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Employment law, holidays & leave

This section is all about leave and both employees' and employers' rights with regard to taking time off work and their entitlement to pay when doing so. Employees are entitled to leave whenever absent due to sickness, and are also entitled to a certain number of days off per year to spend at their leisure.

Leave is a broad topic and crosses over with pay, unfair dismissal, employment tribunals and disciplinary procedures. Please see these sections on our site for further information.

Covered in this leave section is:

As well as information on entitlement to holiday in our employment rights page, you may also be interested in our maternity and paternity leave information, which is currently housed within our family law section.

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