holiday entitlement

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Hi

Was wondering if someone could offer little bit of advice. Ive just started working part time only 12.5 hours a week, 3 mornings a week.

They give full timers the basic 20 days plus bank hols....could someone advise how you work out holiday entitlement when you are part time? What they have said im entitled to seems rather low compared to other part time roles ive worked.

Thanks in advance

Claire

That will be 20 days + 8 bank hols = 28 days for a F/T employee

If you work 3 mornings you will be entitled to (28/5)*3 working days = 16.8 (where I work we would round that up to 17)

So that's 17 of your working days - ie mornings only.

How does that compare with what you've been told?

At my work, part-timers are allocated their holidays in hours and minutes, instead of days.

You would get 28 * 12.5 / 37 days leave (to pro-rata it. Our normal week is 37 hours) = 9.46 days

Then turned into hours that becomes

9.46 * 7.5 (hours in a normal day)

= 70.95 hours

Which would be 17.7 days if your normal day is 4 hours

yes what mycats said. It might be expressed in hours rather than days, but you are entitled to pro rata the same as full timers get.

If it's in hours I would do a simpler calculation and multiply 12.5 hours a week by 5.6 weeks which is the number of weeks full timers get off. So 12.5 x 5.6 = 70 hours annual leave a year.

This is how i have worked it out

They have told me that i am entitled to 7 days as i work a 3rd of what the full timers do so a 3rd of 20 days would be 7 well 6.7 but rounded up

For the 20 days (not including the bank holidays) that's sort of right - but they have to remember that those are 7 full days you are entitled to, not 7 of your short days!

They've already pro-ratad it by saying you do 1/3 of fulltime. So you get 1/3 as much holiday. But that's in "whole days". So 7 x 7.5 hours (if that's what fulltimers do) = 52.5 hours. Which is about 13 of your length of days. (Plus whatever they do about bank holidays)

They can't pro-rata it twice, which is what they're doing it if they're starting by saying "one third" and then saying "a day's holiday" is one of your short days. It has to be one or the other to be fair.

Does that make any sense?

If you're trying to explain it to them (I'm guessing they don't usually have part-timers and are trying to work it out from scratch?) then get them to turn it into hours instead of whole days, then they'll be able to see how what they give you compares with what they give to full-timers.

Fulltimers get 20 days, which is 150 hours (if they do 7 and a 1/2 hours as fulltimers)

So, you should get 50 hours - but you take them in smaller slices, so you only have to take 4 hours (or 4 1/2 or whatever) every time you take the day off.

www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Timeoffandholidays/DG_10029788

There is an online calculator from the government.

You are entitled to 5.6 weeks off, regardless of how many days you work, your holiday entitlement should allow you 5.6weeks off a year. Whether they include BH or not is up to them (we have 9 this year, usually 8)

If you do as AMumInScotland says, don't forget that full time staff are also entitled to public holidays so their entitlement is actually 28 days.