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\"\"\/<\/a>What is holiday entitlement?<\/h2>\n

Holiday entitlement is the legal minimum amount of time employees can have off each year. Under UK law, paid holiday entitlement is currently 5.6 weeks per year.<\/p>\n

Holiday entitlement UK<\/h2>\n

In the UK, you\u2019re entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid holiday per year. This equates to 28 days of paid annual leave per annum for a full-time employee working five days a week.<\/p>\n

Part-time employees are entitled to the same amount of holiday. This is calculated pro rata, which means it is proportional to the amount of days they work. So if your employees work 3 days a week, they\u2019re entitled to 16.8 days paid holiday per year.<\/p>\n

You cannot round holiday entitlement down, but you can round it up \u2013 so give your employees 17 days instead of 16.8, for example.<\/p>\n

As an employer, you also can give more than the minimum number of weeks if you want to. It is good practice to specify how much leave employees are entitled to in employee contracts, or in your company handbook if you have one.<\/p>\n

Employers can ultimately decide when employees take their holiday, and approve their requests. You can also decide whether to include bank holidays and public holidays as part of the minimum entitlement. You don\u2019t legally have to give employees paid leave on bank holidays or public holidays.<\/p>\n

Employees can start accruing (building up) holidays as soon as they start work. Employees are also entitled to holiday leave through their ordinary and additional maternity, paternity and adoption leave.<\/p>\n

\"List<\/a>Holiday entitlement for self-employed<\/h2>\n

Unfortunately, you have no statutory right to paid annual leave if you\u2019re self-employed. You are, however, entitled to paid holidays if you are classed as a worker.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, you\u2019re considered a worker if you have a contract and have to turn up for work even when you don\u2019t want to. You can learn more about your employment status and entitlements here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Holiday pay entitlement<\/h2>\n

Employees are entitled to full pay during their holidays. If your employees leave without taking all of their holidays, you also have to pay your employees for any holidays they don\u2019t take.<\/p>\n

Calculating holiday pay<\/h2>\n

Employee holiday pay should consist of normal weekly wages plus any guaranteed overtime. Non-guaranteed overtime, commission and work-related travel also need to be taken into account.<\/p>\n

If your employees have varied pay, then their holiday pay should be their average weekly wage from the previous 12 weeks. Similarly, if your employees work shifts then you should average their weekly hours over the prior 12 weeks and use this to calculate their average weekly hours.<\/p>\n

Calculate holiday entitlement<\/h2>\n

If your employees work a full-time, five day week then they will be entitled to the full minimum of 28 days paid leave per year. For employees who work less than this, you can calculate their annual leave by multiplying the number of days they work by 5.6.<\/p>\n

This calculation also applies to part-time employees and agency workers. The agency must allow employees to take their paid holiday.<\/p>\n

Part-time and agency workers shouldn\u2019t be treated less favourably than full-time employees. When you are handling holiday requests or rotas, treat your employees fairly and take their requests into account. Also remember that if you give full-time employees extra days off, then you may have to give this time to part-time employees too.<\/p>\n

HR software<\/a> is a great way to keep track of your employee\u2019s holidays. You can quickly create full reports<\/a> on employee absences and use them to:<\/p>\n