Holiday pay

musashi10

Hello there.

My wife has just started working in the UK for the first time-she has all the required visas etc and NI numbers.

The job is for minimum wage and through an agency. However, I assumed that all workers were entitled to statutory holiday pay seperate from minimum wage? On her pay slip there is no mention of any holiday pay and I thought there was something like a 25 day entitlement to every worker in the UK?

any help on this would be great.

clairec79

My payslips never mention holiday pay

Apricot

There is a minimum holiday entitlement for 40 hrs per week I think it works out as 17 days holidays + 8 bank holidays (25 days) however if she only works part time she will get less.
Does she have a contract? Not all pay slips show the holidays and in some companies you have to accrue your days before you can take them. Perhaps ask her to give the agency a call and Im sure they will explain it to her.

Mudd14

Workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks statutory holiday per year. This can be accrued as specified by your employer which can include accruing by the day, month, hour etc as long as it equates to 5.6 weeks per annum.

Agencies tend to use rolled up holiday pay and accrue it at 12.07% of every hour worked and add it on to the hourly rate. But this will vary according to who you work for.

Just because you cant see it on the payslip doesnt mean the holiday pay does not exist. Have you asked the agency?

RedSoleShoes

Some agencies pay a higher hourly rate to compensate for holiday pay - then when you take leave, you don't get any pay because it is lumped in with your weekly pay. As she is on minimum wage, this does definitely not include holiday pay, therefore the agency have to pay her this separately. Without seeing her contract, I could not say when this is or if there are any rules about acruing it before it can taken.

As stated, she will be entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday. If she works a 5-day week, this would equal 28 days (generally 20days plus the 8 BH if these are not normally worked). A part-timer would get pro-rata holiday.

I would imagine she has to accrue her holiday before she can take paid leave, but if, for example, she left the job after one month, she would be entitled to be paid for the untaken holiday (about 2 days pay).

getmore4less

Holiday pay cannot be rolled up,

It should be shown seperately on pay slips now if PAYG.

Mudd14

It is still called rolled up holiday pay it is just the way it is shown must be indvidually as you mention.

Debt_Free_Chick

When you take a day's leave, you are paid your normal pay, in the usual way. You don't get paid "salary" for the days you work and "holiday pay" for the days you don't - you just get paid "salary".

Even if you are paid in lieu of holiday earned, but not taken, you are simply being paid a day's salary.

For these reasons, payslips very rarely use the term "holiday pay" unless the systems are set up to do that specifically. Taking a day's leave is just noting that you've had a day out of your total entitlement. I've never yet worked in a system whereby payroll deduct a day's "salary" and pay you a day's "holiday pay" instead.

Back to the OP ... has your wife actually taken any holiday yet? Has she been there long enough to have earned any holiday entitlement. Why do you think "holiday pay" should be showing on her payslip?