It is only 15 days until Christmas and 21 days until the end of 2020. No doubt after this year, you will be glad to move in to 2021!
If your holiday year for your business runs from 1 January to 31 December, employees normally have to take all of their holiday before the end of the year or they lose it. However, due to the Covid-19, the rules have changed with regard to holiday and employees do not lose the holiday but in fact can carry holiday over in to holiday leave period 2021 and 2022.
We would suggest that if any of your employees are currently being furloughed that you ask them to take any holiday during the furlough period to reduce the need for them to take excessive holiday in the annual leave period 2021 and 2022. If you ask employees to take holiday, you must give them twice the amount of notice to take the holiday, e.g., they take one day’s holiday you have to give them two days’ notice to take the holiday.
hey must be paid their full contractual rate of pay for the holiday. If they are on furlough you can claim furlough payment and pay the additional amount between furlough pay and contractual pay for the holiday.