Garden Leave Uk Holiday Entitlement. You're entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid holiday (statutory annual leave) a year. You need to ensure things like private health insurance or similar continue until employment has actually ended.

Under uk law, it has always been possible (and remains advisable) to expressly provide in the contract. But the same rules apply—the employee may not begin new employment until the garden leave period is over. While on garden leave, employees still have the rights of a normal employee of the company and there are a number of activities available to them.

Yes, in the case of maschek v magistratsdirektion der stadt wien, the ecj ruled workers on garden leave are not entitled to pay in lieu of unused holiday which could have been taken during the garden leave period.

There may be further restrictions, and these are included as part of a garden leave contract. Garden leave and holiday pay. Under garden leave pay policies, they’ll receive the statutory amount—the same applies to any benefits they receive. If you take holiday during work time you get paid holiday pay instead of (not as well as) regular pay.