Know your way on holiday pay

With the holiday season in full flow, Rochdale employers need to be mindful of a number of issues relating to holiday entitlement and holiday pay calculations, according to the Institute of Payroll Professionals.

Granting leave should be straightforward, but recent legislative changes combined with last-minute requests for leave are likely to throw up problems.

Legislation launched in April guaranteed a worker’s statutory paid holiday entitlement increased to 28 days a year for an employee working a five-day week.

This takes into account public holidays although there is no automatic entitlement to these days off.

Holiday pay should be based on the worker’s normal pay with part-time workers being entitled to the same holidays as full-time workers on a pro-rata basis.