Term time nanny - holiday entitlement?

[car1sberg]

Hello,

I am looking for some help in working out my holiday entitlement if I take a term time only Nanny job. My brain just won't work it out! I've only ever worked for the full 52 weeks per year.

I would be working -

Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm so 36 hours per week, over 40 weeks per year (I think?) and I will get bank holidays off I presume.

I wouldn't want to/be able to take holiday in term time so I presume would be paid for the number of hours, and preferably have it spread over the 12 months like the rest of my pay?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Never assume anything. There is usually only one bank holiday during term time, one of the one's in May, which you may or may not need to work depending on if the parents need you to work.

To calculate holiday you need to know exactly the number of working days in the academic year. It is unlikely to be a total number of whole weeks as schools quite often start back mid-week and don't always finish a term on a Friday. So you need the school calendar. You also need to know if there are any days beyond the school days that you need to work. When I worked for parents who were teachers, the schools they taught at had slightly different start/finish days to the school the children attended, plus as teachers they went in for some days before the children started back.

Once you know all the working days for the entire academic year... then your holiday can be calculated. If you cannot take any holiday during those working days, which would be typical for a term-time position, then your holiday is 12.07% of working time.

So if you worked 200 days per year then you get 24.14 days of paid holiday. Payroll will typically add this to your pay... so in this example you would get paid for 224.14 days per year, with that payment being split over 12 months.

So if you got paid £120 gross per day then £120x224.14=£26,896.80
Which split monthly over a year is £2,241.40 per month.

@nannynick that's fab thank you! Can I ask where the 12.07% comes from?

An employee working all year gets 28 days Statutory holiday.
They work 5 days per week, 52 weeks, so work 260 days per year.
Of those 260 days they get 28 days holiday, so they physically work 232 days.

28/232 = 12.0689, so when holiday is being added on top of the working days, it is 12.07% that is added.

Should you be interested in the other calculation that is used for holiday entitlement, when someone is taking holiday during working time, then it is 10.77%. 28/260=0.10769
So if you worked 200 days and had to take holiday during those 200 days (that would be very unusual for a term time job but anything is possible) then you would do 200*0.1077 to find out how many days had to be taken during those 200 days, 21.54 days.

It gets more complicated if your working days are of different length. Then the calculation would be done in hours.

You don't need to worry about any of this, your employer will probably use a nanny payroll company who will assist your employer with working out these calculations. Given that you are very likely to be restricted to only taking holiday during school holidays, then the 12.07% method is very likely to be used to add on holiday.

If the working hours are very variable, then holiday entitlement is based on the average of the previous 12 weeks. There is am Employment Tribunal case about this, so if that situation applies then best to have a read about the case... some more info here: www.epayme.co.uk/are-you-calculating-holiday-pay-at-12-07-if-so-you-need-to-read-this/