WallChartBook answers

Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.

Annual leave answers for the UK small employer: how the entitlement is worked out for full-timers, part-timers, starters and zero hours staff, how accrual and holiday pay work, whether 28 days includes bank holidays, and what the tracker, the planner, the request form and a buy back scheme have to hold. Each page points at the free tool on this site that does the arithmetic.

• Holiday entitlement calculator: days a week times weeks of leave, capped at 28 days

  How a UK employer works out holiday entitlement on the 5.6-week minimum for full-timers, part-timers and starters, with the free calculator.

• Annual leave calculator UK: entitlement from the working pattern, in days or hours

  The UK annual leave calculation: entitlement from days or hours a week, the 28-day cap, and converting hours into days without short-changing part-timers.

• Pro rata holiday calculator UK: scale the weeks, not the days

  How to calculate pro rata holiday for a starter, a leaver or a part-timer in the UK, with the worked figures and the free calculator that does it.

• Holiday accrual calculator: accrual by the leave year, in twelfths

  How to calculate accrued holiday part way through the leave year, what a request can be booked against, and the free accrual calculator for UK employers.

• Does 28 days holiday include bank holidays? The rule, and pro rata bank holidays for part-timers

  Whether the UK statutory 28 days includes bank holidays, how the policy should say so, and how part-timers get their pro rata share.

• Holiday pay calculator: the 52-week average, and rolled up holiday pay for irregular hours

  How UK holiday pay is worked out for salaried, hourly and irregular-hours staff, the 52-week reference period, and when rolled up holiday pay is allowed.

• Zero hours contract holiday pay: accrued by the hour, paid on the average or rolled up

  How zero hours workers accrue holiday from the hours they work under the 2024 reforms, how their holiday pay is worked out, and how to keep the record.

• Employee holiday tracker: the columns it needs and the year end it has to survive

  What an employee holiday tracker has to hold for a UK small employer, the columns a holiday spreadsheet template needs, and where a spreadsheet stops.

• Employee holiday planner: the forward view of who is off, and the rule behind it

  What an employee holiday planner has to show a small employer, how to set the year up before it opens, and the rules a planner template needs written down.

• Holiday request form: the fields it needs and the rule it applies

  What a holiday request form has to capture for a UK small employer, the fields a template needs, and how the form feeds the balance and the wall chart.

• Holiday buy back scheme: what can be sold, how a day is priced, and the record

  How a small employer runs a holiday buy back scheme: only leave above the 5.6-week minimum can be sold, how a day is priced, what unlimited leave means.

• TOIL tracker: the balance of lieu time earned, taken and left, kept on the wall chart

  How a small employer keeps a TOIL balance for time off in lieu of extra hours worked, the rules the policy needs, and how it sits beside annual leave.