Part time employee holiday

[Dee198600]

Hi, I am hoping someone can shed some light on how holiday works for part time employees. I have recently returned to work from Maternity leave and have been allocated a holiday entitlement for 2023. All full time employees are entitled to 25 days leave plus bank holidays. I work Mondays, Thursdays & Fridays and as a result am only entitled to 12 days next year - it has been explained to me that this is due to bank holidays having been deducted. If this is correct then I will of course have to accept this, but it feels like the only way I can get full holiday entitlement of 5 weeks is if I book holiday on a bank holiday week, which would mean mostly only booking holiday in first half of the year. I would be grateful for your thoughts on whether this is correct? Thanks in advance, Dee :)

I’m not 100% sure but I think You should be entitled to half what a full timer gets, so 12.5 days plus 4 bank holidays. Working Mondays and Fridays you will have to use some of your leave entitlement for the bank holidays you don’t get.

Your leave should also be expressed in hours as you are part time.

I work part time, Monday, Tuesday full days and Wednesday AM and have to use more of my leave for bank hols than someone working the end of the week as the majority fall on a Monday.

your 12 days, because you work 3 days a week, will give you 4 weeks off.

www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement

By law, you're entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid holiday ('statutory annual leave') a year.
Your 5.6 weeks' statutory holiday is usually made up of:
20 days = 4 weeks

• 8 days (which can be the year's bank holidays) = 1.6 weeks

You get the same allowance of days to allow you to take full weeks, yes, but yours are more limited.

When I was in charge of part timers, I offered them the opportunity to move their bank holiday days to another day in the week, but an employer isn't obliged to.

Sorry, just realised you don’t work half the week do you! I was basing it on my own hours. 🤦‍♀️

It's because you work Mondays & Fridays and the majority of bank holidays are on those days-if full time is 5 days you get 60% of 33 days which is 19.8 days. & then 7 days off for bank holidays (the only bh in 2023 that isn't a monday or friday is boxing day on a tuesday) I make it you should have 13 though as they should round up...

Yes that's correct. I'm in similar position.
But if you book Monday off / on a bank holiday week you are away from work for 6 days using one day of holiday.

It sounds more or less right although possibly you should have an extra day or half day. Assuming a full timer works 5 days a week and that your 3 days are full days, you should get 3/5 of the holiday entitlement a full timer gets. A full timer will get 34 days in 2023 (25 days plus 9 bank holidays - one extra for the coronation). Therefore you should get 20.4 days. However as this includes bank holidays a day is used up each time there is a bank holiday. There are 8 bank holidays on your working days so 8 of your holiday days are used up leaving you 12.4. Sounds like your employer has rounded down to 12 but most would round up to 12.5 or 13.

Mondays and Fridays are the worst days to work as a part timer for this reason.

I work 3 days a week and yes this is correct. It works out fine, that is 4 full weeks you can book off plus with all the bh next year you'll have loads of time off.

I believe also as you have to take bh as holiday youbare entitled to actually work bh and take the time off at another date. I could be wrong but check with HR.

It does work out that you have exactly the same time off as someone who works same hours as you but say Tue wed and thu. They just have more flexibility around when they can book their days off.

I work 3 days a week and get 22 days leave. Mostly because I don’t work Mondays or Fridays because of the BH reason.