| Changes To Holiday Entitlement |
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The Government has published draft regulations to boost the minimum holiday entitlement from 20 days a year to 24 days this October, and to 28 days from April 2009. The final regulations are expected during July. The basic position is that workers will be entitled to the extra holiday with pay, referred to in the draft regulations as "additional leave", from 1st October 2007. As at present, there will be no statutory entitlement to time off for bank holidays but if they are taken they will be counted as part (or all) of the new entitlement. For a full time worker who works 5 days a week the additional leave will be 4 days per year as from 1st October 2007 increasing to 8 days from 1st April 2009 (put back from October 2008 as previously proposed). As with the basic 20 days holiday entitlement, part time workers will be entitled to additional leave pro rata. |
