{"id":471,"date":"2019-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/12\/holiday-entitlement\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"holiday-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/12\/holiday-entitlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday entitlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to government sources if you work a five day week, you are entitled to 5.6 weeks&rsquo; paid holiday a year. This is known as our statutory or annual leave entitlement.<\/p>\n<p>At first sight, 5.6 weeks looks to be an odd number of days, but it refers to a normal working week of five days. Accordingly, the 5.6 weeks translates to 28 working days.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, an employer can include bank holidays as part of your annual leave entitlement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about part-timers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part-time workers are still entitled to 5.6 weeks, but this will be reduced to reflect the number of days a week that they work. For example, if you work a three day week you would be entitled to at least 16.8 days leave in a year (3 x 5.6).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What if I work 6 days a week?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal posts to not shift if you work more than 5 days a week. The statutory limit of 28 days still applies.<\/p>\n<p>These paid leave entitlements apply to &ldquo;workers&rdquo;. A person is defined as a worker if:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they have a contract or other arrangement to do work or services personally for a reward (your contract doesn&rsquo;t have to be written),<\/li>\n<li>their reward is for money or a benefit in kind, for example the promise of a contract or future work,<\/li>\n<li>they only have a limited right to send someone else to do the work (subcontract),<\/li>\n<li>they have to turn up for work even if they don&rsquo;t want to,<\/li>\n<li>their employer has to have work for them to do as long as the contract or arrangement lasts,<\/li>\n<li>they aren&rsquo;t doing the work as part of their own limited company in an arrangement where the &lsquo;employer&rsquo; is actually a customer or client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A final definition. An employee is a worker with an employment contract. This contract may define other benefits that are not available to worker with no employment contract.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to government sources if you work a five day week, you are entitled to 5.6 weeks&rsquo; paid holiday a year. This is known as our statutory or annual leave entitlement. At first sight, 5.6 weeks looks to be an odd number of days, but it refers to a normal working week of five days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}