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(UK) Employment law and holidays?

My manager has e-mailed me to the effect that due to the new laws about extra holidays in one year, we are no longer allowed to carry holidays over - they all have to be used within the same year. I'm also advised that I couldn't be paid for any days outstanding but that I would lose them - is this the case? Can someone point me to the relevant website that says holidays can't carried over from one financial year to another please?

Public Comments

1. There is no law at all about carrying holiday over. It is your company's policy.
2. you have to find out how your company do it.
3. this was changed in my company a couple of years ago and they said it was a law change.
4. www.dwp.com Its all on there
5. this is now true, you must use or loose holidays not sure about the pay for them but this country doesn't give anything away so you most likely loose that too.
6. It isnt a law but is a company policy, the majority of companies do not let you carry holidays over.
7. It is up to individual companies to decide if they will let staff carry holiday from one year to the next, and how much. One of the companies I worked for years ago would NOT allow you to carry any holiday over at all. Other companies let you carry up to 5 days over, after 1 month into the next year you lose it anyway.
8. I can't point you to the relevant website since all that stuff has been moved - it used to be on DWP's website and now it isn't. There's two things to note here though: 1) Your employer is within their rights to create any policy that they want to regarding annual leave and carrying days over, provided that they still comply with the law. 2) Legally in each year, you now have to take 24 days holiday including bank holidays (and this figure is going to be increased again in October to 28 days). You used to only have to take 20 days. So, the situation now depends on what your actual allowance is, and whether this is more than the legal requirements, or whether it's exactly in line with the legal requirements. But, let's say (for the purposes of me trying to explain it) that your annual leave allowance is now, and always has been, 24 days per year including bank holidays. This means that in a previous year, you could have carried over up to four days to the next year, because you would have still taken the 20 days that you used to have to legally take. However now that the legal requirement is 24 days, you have to take all of them in that year because otherwise you're not taking the legal minimum days off.