Paid annual leave without taking any?

Ajs1994

Good morning all,

My partner works for a wedding venue local to us.

Quick breakdown, she works part-time and between 16-20 hours per week.
I have checked HMRC's annual leave calculator and she's entitled to roughly 100 hours per year.

This month, in her pay was 2 hours of annual leave, her pay is monthly and is always a month ahead and the cut off date is the 15th of every month. Her annual leave was taken from 24th.

I'm confused as she has not taken any annual leave with this business and the cutoff for this months pay was 15 July. As mentioned above, there were 2 hours of annual leave paid to her for this month and she was informed that she may not be entitled to the full week of annual leave she took this week.

My question is, can an employer randomly pay out annual leave if you haven't taken any? I have trawled the internet and I can't really find much information on this. It just states that annual leave is in place so employers can get PAID TIME OFF work.

I'm almost certain that the business she is employed by are doing something fishy by paying annual leave when none has been taken. Any advice on this or can anyone link me somewhere that explains this in more detail?

The issue I am seeing is further on through this year, she will be able to take leave but may not be paid for it as they have been dishing it out randomly.

Regardless, 2 hours of annual leave doesn't make sense for a full week of annual leave taken either.

dil1976

Are they paying her total for annual accrued each month as she works variable hours then when she does have time off they wont actually pay her for that.

Ajs1994

dil1976 said:

Are they paying her total for annual accrued each month as she works variable hours then when she does have time off they wont actually pay her for that.

That would make sense, thank you