Rounding Up Holiday Entitlement

General_Grant

We know that holiday entitlement cannot be rounded down but I've just read on the ACAS website, (https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/calculating-holiday-pay)

"Holiday that's less than a full day

"If you’ve built up (‘accrued’) less than half a day of holiday, your employer must round this up to half a day. 

"If you’ve built up between half a day and a full day of holiday, your employer must round this up to a full day."

Does anyone know where they are getting that fact?  Especially as people working on a permanent contract may work different hours on different days of the week.  Or perhaps I have taken the quote out of context.

sharpe106

Think that may depend if you holiday is calculated in hours or days. Think the majority of newer contracts are now calculated in hours, so that employers don't have to round up basically.  

General_Grant

I've always worked on the basis that you need to round up to something sensible but that this didn't have to be to a "half day".  That could mean that something which worked out to be, for example, 20 minutes must be rounded up to half a day which could be 4 hours.  I don't think it is in the legislation and that it is just ACAS being a bit lax.  But if anyone does think it is a legal requirement that MUST be done, I'd like to know.

bucksbloke

We calculate in days for people that are full time and hours for people that are part time. 

Comms69

Is this just for the first year of employment? IE you've accrued 4.6 days, the employer rounds up to 5 to approve leave? Otherwise i have no idea where they got this from

General_Grant

Comms69 said:

Is this just for the first year of employment? IE you've accrued 4.6 days, the employer rounds up to 5 to approve leave? Otherwise i have no idea where they got this from

Perhaps I should ask ACAS.

KiKi

ACAS haven't framed this information very well, but it's correct.  It's where you've not accrued enough leave to take it.  Eg, if you've only accrued 2 hours, and you ask to take leave, they have to round it up to half a day (or refuse the leave).  Most employers would just refuse the leave.   
HTH 

General_Grant

The page I linked to no longer reaches the page from which I took the extract.  Perhaps the words will be changed.