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What is the exact wording of the law which covers the accrual and taking of holidays?
What is the exact wording of the law which covers the accrual and taking of holidays? I ask because I have seen somewhere that the law provides for 24 days paid holiday to be "taken within the year". My firm uses a multiplication factor for each week worked which would give me 24 days paid holiday after working for 52 weeks. They also state that no holiday is accrued whilst not working i.e. whilst taking said holidays. How can I take 24 (4.8 weeks) days paid holiday within the year when the remaining 47.2 weeks multiplied by the factor does not come to 24 days? The aforementioned factor is 0.462.
The law which covers holidays is the Working Time Regulations 1998.
During your first year of employment only, your employer can restrict the amount of holiday to that which has been accrued by the time you want to take the holiday. Thus you accrue one twelth of your entitlement at the beginning of each month.
You do accrue holiday whilst on holiday. Holiday should be taken in the holiday year to which it applies - there is no right to 'carry over' as such.
I am not sure why your employer uses a 'multiplication factor', it seems unnecessarily complicated - but the above is taken from the Regulations
Your employer is correct in that if you are full time you are entitled to 24 days holiday a year.
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