Holiday pay for 16 year old?

jammy123

Could you please tell me if my son is entiteled to holiday pay?
He has worked in a small local garden centre for two years on sat and sunday.
we have just been on holiday and they paid him holiday pay for the first time.
However he has been into work today and been told that he was not entitled to it,it was a mistake and they are going to take it back in full next week?
The same thing has happened to his girlfriend who is also 16 and works for the same people.
Could someone tell me how to find out his rights?
Thankyou

Emmzi

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/employment/holidays_and_holiday_pay.htm

Most workers have the right to four weeks' paid holiday. If you are a part-time worker, a fixed term worker or a worker in your first year of employment, you are entitled to paid holiday in the same way as full-time workers. There is also no maximum age limit for qualifying for paid holidays. There are some groups of workers who are not entitled to paid holidays.

If your contract of employment gives you less paid holiday than the law says you should have, you still have the right to amount of paid holiday the law gives you. So even if your employment contract says you are only entitled to two weeks' paid holiday a year, this does not take away your right to four weeks' paid holiday. You may be entitled to more than four weeks' paid holiday if your contract says so.

jammy123

Thankyou so much ,i have just had a good read and told my son.
Result- one very happy teenager:D
Thankyou