Source
Entitlements & German leave rules — found from sitemap — BrightHR
Checked for BrightHR on 28 Oct 2026
- Page
- https://www.brighthr.com/articles/leave-and-absence/annual-leave/holiday-carry-over/
- Checked
- 28 Oct 2026, 16:44 UTC
- How we may use it
- Public page, crawling permitted
Technical details
- type
- page
- http status
- 200
- content hash
- sha256:850d0b9830cf3019199ea97e67bf41f87ba4bcb5ccb10d48ebaf312f25600ad0
- permission
- robots_ok
- screenshot
- Screenshot on file (internal exhibit, not published)
Cited by
Facts read from this source
-
Holiday carryover rule Report an error
“The law says the most that can be carried over, in normal circumstances, is 1.6 of their working weeks.”
-
Sick leave carryover Report an error
“Legally, the employee can carry over a maximum of 4 weeks for a period of 18 months if they have been unable to take annual leave because of sickness.”
-
Maternity carryover Report an error
“Employees on maternity leave still accrue holiday days. This means that if they haven’t taken any or all their holiday entitlement in this time, it will carry-over to the following year.”
-
Statutory entitlement Report an error
“This includes all or any of their 5.6 weeks' statutory holiday entitlement.”
-
Carryover not legally required Report an error
“As an employer you are not legally required to allow the carry-over of annual leave. However, some businesses do opt to include this within employment contracts.”
-
Holiday planner features Report an error
“Accept or deny holiday requests in seconds Keep track of who’s in and who’s out with a 360-degree view of your team’s leave calendar Save yourself time with automatic annual leave calculations with each new working year Track employee annual leave balance and encourage time off to prevent burnout”
-
Demo free Report an error
“Book a free demo with the BrightHR team today to discover how our staff holiday planner can make managing annual leave as simple as possible.”
-
Registered office Report an error
“Registered Office (UK): Bright HR Limited, The Peninsula, Victoria Place, Manchester, M4 4FB. Registered in England and Wales No: 09283467.”
-
Fca regulated Report an error
“Bright HR Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in respect of non-investment insurance products. FCA Number: 1042221”
-
Regions Report an error
“BrightHR in your region United Kingdom Ireland Australia Canada New Zealand”
-
Customer count Report an error
“Ready to join over 120,000 companies around the world loving BrightHR?”
-
Products list Report an error
“HR software Health & safety software Clocking-in Employment law advice HR guides & templates Payroll software Wellbeing & Employee support Expense tracker”
Scores citing this record
- The Data Protection Officer Entitlements & German leave rules
- The Data Protection Officer Requests, approvals & team calendar
- The Data Protection Officer Sick leave, eAU & continued pay
- The HR IT Integrator Entitlements & German leave rules
- The HR IT Integrator European sovereignty
- The HR IT Integrator Pricing transparency
- The Payroll Accountant Entitlements & German leave rules
- The Payroll Accountant Requests, approvals & team calendar
- The Payroll Accountant European sovereignty
- The Payroll Accountant Pricing transparency
- The Skeptic Entitlements & German leave rules
- The Skeptic Requests, approvals & team calendar
- The Skeptic European sovereignty
- The Managing Director Entitlements & German leave rules
- The Managing Director Pricing transparency
- The Team Lead Entitlements & German leave rules
- The Team Lead Requests, approvals & team calendar
- The Team Lead Pricing transparency