The UK government has launched a public consultation on how the new Fair Work Agency (FWA) will enforce workers’ statutory holiday pay rights from 2027. Published on 30 June 2026 by the Department for Business and Trade, the consultation forms part of the wider “Make Work Pay” agenda under the Employment Rights Act 2025. It […]
Read articleMonthly paid employees can still need an average holiday pay calculation. The key question is not how often they are paid, but whether their pay is fixed or includes variable elements such as overtime, commission, allowances, or shift payments. Under the Working Time Regulations 1998, regulation 16 says: “A worker is entitled to be paid […]
Read articleIs this now applicable for you? – back in January 2024 guidelines for Irregular hours and Part Year Workers holiday accrual were updated. If you employ workers with irregular hours or part-year contracts, and your holiday year starts (on or after 1st April 2024) so for many this will be January 2025, you can begin implementing […]
Read articleThe case of King v Sash Windows has been settled following several years of debate over the rights of workers to recover holiday pay where they were wrongly treated as being ‘self-employed’. In December last year, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that workers who have not taken paid leave because they were […]
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