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My brother's wife started up in business towards the end of April last year. She has one employee. They work seven days a week (40 hours in total). The only time off the pair of them have had is two weeks of at Christmas. How much holiday entitlement is the employee due?

I've been on Business Link and put the figures into their calculator and it comes up with 216.2 hours (+) . But 40 hours x 5.6 weeks = 224 hours. What am I missing?
(+) I changed the dates on their calculator to make sure a whole year was allowed for.

The employee isn't bothered about the holidays and would take the money instead of the holiday. There isn't a dispute or anything. My brother's wife just wants to know what she should pay her extra to make up for her not taking the holidays.

Are they allowed to do this? They are both agreeable to it.

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-- Edited by Maxholt on Thursday 25th of March 2010 07:42:31 AM

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I'm with you on this one Peasie...has to be 5.6 multiplier, cannot think where the 7.8 hours has gone on the Business Link calculator.

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Whats a holiday?

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The holiday entitlement also includes all the bank holidays so if she automatically has those off, they can come off the holiday entitlement.

-- Edited by Zoe on Thursday 25th of March 2010 09:12:21 AM

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Morning Shaun,

Life's one big holiday! I managed a week in Kent last year and a fair few sundays off too!

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Morning Rob,

Did Anna call you?

Sundays are forgivable but a whole week in Kent! What a slacker.

I think that I've been my own boss for so long now (since 1990) that the idea of taking time out by choice is just a totally alien concept.

I last went to Thailand in 2007. Built a report for the bank whilst there and my reading material was the Auditing Practices Board Standards and Guidance.... How sad is that! Had all of the identifying features of a holiday but I was both studying and being paid whilst I was there.





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Ah a busman's holiday...but a pretty place to have one!

Just got off the phone from Anna, she is going to email me some info. She was really helpful and I shall be going back to the client with a quote. Her estimate was very reasonable but it is based on me getting the books in good order...so the fee may go up! Thanks for the contact Shaun.

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No Probs Rob, she's definitely the cleverest person that I know... I really can't work out how she remembers so much... Whenever I talk to her it just reminds me why chartered accountants get paid so much more than we mere mortals.




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Yes and she sounded normal too! Do you outsource most of the work you are not allowed to do to her firm? Her estimate was right in the middle of where I hoped it might be and dreaded it could be, so I think we should be able to get the job....unless the client actually requires a full audit. I'll keep you posted. Anna said she is based in Lichfield, is that where you are too? My biggest payroll client has five peugeot franchise dealerships, one of which is in Lichfield, Anna said she had bought a car from there some years ago ( I think maybe she buys from a more upmarket garage nowadays!!)

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Hi Rob,

her offices are actually in a converted monastery between the towns of Rugeley and Lichfield. Very upmarket practice but small enough not to have to pass massive costs on to the clients.

I'm based in Hednesford which is close to Cannock and only a couple of Miles from Rugeley which is where my boys going to be going to secondary school so when I move up to premises they will be in Rugeley close to Anna's offices.

I would always trust her with any client that I could not handle myself.

She's not actually my accountant but that's only because she's my best mate and it would be unethical to put her in a position of advocacy.

Hard to tell where she shops for cars as she has a different one every time that I see her. I'm pretty sure that it's a SAAB or Volvo convertible at the moment. Keep telling her to buy BMW's but she doesn't seem to have listened to me yet.



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I must admit I prefer Mercedes, we bought one in October (well we will have it for three years) but as I bring Misty in to the office I have the Passat Estate and my partner gets to drive in luxury. Funny that I'm allowed to drive it at weekends if there is any alcohol likely to be consumed!

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Neil


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Should get a Toyota. Ours just keeps going.

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lol.

Mercs are definitely a car further up the food chain but the one thing that puts me off is the number of them I see broken down at the side of the motorway (second only to the new Fiat Punto).

I think that it's one of those cars where if you have a good one they go forever but if you get a bad one you really know about it.

Actually, it's only C class that I see broken down. I've yet to see an E class with an AA van next to it.

I do a lot of motorway driving so I swear by beemers. I've got two of them, one's now done 390,000 miles and its STILL on the same clutch and suspension as when I bought it new! in fact, the only issue I ever had with it was a blown cylinder head gasket at 118k and the garage sorted it out free!

The newer one has done 162k miles and still feels tight and responsive. I bought that one second hand in part ex for the Rover 75 that I had... Worst purchase I ever made. The 75's look beautiful but the build quality was absolute rubbish. I did 105k in it and it was on it's last legs.

In my mind I tagged the wasted price of the Rover (18k) onto the price of the BMW, took off the part ex (2k!!!) and that's what I've worked the cost of the beemer against. So the costing came out more or less to the price I would have paid had I bought the beemer new rather than wasting my money on the Rover.

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Hi Neil,

whenever I'm in mud hut territory in North East Thailand I only drive Honda's or Toyota's as hire cars as no matter how far off the beaten track you go you just know that they aren't going to break down on you.

Did you see when top gear tried to destroy the Toyota? The burned it, drowned it, basically absolutely trashed it and even when it was a burnt out shell it still kept starting first time! I just don't think that its physically possible to kill it without the use of a crushing machine!



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Actually, I love Audis. I've had 2, the last being a 4.2 V8 which I had converted to LPG but it and I consumed suspension and tyres like mad. I'm more a sedate diesel man now.

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My last car was a Rover 75. I was told how great the quality was with the BMW transmission. the gear box failed after a couple of years and I couldn't get a recon one for about 4 months and couldn't get a new one for less than the car was worth once it was fitted! that went p/ex towards the Merc I never drive!

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And of course the other major flaw with the rover 75's. £160 a tyre!!!

I know that you can get Mitchellins cheaper for them but I refuse to have them on my cars as I prefer to be able to stop in the wet!

Definitely think that you made a move in the right direction with the Merc. Did you go for the C or E class rob?

My Beemers are just 3 series. Love the manual box especially on the older one which is an old E30 shape thats M-Tech prepared (upgraded suspension, stage 2 head, sports box, etc. but not a full M3). That one gets garage space and the newer one just gets to sit on the drive.

We've gone totally off piste with this thread again. Sorry.

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My friends hubby had a company Merc E class new one, its already broken down twice and been back to the garage for a week!!!!

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It'st he E class Avantgarde. But it was in the garage for a month, apparently Mercedes outsourced the jets (?) to a different subcontractor and after 3 or 4 thousand miles they all break down! When we got towed to the dealer there were 21 59 plate E classes outside the workshops, no idea how many were inside. We drove around in a newer E class for a whole month which was rented to us from Nationwide with Mercedes picking up the cost, goodness knows how much that has all cost them and if they are going to recover from the sub-contractor I would think it would put them out of business.

I think your friends husband may have had the same problem Amanda.

Funnily enough I don't really care that much about cars, but it is nice if they get from a to b in reasonable comfort!

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