Annual Leave and Public Holidays Policy
This policy is included in the Employee Handbook.
All UK employers are legally required to comply with the Working Time Regulations. As well as providing all workers with statutory paid annual leave.
Employers should also explain to employees their annual holiday entitlement and any conditions, such as how it should be requested.
This document defines the company's policy in relation to annual, public and bank holiday leave and procedures that should be followed.
Topics covered within this policy and procedures include:
Leave allowances and entitlements:
- Annual leave and statutory paid leave entitlements.
- Statutory and public holidays.
- Calculating leave entitlements and dealing with partial days.
- Part-year leave entitlements for joiners and leavers.
- In lieu payments.
Requests, authorisation and declines:
- Approving leave, absence and time-off work.
- Unauthorised absence and taking previously unapproved leave.
- Outstanding and untaken holiday entitlements at the end of an annual leave year.
- Carrying over unused days to the next annual leave year.
Leave restrictions:
- Maximum number of staff allowed off work at the same time.
- How conflicting leave requests will be resolved.
- Annual leave restrictions.
- Annual shut-down periods (e.g. leave to be taken at certain times of the year such as christmas breaks)
- Request for leave during religious festivals.
Annual leave entitlements during:
- Maternity, paternity or adoption leave.
- Parenal leave.
Legal Update:
1 April 2009 Statutory Minimum Paid Leave increased to 28 days.
This policy complies with April 2009 new legislative entitlements.
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