Do employees get extra pay on a leap year day?
Every four years, many workers find themselves cramming in an extra day of work into an already packed year.
A small price to pay for maintaining the Gregorian calendar’s synchronicity with the celestial movements of our solar system, you might say. But are workers in the UK entitled to extra pay for this extra work? Bethan Mack answers this quadrennial query.
Ultimately it comes down to how your employees are paid. If they are paid on an hourly basis then they would be paid for the hours worked, and as such, would receive payment for any hours worked for the additional day.
However, if your staff receive an annual salary, you would not need to pay an extra day’s pay as you can say that this has been factored into their salary. In these cases, staff are usually paid 1/12th of their annual salary per month regardless of the amount of days in that month.
The next leap day is set to occur this year – Saturday 29th February 2020, to be exact.
Authored by DAS
About DAS Group
The DAS UK Group comprises an insurance company (DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company Ltd), a law firm (DAS Law), and an after the event (ATE) legal expenses division.
DAS UK introduced legal expenses insurance (LEI) in 1975, protecting individuals and businesses against the unforeseen costs involved in a legal dispute. In 2018 it wrote more than seven million policies.
The company offers a range of insurance and assistance add-on products suitable for landlords, homeowners, motorists, groups and business owners, while it’s after the event legal expenses insurance division offers civil litigation, clinical negligence and personal injury products. In 2013, DAS also acquired its own law firm – DAS Law – enabling it to leverage the firm’s expertise to provide its customers with access to legal advice and representation.
DAS UK is part of the ERGO Group, one of Europe’s largest insurance groups (the majority shareholder in ERGO is Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers).