Know your rights. Get your days. Stop letting employers shortchange your holiday.
Work out how many days you can book once bank holidays are counted, what your employer can and cannot do about dates, and how to spread the rest.
Read more →Which 2027 bank holidays turn a few days of leave into a nine or ten day break in England and Wales, with the dates and what to pack for a short trip.
Read more →Too many UK workers are being short-changed on holiday. Full-time, part-time, zero-hours: the law guarantees you 5.6 weeks. Here's what that actually means, how pro-rata works, and what to do if your employer isn't delivering.
Read more →"Use it or lose it" isn't the whole story. The carry-over rules are more complex than most employers let on, and sickness, maternity, and employer obstruction all create legal rights to roll holiday forward.
Read more →You do NOT have an automatic right to bank holidays off. That surprises a lot of people. Here's what the law actually says, how it affects your 28 days, and what to check in your contract.
Read more →Part-time and irregular hours are not the same thing and the law treats them completely differently. The 12.07% accrual method, when rolled-up holiday pay is lawful, and why an employer still working it out the 2022 way is probably underpaying you.
Read more →The Working Time Regulations set out a formula for accrued untaken leave, and a much narrower rule about clawing back leave you took but had not earned. What your employer can and cannot deduct, and what to check on the final payslip.
Read more →Overtime, commission and shift premiums should be in your holiday pay, and the weeks you were off sick should not be dragging the average down. The 52-week reference period in detail, plus why the first four weeks can be paid at a different rate to the other 1.6.
Read more →You keep earning annual leave while off sick or on maternity leave, and leave you could not take is not leave you have lost. The carry-over rules for each type of absence, the 18 month sickness limit, and the notice rules nobody reads.
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