I'm starting a job in 2 weeks time. I've never worked part-time before and just cannot get my head round how much holiday I will get and I NEED to know because of childcare and school holidays etc.
So I phoned up HR and this very nice woman threw some figures at me and sped through her calculations but I couldn't make head nor tail of them. And then even though I asked her twice I am still befuddled about Bank/Public Holidays.
I wonder if any kind MN bod could extrapolate the formula that might have been used to come up with the rates she quoted me:
Firstly the holiday allowance for FULL-TIME workers is 26 days and In addition there is a Bank Holiday allowance of 6 days
I will be working 18.5hrs a week over 4 days. I am contracted to work Mon-Thurs. The service I work in will be shut on Bank Holidays/Public Holidays.
The HR person deduced the following:
My pro-rata holiday allowance based on an 18.5hr week = 96.5hrs
MY pro-rata Bank Holiday allowance based on an 18.5hr week = 22.5hrs
How did she come up with those figures?!! I think the missing link might be how many hours constitutes FULL-TIME - is it 37hrs, 37.5hrs or 40 hrs. She seemed to use the figure '7' in her calculations - couldn't work out if that meant 7 hours paid a day for a full-time worker (with an unpaid hour for lunch which would make an 8hr day x 5 = 40 hr working week?)
Anyway - my biggest worry is the Bank Holidays. If I can't work on a Bank Holiday because my place of work is closed will I not be paid? As far as I can see the service I work for will be closed for at least 10 public holidays. Will I have to make up the extra time or get my pay docked once I exceed my pro-rata allowance of 22.5hrs?
I just have such a mental block when it comes to these things and feel totally thick at the moment which is not a good feeling when I am about to start my first proper paid job in over 6 years!
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Working out pro-rata holiday entitlement in part time job - please help!
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Goprogo · 18/01/2017 20:03
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