Employees are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks’ annual leave under the Working Time Regulations (WTR). For those working a 5 day week they will be entitled 28 days’ leave per year, which can include bank holidays, of which there are usually eight per year.

If employers have worded contracts entitling employees to “20 days’ holiday plus bank holidays”, this could lead to one of two problems, where the holiday year runs from 1 April until 31 March. Either employees receive more bank holidays than their contractual entitlement or less than the statutory minimum.