Statutory Holiday Entitlement

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Are you being serious? :shock:

First of all, and in defence of your clients', do you really expect them to digest this information and fully understand it? Surely if they did you would be out of a job!

Secondly, you feel that strongly about it that you post it in two forums and you're intent on knocking your 'peers' and the 'AAT'. Are you expecting a welcome reply?

Thirdly, your post is a statement with no actually justification to what you are saying. Just putting 'its 4.8 weeks and not 24 days' is like saying you say tomato, I say tomatoe.

Perhaps a better way of putting things is to air your views without be derogatory!

However, technically I agree with you, the extremely small article in the magazine isn't 100% 'technically' accurate. Although to be fair on the editor it is under 'News in brief'.

I think maybe you should have put an explanation to your statement and for those that have read this thread and thought 'isn't the opening thread the same thing', the distinction between the two is:

For employees, the statutory holiday entitlement has changed – from 1 October 2007, the entitlement increased from four weeks to 4.8 weeks (24 days if you work a five-day week).

"What does 4.8 weeks mean?"
The regulations express the holiday entitlement as weeks i.e. 4.8 weeks is 4.8 times your usual working week. If you work a five day week, then 4.8 weeks is 24 working days; if you work 4 days a week, then 4.8 weeks is 19.2 working days, and so on.

Regards

Dean

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Dean,

I think thats a bit harsh under the circumstances as I have to admit I too was a bit irritated, though it is a very small item in the magazine.

In order to correct the situation I have e-mailed my contact at Ten Alps publishing (did you know that Bob Geldof owns it?) and asked her to publish a clarification.

My job takes me around the country training and lecturing on this subject and I can confirm that there are a lot of people who think they are entitled to what was 20 days holiday irrespective of the pattern of their working week and employers get caught up in it as well.

Another inaccuracy in the item was that it claims all public holidays are include when only half of the combined bank and public holidays are included now, with the rest following in 2009.

Whilst this post perhaps could have been worded a bit better I do think we have a right to expect an accurate reflection of new legislation in our magazine, dont you?

Ian Whyteside

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Just following on from Neil's comments - lately a lot of the more technical articles are published on the online magazine. One or two of my articles and other contributors technical articles have appeared on the online magazine as opposed to the print magazine.

I agree that the majority of the articles published in the print magazine do generally focus on the CPD aspect of AAT and members profiles which (in my opinion) is not really something particularly relevant to most people - we all know AAT members have to do CPD from 1/1/08 but profiling members every month and ranting about isn't (in my opinion) warranted. Indeed, the holiday entitlement and other statutory changes in law should feature more predominantly than the repetitive CPD policy (which is getting very boring).

Best wishes
Steve

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So we're all agreed that the magazine is rubbish!

Member profiles should take up no more than a 1/3rd page column. It is sometimes interesting to see what other members have done with their careers in order to give people new ideas or see what other options they have to use their qualifications. But three pages!! Accountants lives just aren't that interesting to warrant so much detail!

And why is it that every member profiled puts their achievements solely down to CPD and the joy CPD brings to their lives!

I think, if anything, Council members should be profiled (again, keeping it short) or perhaps details provided as to what all the various committees and sub-committees have been up to.

Technical articles are pretty poor in comparison to other magazines too. In fact, as far as I can see there is only one technical article in this months issue on stamp duty. The first sentence reads:

"You may be surprised to learn that until the introduction of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT), no one was liable to pay stamp duty."

Er.. ok.

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Only comparatively..

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i think you are wrong to say steve articles are poor.i am only a student doing my last paper but i think the articles go into more detail than the others in the magazine and they are easier to understand.our tutor used one of steve article in our audit skill tests.

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Dipak,

I think (or at least I hope) Dean's comments about my articles were said "tongue in cheek". I am glad you have found them useful. I didn't realise tutors accessed them!

Kind regards
Steve

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Dean says some of them are interesting!! :-o

I personally would say that I'm helping those members who sometimes struggle to get to sleep. Read one of my auditing articles and if they don't send you off into the land of nod nothing will!!!!

Dean, your summary of the AAT magazine is spot on! Well said!!!

Let's not forget though how much a life-changing event CPD is and how they remind us of this in every single issue!

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To be honest with you Robert I try to avoid IR35 like the plague.

Thankfully I do not have any clients that fall within the realms of IR 35, however, from my discussions with fellow accountants it can appear that even HMRC have difficulty in applying the regulations governing IR35 (why does that not surprise me? :roll: )