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.
