Holiday Policy and Holiday Request Form

Entitlement, booking, holiday pay and carry-over rules – including irregular-hours and part-year workers.

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People & HR

Holiday Policy and Holiday Request Form

About this document

What it’s for

A complete holiday policy covering entitlement for full-time, part-time, irregular-hours and part-year staff, how to book leave, how holiday pay is calculated, carry-over, sickness and leaving. A holiday request form and annual record card are included.

When to use it

  • Adopt it for all staff and refer to it in contracts and your handbook
  • Use the request form for every holiday booking
  • Use the record card to meet the holiday record-keeping duty in force since 6 April 2026

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Purpose
  2. Scope
  3. Definitions
  4. Holiday year
  5. Holiday entitlement
  6. Irregular-hours and part-year workers
  7. Starting and leaving during the Holiday Year
  8. Bank and public holidays
  9. Requesting and booking holiday
  10. Holiday required or cancelled by the Organisation
  11. Holiday pay
  12. Carrying over holiday
  13. Sickness and family leave
  14. Holiday when employment ends
  15. Unpaid leave and other time off
  16. Records
  17. Monitoring and review
  18. Related documents

Also included

  • Section 1 – Employee
  • Section 2 – Leave requested
  • Section 3 – Manager decision

How to complete it

  • Set your holiday year and entitlement in clauses 4 and 5
  • Choose how bank holidays are treated in clause 8
  • Decide whether you use rolled-up holiday pay for irregular-hours workers (clause 6)
  • Set your notice and carry-over rules in clauses 9 and 12

Key points to check

  • Holiday pay for the first four weeks must reflect normal pay, including regular overtime and commission
  • Keep holiday and holiday pay records for six years

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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