{"id":1837,"date":"2026-06-12T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:11:24","slug":"how-much-paid-holiday-are-employees-entitled-to-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-much-paid-holiday-are-employees-entitled-to-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Paid Holiday Are Employees Entitled to in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most employees in the UK are entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave each year. For someone working 5 days a week, this usually equals 28 days of holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For part-time employees, holiday entitlement is calculated proportionally to the hours or days worked. This is one of the areas where employers often make mistakes, especially when employees work variable schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We help businesses calculate holiday entitlement correctly for all types of workers and ensure their payroll remains fully compliant with UK regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most employees in the UK are entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave each year. For someone working 5 days a week, this usually equals 28 days of holiday. For part-time employees, holiday entitlement is calculated proportionally to the hours or days worked. This is one of the areas where employers often make mistakes,&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-much-paid-holiday-are-employees-entitled-to-in-the-uk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}