Covid - Furlough payments & Holiday entitlement Advice please.

Joshyl5

Hello all,
I work for an Agency on a zero hour contract, completing 40 plus hours a week. I have some queries regarding a topic I mentioned to my consultant not too long ago.
The questions were:
1) How much annual leave have I accrued? (Our working year is January - January) - To which she replied I owe them 30+ Hours. Sadly, I have not requested any annual leave during Covid. I am also sure I had a good few hours saved pre-Covid. So when I was told I owed them, you can imagine the upset... It means that I am having to pay them back at a rate of 4.8 hours a week holiday accrual. Something about this feels a bit wrong to me. Like a loan from my Agency.
Do Zero-Hour employees accrue holiday during Furlough? She said no, however I have read differently elsewhere, so I would also love some clarity on this too.

Any advice would be muchly appreciated and I hope your advice and guidance can help others with these same questions.
Take care all.

sharpe106

Yes zero hour employees do the same as everybody else.

Ask them how they calculated that you owe them 30 hours leave. 

Jeremy535897

Agencies were reluctant to furlough staff because they accrue holiday pay, so I don't know how you can owe them holiday pay. For advice on holiday pay and zero hour contracts, see https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay-the-basics