Holidays, time off, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave

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Calculate holiday entitlement

Holiday calculator to work out statutory holiday leave in days or hours
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.
Holiday entitlement

Holiday entitlement or annual leave - information for employers and workers on entitlement, calculating leave, taking leave, accruing leave and disputes
Taking sick leave

Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals
Check if you can get Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance

Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents

UK bank holidays
- Calendar
- 20 December 2023
- Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Fit note: guidance for patients and employees
- Guidance
- 6 October 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
Calculating holiday entitlement for workers
- Guidance
- 5 November 2019
- Department for Business and Trade and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Statutory Sick Pay: employee fitness to work
- Detailed guide
- 23 November 2022
- HM Revenue & Customs
Fit note: guidance for employers and line managers
- Guidance
- 6 October 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions

Hardworking Brits backed by new employment protections
- 6 April 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
Government slashes up to £1bn a year of business burdens
- 8 November 2023
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
More women to be supported back into STEM jobs in Government-backed training
- 11 February 2023
- Government Equalities Office and Equality Hub
- News story
Millions of Britons to be able to request flexible working on day one of employment
- 5 December 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Press release
Government backs new law to help pregnant women and new parents stay in work
- 21 October 2022
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Press release

Shared Parental Leave (SPL) evaluation
- 4 July 2023
- Department for Business and Trade
- Research
Sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2022
- 26 April 2023
- Office for National Statistics
- National statistics
Sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2021
- 29 April 2022
- Office for National Statistics
- Official statistics
Sickness absence and health in the workplace: understanding employer behaviour and practice
- 20 July 2021
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research
DWP employer engagement survey 2018
- 22 November 2019
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research

Calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers
- 8 November 2023
- Department for Business and Trade and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 09 March 2023
Carer’s leave
- 29 October 2021
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 03 August 2020
Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: extending redundancy protection for women and new parents
- 22 July 2019
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 April 2019
Parental bereavement leave and pay
- 2 November 2018
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 08 June 2018
Fit Note Reform: call for evidence
- 25 April 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care
- Open call for evidence