Can holiday accrue during periods of parental leave?
A period of absence on parental leave does not affect entitlement to paid annual leave under the Working Time Regulations. The booklet A Guide to the Working Time Regulations[5] provides more information on the entitlement to statutory holiday leave. The accrual of additional contractual holiday entitlement during parental leave is a matter for agreement between the parties concerned (or their representatives). 2.6 Returning to work after parental leave An employee is entitled to return to the same job as before if the parental leave was for four weeks or less and either an isolated period of leave or the last of two or more consecutive periods of statutory leave which didn’t include any period of additional maternity leave or additional adoption leave. After a period of parental leave of more than four weeks or parental leave which was preceded or followed by consecutive periods of leave which included a period of additional maternity leave or additional adoption leave the employee is
