{"id":6903,"date":"2026-03-26T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:37:13","slug":"has-your-payroll-accounted-for-an-early-easter-bank-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/has-your-payroll-accounted-for-an-early-easter-bank-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Has your payroll accounted for an early Easter Bank Holiday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure many of us can\u2019t wait for the long Easter weekend to get here. If it feels like it has come early this year, you are correct.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year the bank holiday has come a lot sooner than previous years and will come even earlier next year.<\/p>\n<p>So why does this matter for your payroll process? Businesses that operate a 31 March year-end for holidays will need to account for the additional Bank Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Where a year typically has eight Bank Holidays, the 2026\/2027 year will have 10, due to Good Friday and Easter Monday being captured twice in the same financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank Holidays in England and Wales for 2026\/27 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Friday: 3\u00a0April 2026<\/li>\n<li>Easter Monday: 6\u00a0April 2026<\/li>\n<li>Early May Bank Holiday: 4\u00a0May 2026<\/li>\n<li>Spring Bank Holiday: 25\u00a0May 2026<\/li>\n<li>Summer Bank Holiday: 31 August 2026<\/li>\n<li>Christmas Day: 25\u00a0December 2026<\/li>\n<li>Boxing Day: 26\u00a0December 2026<\/li>\n<li>New Year\u2019s Day: 1 January 2027<\/li>\n<li>Good Friday: 26\u00a0March 2027<\/li>\n<li>Easter Monday: 29\u00a0March 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How will this affect employers?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Working Time Regulations (WTR) 1998 enforces a statutory minimum of 5.6 weeks, or 28 days, of holiday entitlement per year, including Bank Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are not automatically entitled to Bank Holidays and employers can decide how they treat them, especially when there are extra ones in the year.<\/p>\n<p>If you are set to be impacted, review your contracts now to determine the most effective way to proceed in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are unsure about how the Easter bank holidays affect your business, speak to our team<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure many of us can\u2019t wait for the long Easter weekend to get here. If it feels like it has come early this year, you are correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,125],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6904,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}