Holidays

Agency Worker Handbook – Holidays

Holiday entitlement

The Top Job Recruitment holiday year runs from 1st January to 31st December.

You will begin accruing annual leave from the first day of your assignment. Entitlement to payment for leave under this policy accrues in proportion to the amount of time worked by you on Assignment during the Leave Year. The amount of payment you receive will be calculated in accordance with the number of hours that you have worked on Assignment. The amount you will be paid for the annual leave is calculated by multiplying the entitlement, by the average number of hours worked and pay accrued over the past 12 weeks (or actual number of weeks worked if less than 12). All accrued annual leave must be taken during the holiday year in which it accrued and none may be carried forward to the following year. Any annual leave which has been accrued and not taken will be lost. You are responsible for ensuring that paid annual leave is requested and taken.

Prior to requesting a holiday, you will need to check that you have accrued sufficient holiday entitlement. You may also be required to take holiday at certain times of the year e.g. during a company shutdown. Where your contracted is terminated you shall be entitled to a payment in lieu of any untaken leave at the date of termination.

Bank holidays

Except where detailed in your Assignment Details form, where a bank holiday or other public holiday falls during an Assignment and you do not work on that day, then subject to having accrued entitlement to payment for leave that day shall count as part of your paid annual leave entitlement.

Qualifying period

Under the Agency Workers Regulations, on completion of the Qualifying Period you may be entitled to paid and/or unpaid annual leave in addition to the Agency Worker’s entitlement. If this is the case, any such entitlement will be as set out in the Assignment Details Form.

Taking leave

If you wish to take paid leave during the course of an Assignment you should notify Top Job Recruitment of the dates of the intended leave, giving notice of at least two weeks prior to the leave date. For Agency Workers on assignment at Albea, you must give a minimum of four weeks notice of request to take leave, noting that no more than two agency workers can be absent from a shift at any one time and that will be taken into account when granting leave. Leave will be granted therefore on a first come first served basis in this situation.

In certain circumstances we may require you to take paid annual leave at specific times or notify you of periods when paid annual leave cannot be taken.

Where you have given notice of a request to take paid annual leave in accordance with this clause, Top Job Recruitment may require you to postpone or reduce the amount of leave that you wish to take. If this happens Top Job Recruitment will inform you in writing giving at least the same length of notice as the period of leave that it wishes to postpone or reduce it by.