Ministry of Justice: Holiday Leave

(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling in the 2017 case of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts & Ors for the calculation of holiday pay entitlement for staff in her Department; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Mike Freer Portrait
Mike Freer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 18th May 2023

The Ministry and its associated arm's length bodies have considered the impact of the judgement referred to. The calculation of holiday pay was subsequently applied to all forms of voluntary overtime and is still in payment across the department and its arm's length bodies.

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