years

  • PostedApril 2, 2020

  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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• CJEU looks at question of carry over of holiday

  • PostedNovember 22, 2019

  The Court of Justice of the European Union has considered the question of whether annual leave must be carried over from one leave year to another if the employee was...

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