My employer will not agree to my request for holidays in the summer holiday period. What can I do? Can my employer make me work on bank holidays? Does my employer have to let me carry forward my unused annual leave into the next holiday year? I'm leaving a job, but haven't taken all my holiday allowance. Can I be paid for the days I lose? I want to take a break to travel. Do I have a right to unpaid leave from my job? I don't work Mondays. Will I miss out on bank holidays?
Can my employer make me take my holidays when they want, rather than when I'd like? What are bank holidays? Am I allowed time off to attend a job interview? I've started a job halfway through my company's leave year. How do I work out my entitlement for this year? I work a lot of overtime. Should my holiday pay reflect this overtime? Am I entitled to the following Monday off when a public holiday falls on a weekend?
How soon after I start with a new employer can I use my annual leave? My pay is in large part made up of sales commission. How should my holiday pay be worked out? Share This:. What is WorkSmart? A career coach that works for everyone. Your employer is not allowed to give you less than the legal minimum. You do not have a statutory right to paid leave on bank and public holidays. If your employer gives paid leave on a bank or public holiday, this can count towards your minimum holiday entitlement.
In Northern Ireland there are 10 bank holidays and public holidays. If you work on a bank or public holiday, there is no automatic right to an enhanced pay rate. What you get paid depends on your contract of employment. If you are part-time and your employer gives workers additional time off on bank holidays, this should be given pro rata to you as well, even if the bank holiday does not fall on your usual work day.
You can calculate your statutory holiday entitlement for full or part years based on the set days or hours you work. You can also find out how much holiday you're entitled to if you start or leave a job part way through the leave year.
For a basic calculation of your leave allowance multiply the number of days you work a week by 5. If you're a part-time worker, you're still entitled to 5.
You should be treated no less favourably if you are a part-time worker than an equivalent full-timer. This means that if your employer gives extra days off to full-timers they may have to give extra time off to part-time workers as well. If you are an agency worker, you are entitled to the statutory minimum leave entitlement. Your agency must allow you to take your paid holidays. If you work casual or irregular hours like term-time workers , you are entitled to paid time off for every hour you work.
For example, if you always work four hour shifts, followed by four days off , then the average working week is three-and-a-half hour shifts.
You would be entitled to For other shift patterns, it may be easiest to calculate according to the established pattern of repeat. Holiday is a legal right which your employer is obliged to give you. If you're not getting your full holiday entitlement, speak to your employer. If you have an employee representative, a trade union official for example, you can ask for their help.
Where the public holiday falls on a day which is not a normal working day for that business eg. If a person is on temporary lay-off they are entitled to benefit for the public holidays that fall within the first thirteen weeks of lay-off. PDF 1.
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