{ "name": "leavetracker.uk UK Statutory Leave Rules", "title": "UK Statutory Leave Rules", "url": "https://leavetracker.uk/datasets/uk-statutory-leave-rules/", "csv": "https://leavetracker.uk/datasets/uk-statutory-leave-rules.csv", "markdown": "https://leavetracker.uk/datasets/uk-statutory-leave-rules/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-11-08", "license": "https://leavetracker.uk/terms", "headline": "The UK Statutory Leave Rules carries 7 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages, from 4 to 104 week, read 7 November 2026.", "quotes": [ "The UK Statutory Leave Rules carries 7 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages, from 4 to 104 week, read 7 November 2026.", "8 of the 19 named sources read in full publish a figure; 11 publish none, read 7 November 2026." ], "citation": "\"leavetracker.uk UK Statutory Leave Rules\", updated 2026-11-08, https://leavetracker.uk/datasets/uk-statutory-leave-rules/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "week", "n": 6, "median": 4.8, "min": 4, "max": 78, "p25": 4, "p75": 23.7, "mean": 16.8667, "units": { "%": 1, "day": 3, "minute": 1, "month": 1, "week": 6, "year": 1 }, "published_sources": 8, "named_sources": 20, "read_sources": 19, "not_published": 11, "published_share": 0.421 }, "by_axis": {}, "rows": [ { "source": "GOV.UK taking sick leave", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave", "figure": "7 days", "value": 7, "unit": "day", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06", "quote": "Employees must give their employer a ‘fit note’ (sometimes called a ‘sick note’) if they have been ill for more than 7 days in a row and have taken sick leave.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "fab11da0d28803938c922f8b714bfd3421cbc88030197dbf5607ca3fcc329792" }, { "source": "GOV.UK taking sick leave", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave", "figure": "4 weeks", "value": 4, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06", "quote": "Employees who are off work sick for more than 4 weeks may be considered long-term sick.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "fab11da0d28803938c922f8b714bfd3421cbc88030197dbf5607ca3fcc329792" }, { "source": "Acas: irregular hours and part-year workers", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/irregular-hours-and-part-year-workers", "figure": "6 years", "value": 6, "unit": "year", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "These must include holiday that is carried over. Employers must keep these records for at least 6 years from the date they were made.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "1713b720d718377b62eb15e1427758dd41f2e914b3c2a4abb89f87aa28d9d3cb" }, { "source": "nidirect: holiday entitlements (Northern Ireland)", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/holiday-entitlements", "figure": "5.6 weeks", "value": 5.6, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "you are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks paid annual leave (28 days for someone working five days a week)", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6a4c51e5d8cddf8d829111c713d8205d1665cc29b88ac6376859da1f23409918" }, { "source": "GOV.UK holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-holiday-entitlement-and-holiday-pay-calculations/holiday-pay-and-entitlement-reforms-from-1-january-2024", "figure": "4 weeks", "value": 4, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "maintaining the current rates of holiday pay where 4 weeks is paid at normal rate of pay and 1.6 weeks paid at basic rate of pay, whilst retaining the 2 distinct pots of leave (see section 6.1)", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "f306fb56de6762770255ed43ff5c3b7a191e8299951b93605d531e6f6d294941" }, { "source": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 13A (additional leave)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/13A", "figure": "28 days", "value": 28, "unit": "day", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "(3) The aggregate entitlement provided for in paragraph (2) and regulation 13(1) is subject to a maximum of 28 days.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "804d69dc11c4f184462fb7ced10d82b208191e76fa490d02dabbcd422eaf4881" }, { "source": "Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1426)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1426/made", "figure": "28 days", "value": 28, "unit": "day", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "(4) But a worker cannot, in any leave year, accrue more than 28 days of annual leave under this regulation.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "4fb7a3daf7a6f79e7a20a9e17243402cdac6a92403c76c2c182f409d74719e81" }, { "source": "Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1426)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1426/made", "figure": "30 minutes", "value": 30, "unit": "minute", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "(5) Where the amount of annual leave that has accrued in a particular case includes a fraction of an hour, the fraction is to be treated as zero if it is less than 30 minutes and one hour if it is 30 minutes or more than 30 minutes.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "4fb7a3daf7a6f79e7a20a9e17243402cdac6a92403c76c2c182f409d74719e81" }, { "source": "Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1426)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1426/made", "figure": "12.07%", "value": 12.07, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "Calculate 12.07% of the number of hours arrived at under Step 1 to find the number of hours of annual leave that the worker accrues during each week of the sick leave or statutory leave.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "4fb7a3daf7a6f79e7a20a9e17243402cdac6a92403c76c2c182f409d74719e81" }, { "source": "Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1426)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1426/made", "figure": "52 weeks", "value": 52, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "the period of 52 weeks ending with the day before the day on which the worker started the sick leave or statutory leave, or", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "4fb7a3daf7a6f79e7a20a9e17243402cdac6a92403c76c2c182f409d74719e81" }, { "source": "Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1426)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1426/made", "figure": "104 weeks", "value": 104, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "(3ZG) For the purposes of paragraph (3ZF) no account is to be taken of remuneration in weeks preceding the period of 104 weeks ending—", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "4fb7a3daf7a6f79e7a20a9e17243402cdac6a92403c76c2c182f409d74719e81" }, { "source": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: booking time off", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off-", "figure": "5.6 weeks", "value": 5.6, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "Almost all people classed as workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year (known as statutory leave entitlement or annual leave).", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "7a6d6d2959e4abcdc4f428f6d53bff5946154d9caf367a398a62ec4992be2964" }, { "source": "Acas: carrying over holiday", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/carrying-over-holiday", "figure": "4 weeks", "value": 4, "unit": "week", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "If a worker is on long-term sick leave, they can carry over a maximum of 4 weeks' holiday entitlement.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "1f2829eb213cc49596bf443b5f1ce43d24637f209aae9b27e8f1ff53418c11dd" }, { "source": "Acas: carrying over holiday", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/carrying-over-holiday", "figure": "18 months", "value": 18, "unit": "month", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "quote": "They must use it within 18 months starting from the end of the leave year in which they accrued it.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "1f2829eb213cc49596bf443b5f1ce43d24637f209aae9b27e8f1ff53418c11dd" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: entitlement", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: entitlement detail", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: holiday pay", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay-1", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "GOV.UK Calculate your holiday entitlement", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK Bank holidays", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 13 (annual leave)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/13", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 15A (first year accrual)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/15A", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 16 (payment for leave)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/16", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Acas: bank holidays and Christmas", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/bank-holidays-and-christmas", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Acas: asking for and taking holiday", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/asking-for-and-taking-holiday", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "nidirect: bank holidays (Northern Ireland)", "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidays", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights", "label": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: entitlement", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement", "label": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: entitlement detail", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/holiday-pay-1", "label": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: holiday pay", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off-", "label": "GOV.UK Holiday entitlement: booking time off", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement", "label": "GOV.UK Calculate your holiday entitlement", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays", "label": "GOV.UK Bank holidays", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/13", "label": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 13 (annual leave)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/13A", "label": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 13A (additional leave)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/15A", "label": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 15A (first year accrual)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/16", "label": "Working Time Regulations 1998 reg 16 (payment for leave)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1426/made", "label": "Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1426)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-holiday-entitlement-and-holiday-pay-calculations/holiday-pay-and-entitlement-reforms-from-1-january-2024", "label": "GOV.UK holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/carrying-over-holiday", "label": "Acas: carrying over holiday", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/bank-holidays-and-christmas", "label": "Acas: bank holidays and Christmas", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/asking-for-and-taking-holiday", "label": "Acas: asking for and taking holiday", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/irregular-hours-and-part-year-workers", "label": "Acas: irregular hours and part-year workers", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/holiday-entitlements", "label": "nidirect: holiday entitlements (Northern Ireland)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidays", "label": "nidirect: bank holidays (Northern Ireland)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave", "label": "GOV.UK taking sick leave", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/contents", "label": "legislation.gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 8 of the 19 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 11 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in week (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 117 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per rule per jurisdiction (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) quoted verbatim from the authority with its effective date and the regulation it comes from, joined so the calculator's every step has a citation: the 5.6-week entitlement and the 28-day cap, the 12.07% accrual rate for irregular-hours and part-year workers for leave years from 1 April 2024, the first-year one-twelfth monthly accrual, the four-week/1.6-week split and what each may be carried over as, the 18-month long-term-sick carry-over window, the 52-week pay reference period and the 104-week look-back, rolled-up holiday pay, and the notice arithmetic (twice the days requested; twice plus one for employer-imposed leave). The derivation nobody publishes is the CHANGED-SINCE: every rule tracked against the previous read so a leave-year turn or a regulation amendment is dated news rather than a silent edit.", "embed": "

4 to 104 week

6 published figures, UK Statutory Leave Rules, across 6 sources, read 7 November 2026

Source: leavetracker.uk UK Statutory Leave Rules
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