Re. my holiday allowance?

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I started a new job last June - holiday year runs 1st January to 3st December. I work 3 days a week - 5 hours a day, totalling 15 hours a week.
My colleague works 42.5 hours a week and receives 20 days holiday. I get 7. This means I can only take 2 full weeks off per year, which is really not great for me, being a single parent. It's really difficult to find childcare during the school holidays! Am I right in thinking that this has been worked out wrong? I see where they've got this figure from - I work roughly a third of the hours my colleague does, therefore. I get a third of the holiday days too. But this would be based on full, 8.5 hour days wouldn't it?
Help!!

www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement here is the governement calculator. I've double checked and its definitely 84 hours per year (incl any bank hols)

16.8 days sounds like too many! I'll gladly take it though!!

I think it’s really confusing when everyone goes on about hours.

In my mind, it’s simple:

Colleague works five days.
OP works three days.

Colleague gets four weeks holiday (so will receive the usual pay for five days for each week off).

OP gets four weeks too (receiving her usual pay for three days for each week off).

OP, that 16.8 days included bank holidays so it really isn't that many when you deduct any bank holidays off that would be on your working days.

I work roughly a third of the hours my colleague does, therefore. I get a third of the holiday days too

Disregarding the pro-rating for a moment, do you know that your colleague definitely has the same holiday allowance as you (i.e. the same number of days per year) in their contract?

It's not too many, it's your legal minimum amount. Hope you get it sorted

Easier to work it out in hours rather than days.

I think they have given you seven full days off which will be 10.5 of your days. That sounds right to me.

Where I work for part-time people they give us annual leave in hours and add-on the bank holiday hours too. Then if we take annual leave or a bank holiday is on a working day they deduct hours.. Much simpler if your day is less than a full day.

Doesn't sound right to me at all. I work 2 full days a week, 11 hours each day and get 12 days holiday so 6 weeks holiday.

Or they could just give her 17 of her 5hr days (16.8 rounded up) or 84 hours

This can't be right.
7 days? That's only 2 weeks. This isn't right.

On a very basic calculation, 20 days x 3/5 = 12. As you work 3 days that would be 4 weeks.

I can't believe your 7 days has been calculated correctly.

As you work 3 days that would be 4 weeks.

She doesn't work three days though because she only works 15 hours which is less than two days work.

It's seven full days all 10.5 of your part-time days. It's correct

She works 3 of her own days. Doesnt matter how long they are. She's still entitled to 5.6 weeks of holiday = 16.8 days

Given that you don't work full days it would make more sense to work out annual leave in terms of hours.

Your colleagues 20 days holiday a year is 170 hours of leave.

Roughly a third of that would be 50-55 or so hours.

The company can then say it's a rule you can only take whole days (my company it's whole days or half days but that's not very easy on a 5 hour day!). This would then be about 10 days leave.

That seems a much fairer way of working it out.

No it's not. Why would you work it like that anyway? It makes it harder to calculate how many days to take off if she has a holiday.

Calculation sounds right to me

20 days doesn't take into account bank holidays and op will be entitled to a pro rata amount of them too.

Full time entitlement is probably 28 days which is 5.6 weeks x 5 days. OP is entitled to 5.6 weeks x 3 days = 16.8 days. It doesn't matter how many hours she does, her 'day' is just shorter than a full time day

Does your colleague get extra days for length of service? I know at my place there is an extra Day entitlement added per 10 years of service. Place I worked previously added an extra day for every 5 years of service.

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

It really doesn't matter much what others get as legally she is entitled to the minimum of 5.6 weeks which can be inclusive of bank holidays.

I hope this helps back up what the others have said:

www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

I work 5 mornings a week, and do exactly half the number of hours that the full-timers do.

However, I still get 20 days, but it means 20 mornings, not full days.

Your company is being rather mean. As you work 3 out of 5 days, I think you should get 3/5 holiday entitlement as well, but being paid for the hours you do, obviously.

Woodchuck, that's not the way it's calculated.

She is entitled to the statutory minimum.

My example, was just an example, of say 20 days. Minimum.
She is entitled to minimum plus bank holidays pro rata'd.

Are they taking bank holidays into account as they should do. Your colleague who gets four weeks annual leave presumably gets bank holidays too. If your normal day is on a Monday you will end up with slightly less annual leave that you can choose to take off. None of my days are on a bank holiday so I get the hours (pro rata) added onto my entitlement.

Just send your boss the link to the government calculator.
You are entitled to 17 days holiday which includes any Bank holidays that fall on your working day.
No need to work it out in hours unless you work different hours each day.
It's the law so just be assertive and take what you are due.