Going back to work 4 days

[faija01]

I am going back to work in a few weeks and asked to go back 4 days. HR have just sent me the paper work but have listed that the day off I have is Monday. My concern is that I don't get the bank holidays. Does anyone how bank holidays work when you are on part time basis.

in theory most companies give you A/L +BH then pro rata them and you use holidays when you do get a BH.

BUT some companies only give you the BH if you work them so get the company policy.

Mondays are good cos you get a long weekend
you should get time back for bank holidays iirc

I thought that you only had to use the BH pro rata if a BH fell on a day that you normally worked? So there are normally 8 BHs each yr, this would be pro rated to 6.5 days for 4 days/wk. This would mean that you'd have your Annual Leave + 6.5 days. Most BHs fall on a Monday, which would mean as you don't work Mondays, that you wouldn't need to use your allocation - thus giving you more holiday to take. Does that make sense?

This is how it works in my company. I don't work Fridays - but if I had my choice again, I wouldn't work Mondays. Maybe have a chat with another part-timer or a friendly HR person at work and see if it would work in a similar way.

Thanks everyone will talk to HR to see what they say.

I work part-time for 3 days a week including Mondays and Fridays, and it's a small business which (so far) has never opened on Bank Holidays so I don't have the option of working them.

This means that I have to count 3/5 of the bank holidays as part of my annual leave. As I need to take as much time off in school holidays (when the bank holidays generally are) because of the family, it works out fairly well, but there isn't a dedicated HR department to work out holidays etc and so I always seem to end up being allocated the same amount of leave as everyone else, then having to "pay back" time by going in on my days off.

It's very stressful, to feel always that you owe time to the bosses.