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Annual leave during maternity, adoption, shared parental and other family leave: FAQs on accrual, carry-over, bank holidays and holiday pay (including contractual entitlements and 2024 changes)

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This Practice Note

Sets out answers to common questions on how the right to paid annual leave interacts with maternity leave and with other categories of family leave, namely:

  • adoption leave
  • parental leave
  • shared parental leave
  • paternity leave
  • neonatal care leave
  • parental bereavement leave
  • bereaved partner’s paternity leave

This Practice Note provides:

  • concise responses to the FAQs, and
  • links to more in-depth guidance within our core materials on paid holiday entitlement, including the following Practice Notes:
  • Statutory paid holiday—the right
  • Statutory paid holiday—calculating holiday pay
  • Statutory paid holiday—carry-over
  • Statutory paid holiday—payment on termination
  • Statutory paid holiday—enforcement and claims
  • Paid holiday—contractual issues

The FAQs consider the position of:

  • all workers for holiday years beginning on or before 31 March 2024
  • workers, other than irregular hours or part-year workers (as defined by WTR 1998, SI 1998/1833, reg 15F), for holiday years beginning on or after 1 April 2024

For guidance on the provisions relating to irregular hours and part-year workers for holiday years beginning on or after 1 April 2024, see Practice Note: Statutory paid holiday—irregular hours workers...

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