How do I work out a nannies pro rated holiday entitlement?

[goingbacktowork]

Thanks for reading. I understand the concept of pro rating holiday entitlement as I work part time myself. However mine is worked out on a days per week schedule (i.e. if you work 3 days a week you get 3/5 ths of a full time workers holiday entitlement). How does this work for nannies though? My nanny will probably be working 3 days a week being paid per hour. They are long days though (about 11 hours). Is she entitled to 3/5ths of full time entitlement or more. How does it work as the nannies typical working week is not 35 hours (if the nanny were to work full time) but more like 58 hours. Also would it make any difference to her entitlement if she worked the 33 hours over 4 days? I do not want to short change the nanny I am just trying to work out how I calculate this. Thanks.

If she would normally work 33 hours in a week would you not pay her 33 hours for each 'week' of holiday. Then a proporionate amount for any shorter periods off - so 11 hours for 1 day; 10.5 for a half a day etc.

Well that's what I would do anyway.

HTH

5.5 for half a day clearly

Holidays are calculated either in Days or Hours. So changing from 3 to 4 days a week will make a difference in Number of Days, though if the hours remain the same then if calculated as Number of Hours, the number of hours would not change.

Full time entitlement is 5.6 weeks of holiday.
So you multiply the number of days worked per week by 5.6. So if 3 days that is 5.6 x 3 = 16.8 days. The .8 is a bit awkward, can be easiest to round up to whole days... so 17 days. You CANNOT round down.

The BusinessLink Holiday Calculator will do you calculations in Days or Hours.

5.6 weeks can include Bank Holidays. So if your nannies working day falls on a bank holiday and you don't need them to work, then you can insist that they take that day as part of their annual leave.

If she works three days a week then she has 17 days holiday. Do you pay her the same every week? If so surely it doesn't matter what the actual hours are.

If she will be working 11 hours a day on each day that she works, then work it out as 3/5ths. If her hours per day differ eg Mon she does 11hours, Tues she does 9hours and Thurs she does 13hours or she will work shorter days term-time and longer days in school holidays, then calculate holiday in hours.

"Casual or irregular working patterns
If you work casually or irregular hours it may well be easiest to calculate the holiday entitlement that accrues (that is accumulates) as hours are worked. The holiday entitlement of 5.6 weeks is equivalent to 12.07 per cent of the hours you worked. The 12.07 per cent figure is:

5.6 weeks' holiday, divided by 46.4 weeks (being 52 weeks - 5.6 weeks) multiplied by 100 = 12.07 per cent

The 5.6 weeks have to be excluded from the calculation as you would not be present during the 5.6 weeks in order to accrue annual leave. For example, if you had worked 10 hours, you would be entitled to 72.6 minutes' paid holiday:

12.07 per cent x 10 hours = 1.21 hours = 72.6 minutes

The holiday entitlement is just over seven minutes for each hour worked."

Taken from here