Holiday pay for employees at Level 1-3 has changed following recent legal judgements. Under the changes, an extra payment called Additional Holiday Pay (AHP) will be paid to staff who qualify, in the same month their annual leave is taken.
AHP takes into consideration overtime (including flat time), split duty, stand by, hourly enhancements and sea hours, worked in the three months prior to taking holiday. You can find an example of the way AHP is calculated in the HR FAQs section.
This principle only applies to the first 20 days of an employee’s holiday entitlement (pro rata for part-time staff) as per the EU Working Time Directive, known as ‘Euroleave’.
AHP is only paid for holiday booked using MyHR Dashboard, by you or your administrator. This is because the calculation is fully automated and the HR and Payroll system relies on knowing all payments and holiday bookings in order to calculate how much AHP is due.
The background to AHP
The aim of Additional Holiday Pay is to ensure that employees are not discouraged from taking their holiday because of a potential impact on their earnings.
AHP was agreed by the University Executive Board (UEB) in December 2017 and implementation started this February 2018 and has been backdated to the start of the leave year in October. All staff who received a payment in February will be provided with an explanation about the calculation and a link to further information on HR’s Additional Holiday Payment webpages.
Further work is ongoing with the Unions to agree the payment of money owing for anyone who qualifies for additional holiday payment from November 2014 to October 2017, more details will be available shortly.
If you have any questions about AHP, please contact AskHr.
