Holidays with Pay Act 1938
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to enable wage regulating authorities to make provision for holidays and holiday remuneration for workers whose wages they regulate, and to enable the Minister of Labour to assist voluntary schemes for securing holidays with pay for workers in any industry.
Citation1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 70
Dates
Royal assent29 July 1938
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 2004
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Holidays with Pay Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 70) was legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for paid holidays for working class employees,[1] and was the result of a twenty-year campaign.[2]

The Act was repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004.[a][3]

It led to the popularity of holiday camps such as those run by Butlins[4]

The provisions of the Act have largely been replaced by the European Working Time Directive enacted by statutory instrument 1998/1833 - Working Time Regulations 1998

  1. ^ Schedule 1 Part 8 – Employment

References

  1. ^ "Holidays with Pay Act 1938". Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ Dawson, Sandra (2006). "TCBH Postgraduate Essay Prize Winner for 2006 "Working-Class Consumers and the Campaign for Holidays with Pay"" (PDF). TBCH. Retrieved 31 March 2016.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Statute Laws Repeals Act 2004". Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  4. ^ Jardine, Cassandra (13 August 2009). "Butlins joins the 21st century". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 February 2010.


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