>Chris is a partner in the Employment Law Group of the Arthur Cox Belfast Office in Northern Ireland.
Chris has extensive experience dealing with both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. Chris advises a range of employers on all aspects of employment law including executive appointments, severance, grievances, disciplinary issues and trade union matters. Chris has represented clients before the Industrial Tribunal, Fair Employment Tribunal and the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland in employment litigation such as unfair dismissal, equality/discrimination and whistleblowing. Chris’ practice area includes advisory work and corporate transactions.
If an employee is under both a full-time contract and a second, casual contract with the same employer, are they entitled to holidays under both contracts?
As these are two separate contracts, the employee will be entitled to whatever statutory (or contractual) holidays apply under each contract. Therefore, the employee is entitled to receive their pro-rated holiday entitlement under the part-time contract in addition to the full-time entitlement under the full-time contract.
Although Working Time Regulations state that statutory holiday entitlement is subject to a maximum of 28 days, this refers to each employment. This means that employees that have two contracts with the same employer could end up with more than 28 days paid holidays in a year.
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