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title: "Guide: Holiday entitlement"
slug: "guide-holiday-entitlement"
updated: 2026-06-10T11:18:59Z
published: 2026-06-10T11:18:59Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/guide-holiday-entitlement"
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# Guide: Holiday entitlement

Within your organisation, there may be different terms and conditions between groups of employees for annual leave. You may therefore need multiple holiday entitlement schemes to establish full time entitlement. A particular scheme can then be applied to an individual employee.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note**: Although the starting point of an entitlement is the full time, full year entitlement for all employees, a pro rata calculation may then be applied to this full entitlement for part time employees and for starters and leavers within an entitlement period.

The steps involved with managing holiday entitlement are:

- [Create the attendance categories](/iq/docs/how-do-i-add-absence-categories-to-the-lookup-table)
- [Create the holiday entitlement scheme](/iq/docs/how-do-i-create-holiday-entitlement-schemes)
- [Assign the holiday entitlement to the employee](/iq/docs/how-do-i-record-absence-entitlements-for-individual-all-employees)
- [Create the holiday entitlements for the next year in bulk](/iq/docs/how-do-i-generate-holiday-entitlement-records-for-a-new-year)
- [Update the next year's holiday entitlements](/iq/docs/how-do-i-create-holiday-entitlement)g where necessary, using the Entitlement Records pane