How do I calculate my employee’s holiday entitlement?

As with all employees, your staff member has a legal minimum holiday entitlement. As a domestic employer, it’s your responsibility to clearly state the holiday allowance in the employment contract and to administer holiday pay where it is due.

Please visit gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement to calculate holiday entitlements.

Please note, this calculator should only be used to calculate holiday for employees on a fixed hours contract.

If your employee will be working on a variable hour’s basis, please speak to a member of our team, who will happily calculate this for you.

Full-time employee

By law, a full-time employee is entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks (28 days) of paid leave per annum. Employers can choose to offer more than the legal minimum if they wish. Holiday can only be taken as it has been accrued.

Bank Holidays

Bank Holidays are included within the 28 days entitlement. Therefore, if your employee were to take a Bank Holiday off, it will be deducted from their holiday entitlement.

Bank Holidays do not have to be taken and the holiday days can be taken at another time, providing an agreement has been reached between the employee and the employer.

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