Working out Annual Leave Entitlement

[GlitterBelle]

I have a Personal Assistant I employ directly for care. I have a payroll company that does everything for me, except work out holidays (the hardest bit for me!)

I really struggle with this kind of thing (hence having a carer!), but anyway, it's my responsibility to work this out.

The complication is her hours have changed part way through the year. She gets the statutory minimum in annual leave which includes Bank Holidays. However, I'm not sure how the bank holidays work - if I'm meant to be taking them off her overall entitlement. (She has the day off if it's bank holiday, by the way, she doesn't work them.)

From 15th September - end of Feb she worked 15.5 hours a week. 4 hours three days, 3.5 one day.

From 1st March - September 2015 she will be working 11.5 hours a week. 4 hours two days, 3.5 one day.

I worked out her entitlement to be 74.4 hours originally, but now she's reduced her hours, I don't know how to work out part-years, and what I'm meant to be doing with bank holidays. (Is it taking them off her overall entitlement if she has the day off?)

So during this year of entitlement she will have 7 days of bank holiday that fall on her working days, 6 of which will fall on a 4 hour day, one a 3.5.

If someone could spell this out for me, I would be most grateful. I'm getting so confused with the calculators and how to sort out bank holidays.

Not sure where 74.4 comes from. Statutory holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks. If she was working 15.5 hours a week her annual entitlement (including bank holidays if she takes them off) would have been 86.8 hours, which I'd round up to 87 hours.

Based on 11.5 hours a week her annual entitlement would be 64.4 hours, which I'd round up to 64.5.

She'll be on the 64.4 entitlement for the next six months, so it will be half of that, 32.2, which again I'd round up to 32.5.

For the period from 15 September to end Feb she will be have been accruing at the 86.8 hours a year rate, 5.5 months worth. So you divide 86.8 by 12 to get one month's entitlement, then multiply by 5.5 to get the amount she accrued.

87 divided by 12 is 7.25. 7.25 multiplied by 5.5 is 39.87, so basically 40 hours.

So she accrued 40 hours from 15 September to end Feb, and will accrue 32.5 hours from 1 March to end August. Add the two together and you get the total she'll accrue, which is 72.5 hours. Deduct anything she's already taken, including any bank holidays she been off and paid for, and that's what she has available to take.