We updated you in our Newsletter 2023 no.4 on the changes to holiday pay which were introduced on 1 January 2024 by the Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023.
Guidance has now been published on the holiday pay changes.
What’s new?
The Government has published guidance on the holiday pay changes and provides some helpful explanations and examples of how to carry out calculations, including:
How to interpret the definitions of ‘irregular hours worker’ and ‘part-year worker’;
How statutory holiday will accrue for irregular hours and part-year workers;
How to calculate holiday entitlement where a worker leaves a job part-way through a leave year;
How to calculate holiday entitlement for workers whose weekly hours are fixed but whose daily hours vary;
How to deal with the accrual of statutory holiday during family-related leave or sick leave;
When workers are entitled to carry leave forward into the next leave year; and
How to calculate holiday pay taking account of regular payments such as bonuses, commission and overtime.
