ANNUAL HOLIDAYS, HOLIDAY PAY AND PROCEDURES

HOLIDAY ENTITLEMENT

You are entitled to accrue paid annual holidays, equivalent to 4 working weeks, during a complete holiday year. This is the entitlement for full time employees, part time employees will receive a pro-rata entitlement. This entitlement to annual leave does not include the Public/Bank holidays referred to later in this section. After completion of 2 years of employment, you will be entitled to 23 days holiday per year, and thereafter you will be entitled to an additional day for each subsequent year of service up to a maximum of 25 days.

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CALCULATION OF ENTITLEMENT

A "working week" may vary in length from employee to employee. Your "working week" will be as detailed in your individual Principal Statement of Terms and Conditions of Service.

Where your "working week" is not based on fixed or regular hours and/or days of work, your "working week" will be calculated as an average of the twelve weeks actually worked in the period immediately leading up to the commencement date of your holiday.

You will accrue your holidays concurrently during the year and your entitlement for part years of service will be calculated as 1/12th of the annual entitlement for each completed month of service during the prescribed current holiday year.
*N.B. Legislation prevents us from allowing you to carry over unused accrued holiday entitlement from the prescribed current holiday year into the next holiday year. The same legislation also prevents us from making a payment in lieu for holidays accrued but not taken in the prescribed current holiday year.
Therefore all accrued annual holiday entitlement not taken in the prescribed current holiday year will be forfeited.

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HOLIDAY YEAR

Our holiday year begins on the 1st January and ends on the 31st December each year.

If the Company operates a Christmas/New Year closure policy, you will be required to set aside a portion of your annual holiday entitlement to be taken during that closure period. The precise number of days and the dates on which they are to be taken will be confirmed to you at the beginning of each holiday year.

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HOLIDAY PAY

Your holiday pay is calculated using your basic weekly rate of pay.

Should you not work a basic week of fixed, or regular, hours and/or days of work, calculation of a "weeks holiday pay" will be based on an average of basic hours exclusive of overtime, commission, or bonus, during the twelve weeks actually worked, in the period immediately leading up to the commencement date of your holiday.

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HOLIDAY REQUESTS

In general terms, we seek to be as accommodating as possible in granting time off for annual holidays. However, all holiday requests will be considered on a "first come, first served" basis and we reserve the right to vary times requested in accordance with the needs of the business and to ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained. Once confirmed, holiday dates will not normally be subject to change.

All holiday requests are to be presented using the Holiday Request Form and submitted to Management. Holidays must not be booked without receiving prior authorisation from Management. If you take holidays without prior authorisation you will be subject to disciplinary action.

N.B. Should you disregard this rule and we are subsequently unable to grant your "request", we will not be liable for any financial loss you might incur, e.g. forfeiture of deposits or reservation penalties.

In order to plan our holiday rota as effectively as possible, we require you to give at least eight weeks notice of your wish to take holidays of a week or more and four weeks notice of single days holidays, such notice may be waived by mutual agreement with Management.

You will not normally be permitted to take annual holidays in excess of two consecutive working weeks.

In the event of a shortage of work situation arising, as an initial solution we may require you to take some, or all, of your unused accrued holiday entitlement, which has not previously been confirmed as agreed and booked.

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LEAVING DURING THE HOLIDAY YEAR

In the event of your employment terminating during the holiday year you may be required to take any holidays accrued but not taken in that holiday year during your notice period. Should there be insufficient time during your notice period for you to use up all of the holidays accrued and due to you, the outstanding balance will be paid in lieu as part of your final termination pay.

In the event of your employment terminating during the holiday year and you have taken holidays in excess of the number of days accrued and due to you, at the effective date of termination of your employment we reserve the right to recover a sum equal to the amount of excess holidays taken by making a deduction from your final pay. You will be notified of such at the time in writing.

THESE ARE EXPRESS WRITTEN TERMS OF YOUR CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT.

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