It depends on how much paid leave you give new recruits, how long exactly he has been with you, and where you are in the year from 1 October 2007. Employees now accrue paid leave from the first day of employment, with their rights accruing at one-twelfth of the annual entitlement per month worked, rounded up to the nearest half day. If your new employee was entitled to four weeks and two days (22 days) of annual leave at the time the question was raised, and had been with you for exactly two months, he would be entitled to take off:
22 x 2/12 = 3.66 days off, rounded up to the nearest half day = 4 days.
However, the legal entitlement increases in advance, at the start of each month, so if your employee had been with you for any part of month three, his entitlement would be:
22 x 3/12 = 5.5 days, rounded up to 6 days.
