Overtime Payment instead of Day in Lieu

[IcanthelpthewayIam]

This could be a potential head ache for someone!

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If public holidays are included in the 5.6 weeks, you will need to give your employee three compensatory days off later in the year to ensure that he gets his full 5.6 weeks off.

The law does not allow any payment in lieu for statutory holiday entitlement (except when employment terminates) and, therefore, you cannot simply pay him for the three days.

So getting paid a day in lieu for a bank holiday might not actually be allowed if its eating into your statutory annual leave entitlement so basically if you are a fairly new starter and have basic holiday entitlement you can only theoretically ask to be paid for 4 bank holidays and must take the rest as annual leave

[fishtank]

Like all employment/civil law and unlike criminal law there isn't really an enforcement agency like the police so it relies on the "injured party" raising a claim.

Since it's only an "option" there isn't really an injured party.
If it was compulsory there may be but it isn't.