Calculating Holiday Allowance

  • January 28, 2022

Calculating Holiday Allowance

All employees including household staff have a legal minimum holiday entitlement. As a domestic staff employer you must state your employee’s holiday allowance in the contract of employment and administer holiday pay where due.

Full Time Employees

A full-time employee is entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks (28 days) of paid annual leave. This includes the 8 UK bank holidays. Employers can choose to offer more than the legal minimum if they wish. The same rules apply for full-time temporary employee’s.

Part Time Employees

Part-time employees are also entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday but in proportion to the hours that they work (also known as ‘pro-rata’). You can use our holiday entitlement calculator to work this out but it is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked per week by 5.6, eg: 3 days per week x 5.6 = 16.8 days holiday entitlement per year.

Bank Holidays

Bank holidays are included in the 28 days. Therefore, if your employee were to take a bank holiday off it would be deducted from their annual leave entitlement. If a part time employee does not normally work on a day which a bank holiday would fall, then the bank holiday does not affect their entitlement. 

If you require your employee to work on a bank holiday, your employee will be entitled to take that days annual leave at a later date.

Your employee's P60 for the 23-24 tax year will be available on your Members Area from Monday 15th of April 2024.

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