Please see below a question from a member, regarding holiday pay and entitlement for irregular hours and part-year workers: 

Following the recent publication of the government’s guidance on holiday pay and entitlement for irregular hours and part-year workers, has your business: 

• Changed, or going to change, the way you calculate holiday entitlement and/or pay for your employees?
• If you were already using the 12.07% method, are you going to continue with this or make any interim changes given the new law applies to holiday years after 1 April 2024?
• If you have employees who have minimum hours in their contracts but sometimes they work more than those minimum hours, are you going to treat them as irregular hours workers or not?
• If you operate in Northern Ireland, what changes have you made in calculating holiday pay for NI employees or are you going to make any changes?
• Made any other changes to pay and/or holiday entitlement as a result of this guidance?

Please send your feedback to Luiza (Luiza.gomes@brc.org.uk) by Friday, 05 April. The responses will be anonymised and shared with the HR Community.