If an employee is “on call” over a day that they would otherwise be on annual leave (e.g. a bank holiday or shut-down period), are they entitled to a day off in lieu, even if they are not called in to work?
For the purposes of this article we are assuming that an employee has an entitlement to 5.6 weeks holiday and although they receive overtime payments (at a rate of pay higher than their basic pay) for any work done outside of normal working…