LATEST
INFORMATION ON MINIMUM ANNUAL LEAVE
This is the latest information on the increase of minimum holiday entitlement and overrides anything written elsewhere on this web site.
The Government
published its response this week to the consultation on its proposals
to increase minimum annual leave entitlement from 20 to 28 days (4 to 5.6 weeks)
Ministers will implement the increase in stages, with an initial increase to 24
days from 1st October this year and the remainder in one further
stage on1st April 2009 and not in October 2008 as was originally
proposed.
The changes are designed to implement Labour’s 2005 manifesto pledge to provide
paid leave in respect of bank and public holidays.
The manifesto said: “We have introduced an entitlement for every employee
to four weeks’ paid holiday, and we propose to extend this by making it
additional to bank holiday entitlement.”
Contrary to the implication of the statement in the manifesto, the changes will
not in fact introduce a new right to paid leave on bank and public holidays.
Instead they simply increase the minimum paid annual holiday leave to 28 days
(5.6weeks) without specifying which days.