Common use of Holiday Entitlement Clause in Contracts

Holiday Entitlement. a In respect of the annual holiday period which commences on the first working Monday in January each year and ends on the Sunday preceding the first working Monday of the following year (the holiday year), an operative will be entitled to 25 days to annual holidays, as well as eight paid Bank/Public holidays. Payment for any additional public holidays declared by the Monarch or Government is at the absolute discretion of the employer. Operatives who join the employer after the date on which the holiday year begins will, until the beginning of the next holiday year, be entitled to a proportion of the entitlement to annual holiday and the proportion applied to this entitlement will be the same as the proportion of the first holiday year in which they are employed by the employer.