Holiday snaps: a round-up of holiday-related issues

• Author:
• Alexandra Davidson

The law on statutory holiday, introduced in 1998, has now matured and there have been a number of recent decisions which, taken with the forthcoming increase to statutory holiday entitlement, have brought this topic into focus.

The increase in entitlement will be introduced in two stages: the initial increase in October 2007 is from four weeks to 4.8 weeks (for a full time employee an increase from 20 days to 24 days) and there will be a further increase to 5.6 weeks (28 days) in April 200... (503 more words)

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