Earning annual holiday

The length of your annual holiday depends on how long you have worked for the employer. You will receive two days of holiday for each leave-earning month that you have worked if your employment has continued for less than one year at the end of the leave-earning year (31 March). This entitlement rises to two and a half days for each leave-earning month worked thereafter. Collective agreements often provide for longer holidays.

You are still entitled to take two days of leave for every month of employment, even when your working time is so short that you have earned no holiday at all. Your employer will pay holiday compensation for this time off. Employees who work at home are also entitled to holiday compensation.

You earn your annual holiday over the leave-earning year, which begins on 1 April and ends on 31 March.