What is the current annual leave entitlement?
Most workers, whether part-time or full-time, are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid annual leave. Additional annual leave may be agreed as part of a worker's contract. If a worker does a five-day week, they are entitled to 28 days leave. If they work a three-day week, the entitlement is 16.8 days leave.
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Does an employee have a right to take time off if their childminding arrangements break down?
The legal right is to reasonable "time off for dependants", which can give an employee time off to deal with emergencies. This would be unpaid and would normally expect to last one or two days (or what is considered to be reasonable) so that other arrangements can be put in place. You may suggest that the employee uses annual or special leave. As an employer, you may decide to give special leave with pay.
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Can I refuse an annual leave request?
Yes, employees have the right to statutory annual leave but as the employer you can say when leave can or cannot be taken. Some organisations have shutdowns when employees have to take leave, others may stop people taking leave during busy periods at certain times of the year.
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ACAS Advice leaflet - Holidays and holiday pay
This leaflet gives a summary of holiday entitlements. It sets out:
The right to annual leave
When a leave year starts
How and when workers can take leave
How to calculate holiday pay.
There is also a question and answer section that covers issues such as:
Public holidays
Part-time workers and holidays
Leave years that start at different times
Accrual systems.
The leaflet is available to download from the 'Download PDF' link below. Alternatively, hard copies are available to order from our publications section of the site.
http://www.acas.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=955&p=0 |
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