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Carry Over Annual Leave: Complete UK Guide

Understanding your rights to carry over annual leave can make the difference between losing valuable holiday time and maximizing your work life balance. Many employees across the UK remain unclear about when they can carry forward unused leave, how much they’re legally entitled to keep, and what circumstances trigger automatic carry over rights. Changes to […]

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Effortless Ways to Plan Leave: Top Strategies for Effective Leave Management

Planning leave is essential for balancing work and personal life. This article provides practical strategies and tools to help you plan leave efficiently. Learn about key steps, best practices, and how technology can simplify leave management, ensuring minimal disruption to your workflow. Key Takeaways Effective leave management requires clear policies, timely submissions, and coordination among […]

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Getting Employees to Take Time Off: How to Encourage Staff

Now, initially, encouraging staff to take more leave doesn’t seem like the brightest idea. After all, if employees are away more frequently, that means more interruptions to projects and workflow. However, while that encouraging your staff to take all their entitled holiday allowance might result them being away at times that are inconvenient from the […]

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Free Leave & Holiday Tracker Spreadsheet 2022

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How does statutory sick pay (SSP) work?

The question is, however, how exactly does statutory sick pay work? While absent employees lowers your business’ productivity, it’s also preferable that staff stay home when they’re feeling sick. After all, they can’t perform their role to the best of their abilities when they’re ill – and there’s always the possibility that they’ll pass their […]

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Calculating accrued annual leave

Knowing how much annual leave your employees have accrued is important for when they request time off, as well as for when they leave the company. However, calculating staff holiday accrual can be time-consuming, and tedious, particularly if you don’t have the proper systems in place. This post looks at how holiday accrual works and […]

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Free Leave & Holiday Tracker Spreadsheet 2021

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Effects of COVID-19 on carry over leave

In light of the continuing situation with COVID-19, the UK government recently made changes to the rules regarding an employee’s ability to carry over annual leave. Under UK law and EU law, the statutory minimum holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks, which includes 1.6 weeks for bank holidays. These measures have been put in place for […]