All nannies are entitled to holiday pay.
Holiday entitlement begins from the first day of employment but cannot be taken until it has been accrued (e.g. one day's holiday after 13 day's work)
Part time employees are entitled to 4.8 weeks of the hours they work. You can agree with your nanny at the start of the employment that they take some of their holiday when you take your own annual leave.
Listed below is the number of days holiday your nanny will be entitled to per year based upon the number of days they work each year.
5 days gets 24 days holiday per year
4 days get 19.2 days holiday per yer
3 days get 14.4 days holiday per year
2 days get 9.6 days holiday per year
1 day get 4.8 days holiday per year
From 1st April 2009 all employees holiday entitlement will be increasing to the following:
5 days get 28 days holiday per year
4 days get 22.4 days holiday per year
3 days get 16.8 days holiday per year
2 days get 11.2 days holiday per year
1 day get 5.6 days holiday per year.
Additional leave taken on a Bank Holiday is up to the individual employer to agree with their employee. Employers can offer to give their employee more holiday that the above.
