Christopher Chope – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christopher Chope on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will introduce legislative proposals that employers be required to calculate holiday pay solely by reference to standard contract hours.

Jenny Willott

There are no current plans to require employers to calculate holiday pay solely by reference to standard contract hours.

The arrangements for holiday pay are set out in the Working Time Regulations 1998.

These arrangements differ according to the working pattern of the individual worker. If a worker has fixed hours and fixed pay, then a week’s holiday pay is the same amount as a worker receives for each week’s work. If the worker has no fixed hours, then a week’s holiday pay represents the average pay that a worker received over the previous 12 weeks.

More information about holiday pay can be found on the Gov.UK website at

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay-the-basics