Holiday pay
From 1 October 2007, the statutory minimum annual holiday entitlement will rise from 4 weeks (20 days for those working a 5 day week) to 4.8 weeks (24 days). From 1 April 2009, all workers, including those working part time, will be entitled to 5.6 times their usual working week - capped at a maximum of 28 days.
Employees will not have to work for a qualifying period. They will be entitled to the increased entitlement in full as soon as they start work. You will be able to restrict the rate at which they take leave in their first year of employment.
You can include time off for bank and public holidays in the entitlement.
Part-time workers must receive annual leave equal to 4.8 then 5.6 times their usual working week, regardless of what days of the week they usually work.
The changes will not apply to you if by 1 October 2007 you:
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already pay all your full- and part-time employees for a minimum of 5.6 weeks of annual leave (though this figure can include bank and public holidays)
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do not allow payment in lieu of taking holiday
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allow the extra 1.6 weeks to be carried over for only one year - if you normally allow holiday to be carried over
You must calculate the increases proportionally, depending on when your leave year starts. You can round up partial days to the nearest full day or leave them as such. You will not be allowed to round down a partial day.
If both you and an employee agree to the arrangement, you will be allowed to carry over to the following year some or all of the additional holiday.
You must include the additional holiday when you work out average weekly working hours.
Labels: Holiday, Staff
Holiday arrangements
We will be away on holiday for the two weeks 15- 30 May 2006.
Whilst we sun ourselves on the beaches of Greece, you can phone the office and find out how to reach us in emergencies. And we do mean real emergencies :-)
Our email is occasionally monitored at holiday@nicolsonCA.co.uk.
Labels: Holiday
Christmas and New Year holidays
The office will be officially closed between Friday 23rd December and Wednesday 4th January 2006, inclusive.
However, we will be in between those times to deal with mail, payrolls and pressing issues, and you can phone the office and take pot luck on catching us. Probable hours are 11am to 3pm.
The office phones will be diverted to the mobile when we are closed, but we will not guarantee an instant response during the festive period.
Labels: Holiday
Annual holidays
We are away on annual family holiday from Monday 12 September to Monday 27th September, inclusive.
During this period, calls to the office will be directed to an answering machine where further instructions are available. Alternatively, you can email us at holiday@nicolsonCA.co.uk which we will monitor occasionally.
We will be taking the office laptop on holiday with us, in case of emergency, but we will charge any work undertaken at a substantial premium. Download sppeds are very poor, so please only send small documents.
Labels: Holiday, Our Practice
