How does Holiday pay work? ,

[Itchy]

I know that when you quit your job/sacked the company must pay you 1.5 days holiday pay per month
that you have worked there and I've always gotten it this way.

Thing is that is ALL I know about holiday pay, so what happens if you work and never take any holidays?
it is a case of use it or lose it? , I've never stuck around long enough to have accumilated holidays
Itchy by name and itchy feet by nature. The company is 2 months away from its year end and I'll have
8 days holiday as by then I'll have worked 8 months, do I get any compensation for never taking holidays? ,
or should I book in 8 days at the year end and just sit around at home doing nothing since I'll not be compensated
for it?.

I don't really want to go anywhere the pissy poor wages mean I can't exactly afford to go anywhere either
and its the wrong season for European touring. (a cheap option petrol + tyres + £40/night formulae 1 hotels)

Also it is company policy that Holidays cannot be carried over to the next period,


Before anybody says it,

My company deserves utterly zero loyalty and I won't put in more than the absolute minimum required effort
as the company has really cut back in the 6 months I've been here , they reneged on the bonus scheme
which we earned ,which was a trick to see how hard we could work , so they could load us with more work
without paying us more they stopped paying for ALL staff training , they do not replace those who leave shifting
the work onto those who stay.Everybody is demoralised and wanting to leave.It'd be understandable if they
company was in shit but it isn't the company is doing v well

Though I do realise that this is an increasing UK trend.

Any suggestions? (other than leaving which I will in April next year)

Thanks
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[owdamer]

Some firms let you carry holidays over to the next holiday year, some pay up for unused holidays but thats quite rare.
My firm let me carry 5 days over, but I have to use them within 3 months of the start of the new holiday year or I lose them.
There is no legal requirement for an employer to let you carry them over though.

[yambabe]

The statutory allowances are 20 days pro-rata per year, which are usually accrued according to length of service. This means you are "collecting" 1.666 days per month actually so at the moment if you've been there 8 months you have 13 days.

There is no statutory requirement for an employer to pay Bank Holidays (yet) so check your contract. If the business is closed on bank hols and you have still been paid a full week's salary you may need to deduct them from the amount you have "earned".

An employer does not have to carry over any unused holidays at the end of the holiday year although some do. They are actually prohibited from making a payment in lieu of unused hols (although some still do) as the legislation was brought in to ensure that employees take time off as well as to make sure they got paid. Check your contract again as it should specify any particular terms relating to this. He does have to pay them if you leave before the end of the holiday year though.

Incidentally check when your company's holiday year is, it's not necessarily the calendar year! It may be April-March (the tax year) or any random date really - we use October-Sept as the Working Time Regulations were first introduced in October.

In your particular case if you really don't want to take any time off I would book your 2 weeks and sign up for a bit of agency work or casual work whilst you're away from your main job.
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[Louise]

If I dont use all my holidays up by the end of the year, I loose them alltoghter. Which is a bitch

[owdamer]

What I can't understand is why you wouldn't take your holidays??
Theres people where I work who end up taking all their holidays in march as thats the last month of our holiday year. How the hell can anyone work right through summer bustin their ass to make someone else rich? crazy.

[Louise]

The place I work is only allowed one member of staff from the Kitchen or Bar to go at a time.
Summer months, anyone is lucky to have time off. Xmas time, again you will be lucky to get time off.
So last year, to piss them ALL off I booke 2 weeks off for America, come back work 4 days then piss off to Greece for 3 weeks.
Oooooo the remarks I got

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[Itchy]

[Itchy]

[yambabe]

[Kaben]

If you work as a Temp, then you accrued holiday will be payed to you when you get your P45. The accrued holiday pay is part of your hourly salary (8.33%) and is something that is already yours.

If you a permanent member of staff then you must use your holiday with the holiday else lose it. You will not be paid for any holiday you do not take.

Hope this help mate
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