NG Healthcare Staff Handbook

Your Holidays

What is my paid holiday entitlement? All staff are entitled to paid holiday from the day they start to work for NG Healthcare and our holiday year runs from 1 st April to 31 st March the following year. Holiday entitlement is accrued each month, for example most full time members of staff accrue about 1.7 days holiday each month. You should aim to spread your holidays over the year to ensure you are accruing holiday as you take them. The maximum entitlement is 5.6 weeks (28 days) inclusive of bank holidays per holiday year, this is then pro- rata’d if you work part time as detailed in the examples below:

Number of days worked

Entitlement

5 days 4 days

28 days

22.5 days

3.5 days (i.e. 4 days one week 3 days the next)

20 days 17 days

3 days 2 days

11.5 days

This is then reduced if you start to work within the holiday year. For instance, if you started on the 1 st October your entitlement would be 50% of that shown in the table above. The entitlements shown include all bank holidays therefore if you work on a Bank Holiday it doesn’t affect your entitlement but if you take the Bank Holidays off as a holiday it is deducted from your entitlement. Remember! Any entitlement you fail to take by the end of the holiday year will be lost as it cannot be paid or carried over into the next holiday year.

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