Labour Research (September 2000)

Features: Law matters

Pay for holidays

When an employee on an annual salary has leave outstanding on

termination of employment, each day is worth 1/365th of their annual

salary, according to a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case. However,

the tribunal went on to rule that an employee working a five day week,

with 10 days' holiday outstanding, has the right to be paid 14/365ths of

salary to take account of the fact that Saturday and Sunday are not

working days.


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