Can anyone help with my part time holiday entitlement?

[BirdIsland]

I've just gone back to work part time (working Mon-Thurs), and I'm so confused by my holiday entitlement. It's now calculated in hours, and HR have got it wrong (by three days!) once, so I'm not exactly confident in their new calculation, but also have no idea how to check it. Does anyone HR-y know how to do it? I know I get credit for bank holidays too, but think I have to use some of that for the actual bank holidays??

Any help appreciated!

For anyone to tell you, they’d need to know how many hours a standard working week is, how many hours you’re contracted to do, and what the FT holiday allowance is.

Standard hours are 35 hours a week, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. I'm working Monday-Thursday, so 28 hours a week.

It's the bank holidays I don't really get, most bank holidays I would usually work (because they fall on a Monday) but obv I can't because the office is shut, then some bank holidays I wouldn't work anyway (Good Friday, and Christmas Day this year).

The government has a helpful calculator:

www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement

Full entitlement in hours is 25*7 = 175hours

(175/35) *28 =140 hours (20 days)

You'll get bank Holidays pro rataed too - How many of them are there?

Usually 8 bank hols in the year

4 fifths of full time hols plus 4 fifths of 8 bank hols. One day has to be taken each bank hol Monday.

HR in my experience generally can't do maths

If 8 bank hols = 7*8 = 56 hours
(56/35)*28 = 44.8 hours for Bank hols

Total 140 +44.8 = 184.8 hours

I work mon to thurs and get bank holidays too . Depends on how many bank holidays in a year fall on a Friday . You are entitled to 80% of bank holidays so 6.4 . This year 3 fell on Fridays so I only got 5 bank holidays so I got an extra day holiday so total of 21 days vs 25 days for full time .

If you're doing 4 days a week, you get 4/5 of the total holiday allowance. The total is 25 + 8(?) bank holidays, so 33. You get 4/5 of 33 days, i.e. 26.4 days. If there is a bank holiday on a Monday, or another day you would normally work, it would come out of the 26.4 days; if it's a Friday, like Good Friday or, this year, Christmas and New Year, you're off already and there's no change.

You don't need to think in terms of hours as you're doing full days.

So, not all bank holidays fall on a Monday... what you need to do is work out the number of hours pro rata based on all hours, then subtract the hours you would use on bank holidays to cover those.

So assuming you work 4 days x 7 hours; and everyone else 5 days x 7 hours:
25 days' hol + 8 bank hols = 33 days
33 divided by 5, times 4 = 26.4 days
So your entitlement is 26.4 days; but say at least 4 bank hols fall on a Monday. You need to use your leave to cover those days - leaving you (in theory) 22.4 days to book as you wish

Clearly - if more than bank hols fall on a Monday, you need more days' leave to cover those.

As others have said its 80 % of annual leave plus 80 % of 8 Bank Holidays so 26.4 days in total. You don't round down so you will get either 26.5 or 27 days (depending on your employers policy on gf days).

When bank Holidays fall on a day you would normally work, (assuming you don't work) it comes out of that allowance otherwise you use them like a standard annual leave day.

Thanks so much everyone, you've all explained it so clearly, I feel a bit stupid not understanding it to start with! I think the way my HR contact explained it confused me so much (particularly given they were wrong the first time) that I just got a complete mental block about it.

General consensus seems to be 26.5 days, so I'm going to go check my HR records now to make sure it's right. Thank you