Consultation outcome

Calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers

• From: Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 12 January 2023
• Last updated: 8 November 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

We have published this response within the Government consultation response for Retained EU employment law reforms document.

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Original consultation

Summary

We're seeking views on proposals to pro-rata holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers based on the annual hours they work.

This consultation ran from
midday on 12 January 2023 to 11:45pm on 9 March 2023

Consultation description

We are consulting on the calculation of holiday entitlement received by part-year and irregular hours workers, following the recent Supreme Court judgment in Harpur Trust v Brazel.

In the consultation we propose to introduce a holiday entitlement reference period for part-year and irregular hours workers, to ensure that their holiday pay and entitlement is directly proportionate to the time they spend working.

We also want to understand how entitlement is currently calculated for agency workers and how the consultation proposal might be implemented.

This consultation may be of interest to:

• employers
• workers
• business representative groups
• unions
• those representing the interests of groups in the labour market

Read the BEIS consultation privacy notice.

Documents

Calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers

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Calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers: consultation stage impact assessment

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Published 12 January 2023
Last updated 8 November 2023 + show all updates

1. 8 November 2023

   Link to consultation response added to page. The response has been published as part of the 'Government consultation response for Retained EU employment law reforms' document.

2. 12 January 2023

   First published.