By Nicky Stibbs
Brightmine editor: Brightmine content team
This guide sets out workers’ entitlement to a minimum of 5.6 weeks’ paid annual holiday. The guide focuses on statutory holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 but also addresses entitlement to contractual annual leave.
In this guide, learn about:
- Meaning of “worker”
- Amount of statutory holiday entitlement
- Distinction between reg.13 and reg.13A leave
- Part-time workers: pro rata entitlement
- Accrual of annual leave during sickness absence and family leave
- Holiday in first year of employment
- Additional bank holidays
- Bank holiday entitlement for part-time workers
- Contractual holiday
- Remedies and penalties
- Claims under the Working Time Regulations
- Claims under the Employment Rights Act 1996
- Future developments
- Fair Work Agency
- Record-keeping
- Seafarers
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About the author
Nicky Stibbs
Nicky Stibbs has many years’ experience in employment law having worked in the field since 2002. Her experience includes eight years as an associate at Bevan Brittan LLP. She also worked for several years as a senior employment lawyer at a unitary local authority. She has a broad range of experience in defending employers in the employment tribunal, advising employer appeal panels and on day-to-day employee relations, as well as TUPE and organisational change.
Nicky is a freelance writer of employment law articles for law firms. She works for Bevan Brittan LLP as a consultant solicitor and is an associate at Collingridge Employment Law, where she advises SMEs and individuals.
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