Annual Leave and Public Holidays Policy

All UK employers are legally required to comply with the Working Time Regulations.

Employers should explain to employees their annual holiday entitlement and any conditions, such as how it should be requested.

This document defines the company's policy in relation to annual, public and bank holiday leave and procedures that should be followed.

Sections within this policy and procedures include:

• annual leave allowances, including an explaination of how both statutory and public holidays are counted, and how annual holiday leave must be requested
• annual leave restrictions and whether annual leave must be taken at certain times of the year (e.g. christmas, winter or summer shut-down period)
  
• restrictions on the maximum of staff allowed to take annual leave or time-off work at the same time  (including an explaination of how conflicting requests will be resolved)
• how unauthorised absence will be handled (for example, if prior authorisation for holiday has not been granted)
• what will happen to any holiday entitlement that has not been taken by the end of the annual leave year and whether unused holiday can be carried-over to the next annual leave year
  
• how the company will deal with annual leave calculations when an employee either joins or leaves the company