Holiday tracking records entitlement, requests and remaining balance for each employee. UK workers are entitled to at least 5.6 weeks of paid statutory leave a year, which for a five-day week is 28 days and may include bank holidays.
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Statutory leave is 5.6 weeks a year. For someone working five days a week that is 28 days, and an employer may count bank holidays within it rather than on top of it — which is where most disagreements start.
Part-time workers get the same 5.6 weeks pro rata. Workers with irregular hours accrue leave as they work, and the rules here changed recently enough that older guidance is unreliable.
Not because the arithmetic is hard, but because it is maintained by one person who is also doing everything else. Balances drift, requests are approved in messages, and the disagreement surfaces when someone leaves.
In Bizzle, staff records and leave tracking are free for unlimited employees — you pay per payslip run, not per person, so tracking a casual team costs nothing.
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They can. An employer may include them within the 5.6 weeks or grant them on top. What matters is that the contract says which, clearly.
Leave accrues based on hours worked. The rules for irregular-hours and part-year workers have changed in recent years, so check the current position rather than relying on older guidance.
Accrued but untaken statutory leave is paid in the final payslip. Getting this wrong is a common source of disputes at exactly the point goodwill is lowest.
Yes. Logins are unlimited, so an employee can see their balance and put in a request, and you approve it from the same place — which ends the version where approvals live in a text thread nobody can find.
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