{
  "table": "vacation-pay-calculator-rules",
  "schema": 1,
  "version": "2026-11-11.2",
  "title": "Paid holiday pay rules: France and Great Britain",
  "doc": "Rule table read by the vacation-pay-calculator handler (ctx.data['vacation-pay-calculator-rules']). Percentages are percentage points (12.07 means 12,07 %); days and weeks are plain numbers. France (Code du travail, private-sector employees): the paid-leave indemnity is the higher of one tenth of the gross pay of the reference period (increased in proportion when the leave due is longer than the legal leave), in proportion to the days taken, and the pay the employee would have earned at work (maintien de salaire). Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales; Working Time Regulations 1998): a week's pay for each week of leave, a week's pay averaged over up to 52 paid weeks when pay varies, and, for irregular-hours and part-year workers in leave years beginning on or after 1 April 2024, holiday accrued at 12.07 % of hours worked and optional rolled-up holiday pay of 12.07 % of pay. Northern Ireland has its own regulations (Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016: 12-week reference period, no 12.07 % rules) and is not covered. Table-level valid_from/valid_until bound the period during which this version may be relied on: British employment law usually changes in April, so the table must be reviewed before 1 April 2027. Entry-level valid_from is the date from which the rule in its current wording is in force (null valid_until: in force until changed). source_url is the primary source, source_date that source's own date (the version date of a legal text, or the last update of a guide), retrieved the date the value was read there.",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-11-11",
  "reviewed_by": "apps-calculators agent (automated research against official sources, 2026-11-11: Légifrance, Service-Public.fr, legislation.gov.uk, GOV.UK); independent verification 2026-11-11 added the proportional tenth for leave longer than the legal leave (Cass. soc. 13 November 2025); owner review pending",
  "valid_from": "2026-11-11",
  "valid_until": "2027-03-31",
  "locale_country": {
    "fr-FR": "FR",
    "en-GB": "GB"
  },
  "countries": {
    "FR": {
      "name": {
        "fr-FR": "France",
        "en-GB": "France"
      },
      "currency": "EUR",
      "scope": {
        "fr-FR": "Salariés du secteur privé relevant du code du travail. Les assistantes maternelles et les salariés du particulier employeur suivent leur convention collective ; les agents publics ne sont pas concernés.",
        "en-GB": "Private-sector employees under the French Code du travail. Childminders and household employees follow their own collective agreement; public servants are not covered."
      },
      "tenth_rule": {
        "id": "fr-tenth-rule",
        "share": 10,
        "rule": "The leave indemnity is one tenth (10 %) of the total gross pay received during the reference period, including the previous year's leave indemnity and the pay for periods treated as work; for the days actually taken it is in proportion to the days taken over the days acquired (Service-Public worked example: (24 000 / 10) × (12 / 30) = 960 €).",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3141-24, I",
        "valid_from": "2024-04-24",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033008579",
        "source_date": "2024-04-24",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F33359"
        ]
      },
      "extra_days": {
        "id": "fr-extra-days",
        "rule": "When the leave due is longer than the leave of L3141-3 (days given by a collective agreement, an accord or the contract), the tenth is worked out in proportion to the leave actually due: with 36 jours ouvrables instead of 30, the tenth × 36/30 (Cour de cassation, chambre sociale, 13 November 2025, n° 24-12.747, published in the Bulletin). The calculator asks for those extra days, included in the days acquired, and works out the tenth for all the days as tenth × days acquired ÷ (days acquired − extra days). No figure is held: the ratio comes from the days entered.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3141-24, I, last paragraph; Cass. soc., 13 November 2025, n° 24-12.747",
        "valid_from": "2024-04-24",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/juri/id/JURITEXT000052587299",
        "source_date": "2025-11-13",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033008579"
        ]
      },
      "salary_kept": {
        "id": "fr-salary-kept",
        "rule": "The indemnity may not be lower than the pay the employee would have received had they worked during the leave (maintien de salaire); the employer pays the more favourable of the two amounts. The employer may count the actual hours of the month (the method the courts prefer), or the actual or average number of working days (jours ouvrables or jours ouvrés). This table holds no figure for it: the calculator asks for the month's working days.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3141-24, II",
        "valid_from": "2024-04-24",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F33359",
        "source_date": "2026-02-06",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033008579"
        ]
      },
      "acquisition": {
        "id": "fr-acquisition",
        "days_per_month": 2.5,
        "max_days": 30,
        "max_days_ouvres": 25,
        "rule": "2.5 working days (jours ouvrables) per month of actual work with the same employer, at most 30 jours ouvrables (5 weeks) a year; a fraction of a day is rounded up to the next whole day (L3141-7). Counted in jours ouvrés (5 a week), a full year is 25 days.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3141-3 and L3141-7",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000033020810/",
        "source_date": "2016-08-10",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2258",
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F33359"
        ]
      },
      "sick_leave": {
        "id": "fr-sick-leave",
        "pay_share": 80,
        "days_per_month": 2,
        "max_days": 24,
        "rule": "During sick leave that is not work-related, an employee builds up 2 jours ouvrables a month, at most 24 a reference period (L3141-5-1), and the pay for those periods counts in the tenth rule at 80 % of the pay associated with them (L3141-24, I, 4°). Quoted on the page only; the calculator takes the reference pay as entered.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3141-5-1 and L3141-24, I, 4°",
        "valid_from": "2024-04-24",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033008579",
        "source_date": "2024-04-24",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2258"
        ]
      },
      "reference_period": {
        "id": "fr-reference-period",
        "from": "06-01",
        "to": "05-31",
        "rule": "Leave is built up from 1 June of the previous year to 31 May of the current year, unless a collective agreement sets other dates (1 April to 31 March for employers in a congés payés fund, such as building and entertainment).",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. R3141-4",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2258",
        "source_date": "2026-04-30",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      }
    },
    "GB": {
      "name": {
        "fr-FR": "Grande-Bretagne",
        "en-GB": "Great Britain"
      },
      "currency": "GBP",
      "scope": {
        "fr-FR": "Angleterre, Écosse et pays de Galles (Working Time Regulations 1998). L’Irlande du Nord a ses propres règles et n’est pas couverte.",
        "en-GB": "England, Scotland and Wales (Working Time Regulations 1998). Northern Ireland has its own regulations and is not covered."
      },
      "statutory_leave": {
        "id": "gb-statutory-leave",
        "weeks": 5.6,
        "max_days": 28,
        "normal_rate_weeks": 4,
        "rule": "4 weeks (regulation 13) plus 1.6 weeks (regulation 13A) of paid leave a year, at most 28 days: 3 days a week gives 16.8 days, 6 days a week still gives 28. For regular-hours workers the 4 weeks are paid at the normal rate (including commission, regular overtime and payments for length of service or qualifications) and the 1.6 weeks at least at the basic rate.",
        "legal_basis": "Working Time Regulations 1998, regs 13, 13A and 16(3ZA)",
        "valid_from": "2009-04-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/13A",
        "source_date": "2024-01-01",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights",
          "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/16"
        ]
      },
      "reference_period": {
        "id": "gb-reference-period",
        "weeks": 52,
        "lookback_weeks": 104,
        "rule": "Where pay varies, a week's pay is the average over the last 52 weeks in which pay was paid, going back no further than 104 weeks; a worker employed for fewer than 52 complete weeks uses the complete weeks they have.",
        "legal_basis": "Working Time Regulations 1998, reg 16(3)(e) and (f); Employment Rights Act 1996, ss 221 to 224",
        "valid_from": "2020-04-06",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/16",
        "source_date": "2025-04-01",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/calculating-holiday-pay-for-workers-without-fixed-hours-or-pay"
        ]
      },
      "irregular_accrual": {
        "id": "gb-irregular-accrual",
        "rate": 12.07,
        "round_minutes": 30,
        "max_days": 28,
        "since": "2024-04-01",
        "rule": "Irregular-hours and part-year workers, in leave years beginning on or after 1 April 2024, accrue leave on the last day of each pay period at 12.07 % of the hours worked in it; a fraction of an hour under 30 minutes counts as zero and one of 30 minutes or more as a whole hour; at most 28 days a leave year.",
        "legal_basis": "Working Time Regulations 1998, reg 15B(1), (3)(b), (4) and (5)",
        "valid_from": "2024-04-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/15B",
        "source_date": "2024-01-01",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-holiday-entitlement-and-holiday-pay-calculations/holiday-pay-and-entitlement-reforms-from-1-january-2024"
        ]
      },
      "rolled_up": {
        "id": "gb-rolled-up",
        "rate": 12.07,
        "since": "2024-04-01",
        "rule": "For leave under regulation 15B, holiday pay may be paid as a 12.07 % uplift to the pay for work done, paid at the same time and shown separately on the payslip. The calculator takes 12.07 % of the pay entered and rounds once to the penny; GOV.UK's worked example rounds pay ÷ 100 to the penny first, which can move the result by a few pence.",
        "legal_basis": "Working Time Regulations 1998, reg 16A(2), (3) and (7)",
        "valid_from": "2024-04-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/16A",
        "source_date": "2025-04-01",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-holiday-entitlement-and-holiday-pay-calculations/holiday-pay-and-entitlement-reforms-from-1-january-2024"
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Légifrance: Code du travail, articles L3141-24 to L3141-31 (indemnité de congés payés)",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000033008579",
      "date": "2024-04-24"
    },
    {
      "label": "Légifrance: Code du travail, articles L3141-3 to L3141-9 (droit au congé)",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000033020810/",
      "date": "2016-08-10"
    },
    {
      "label": "Légifrance: Cour de cassation, chambre sociale, 13 November 2025, n° 24-12.747 (the tenth × 36/30 for 36 days of conventional leave)",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/juri/id/JURITEXT000052587299",
      "date": "2025-11-13"
    },
    {
      "label": "Service-Public.fr: Comment est calculée l’indemnité de congés payés du salarié ?",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F33359",
      "date": "2026-02-06"
    },
    {
      "label": "Service-Public.fr: Congés payés du salarié dans le secteur privé",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2258",
      "date": "2026-04-30"
    },
    {
      "label": "legislation.gov.uk: Working Time Regulations 1998, regulations 13A, 15B, 16 and 16A",
      "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/16",
      "date": "2025-04-01"
    },
    {
      "label": "GOV.UK: Holiday entitlement",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights",
      "date": "2026-11-05"
    },
    {
      "label": "GOV.UK: Holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-holiday-entitlement-and-holiday-pay-calculations/holiday-pay-and-entitlement-reforms-from-1-january-2024",
      "date": "2024-04-01"
    },
    {
      "label": "legislation.gov.uk: Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, regulation 20 (12-week reference period; version of 1 January 2024)",
      "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/49/regulation/20",
      "date": "2024-01-01"
    }
  ]
}