Employees taking parental leave
An employee's time on parental leave is included as continuous service and taking parental leave does not affect entitlement to annual leave; the employee will still be entitled to a minimum of four weeks of annual holidays. However, the payments for the annual holidays will be affected by the parental leave.
If the employee becomes entitled to annual holidays during parental leave or in the following year, that holiday pay is paid at the rate of their average weekly earnings over the year before the annual holidays. (Note that if the employee has previous entitlements they hadn’t used, then the normal pay provisions still apply to that leave.)