Entitlement To Holiday Pay and AWR

[waterboy]

My contract which is until 31/12/12, the last two weeks of the year the company is closing for Christmas, I am being extended for the whole of next year.

Am I entitled to pay for that two week period where I am not required?....they have contracted my services until 31/12....I was told that after 13 weeks into a contract I had the same rights as regular workers?

Is this correct?

[stek]

My contract which is until 31/12/12, the last two weeks of the year the company is closing for Christmas, I am being extended for the whole of next year.

Am I entitled to pay for that two week period where I am not required?....they have contracted my services until 31/12....I was told that after 13 weeks into a contract I had the same rights as regular workers?

Is this correct?

Ltd or brolly?

[RasputinDude]

What stek means is "are you being paid by an umbrella company (brolly), or are you invoicing through a limited (Ltd) company (Co) that you are a director and shareholder of?"

[waterboy]

Umbrella Parasol

[Sausage Surprise]

Umbrella Parasol

Ask them...they may have held back some of your pay.

[waterboy]

OK the answer is no, AWR is based at strawberry pickers, not contractors.

Not to worry.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

OK the answer is no, AWR is based at strawberry pickers, not contractors.

Not to worry.

Not true on any level at all

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

If you are through an umbrella company you are entitled to draw on the holiday pay that will have been deducted from you since the start of your employment with them. As far as the AWR is concerned, whilst you are entitled to equal treatment after 12 weeks, the rate that you are being paid should be enough that it is equal to or higher than the total salary, including holiday pay, being paid to an equivalent permanent member of staff

HTH

[Waldorf]

Umbrella Parasol

There was a thread on here a while ago, questioning how Parasol were dealing with their contractors after AWR, but I cannot see that it was ever resolved, it all went quiet.

[PayMatters]

Most umbrella companies class part of your weekly pay each time you're paid as holiday pay so in effect you have been paid it already and normally won't be paid anything if you're not working. If you look at a normal payslip you will see if part of your pay is described as holiday pay.