New part-time job

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I've just been offered a new job.
2 days per week in an office. My days are Monday's and Wednesdays.
In the offer letter it states "25 days holiday per year (plus statutory bank hols) both pro rata due to being part time"

I've worked out (I think) 10 days annual leave, but what does bank hols pro rata mean? As one of my working days will be a Monday - obviously most bank hols fall on this day so if I had to use hols I'd probably only end up with about 3 days left :-(

I've only received the offer letter today, so before I ask my new employer I thought I'd just throw it out here incase any part time or HR peeps are more clued up than me and understand! TIA

Yes, if a FT worker gets 10 bank hols, you’d get 4 days and you would need to use annual leave to cover. That’s the disadvantage of working on a Monday when you’re part time.

You've read it right. I wouldn't work a Monday part time

Yes shite if you work a Monday and you part time. So I'm 0.6 Equivalent to 1 being full time. I get 0.6 allowance of any bank holidays. So we have 8 bank holidays but I only get 4.8 of those so have to make the rest up with my other annual leave. I just changed days and no longer work a Monday so now I get my usual holidays and an extra 4.8 days to take when I want and that's nearly 2 wks holiday for me as I only working 3 days a week.

Not everywhere insists on you taking bank holidays on the day - where I work, with the exception of Christmas and new year, they are added into holidays and taken as and when.

Check with them.

I would look at it differently. A full timer gets 25 days plus 8 bank holidays, another way of saying this is that they get 33 days but management will stipulate that they need to take eight of them on bank holidays.

So you will get 2/5 of the 33 so that is 13.2 days but you will need to use some of those days on any bank holiday that fall on a Monday or Wednesday, your working days. I make it why in 2023, that will be 6 days, so you need to take the 6 out of your allowance and you will have 7.2 left to decide for yourself. Seems ok to me as you only need to to use four days to get a full fortnight off to go away for example.

My friend had this issue with working 2 days a week with one being a Monday as had to use leave to cover monday bank holidays (we dont work bank hol). Manager offered to let her work Tuesday instead when bank holiday monday so she didnt have to use all her leave.

It depends how they use bank holidays, ours are just added to annual leave allowance and can be used when we want, they don't have to be taken on bank holidays.

Where I work part time people get their annual leave in hours plus they add the bank holiday hours on to that. The person has to go on the system then and book the bank hols off. Where I worked before part-time people were given different amounts of annual leave depending in what days of the week they worked .

Super helpful- thankyou!