PART - TIMERS How does your employer treat BANK HOLIDAY?????????????????

[drosophila]

Mine do this:

In my case I work about 60% of days so I get 60% of bank holidays. I workout my annual leave entitlement i.e. 60% of my full time equivalent . So I get 'X' number of normal leave days and 'Y' number of bank holidays.

Then if a bank holiday falls on a day I normally work I deduct this from my Y figure.

If a bank holiday falls on a day I don't work I am expected to take a day off work close to the bank holiday and deduct it from the 'Y' figure.

Interested to hear other approaches.

Anyone

I used to work part time - no work for myself. They used to work out the number of bank holidays I was entitled too based on the % rule as you described, then used to work out how many I worked against and add or subtract the balance from my AL entitlement which was also a % of the standard.

Hope you understand and I think this is the same.

thread here any help?

I meant NOW work for myself!

Think mine (currently on temp contract) works similar apart from the enforced day off part.

Thanks. It is the enforced day I have issue with.

Mine is the same as Spoo if I've understood that correctly - I work 4 days a week so get 4/5 of usual holiday entitlement plus 4/5 of bank holidays, HR then add that together and deduct the number of days which are bank holidays falling on a day I would otherwise be working then whatever's left over is my holiday entitlement to take whenever I want.

Strictly speaking though, part-timers are only entitled to bank holidays that fall on a day when they would otherwise be working - bad news for people like me who don't work Mondays!

Picc do you think that because of the recent tribunal case. Mu understanding was that that situation was complicated by the fact that the company concerned operated 7 days a week.

I used to work 3 days a week (not a Monday) and didn't get any BHs. In the vein of, you're off anyway. I have now changed to shorter days (30 hrs over 5 days) and now get bh off.

I work Tues to Thurs, I get 3/5ths of all the bank hols that fall on the days I dont work - any where i would usually be working I am off like the rest of the staff. Works out just under an extra 4 days holiday a year.

my empoyers have just changed to the % thing. I work later in the week so never got bank holidays - now i get an extra week and a half AL - apparently working time directive has changed????

I think that case (can't remember the name) was complicated by being a seven day a week business Drosophila. The whole thing was that she wasn't any worse off than the full timers (who also didn't get holidays on non working days).

To the OP, the pro rating sounds fair enough and bog standard. The enforced day off less so. I think this disadvantages you for being a part time worker because it gives you less holiday time (pro rata) than full timers that you can take when you want.

For example, say you work four days a week and not Mondays. Assume six bank holidays are Mondays. Your pro rata entitlement of bank holidays is six and a half. You have two bank holidays that fall on non working days and for which you use holiday. You then have six days you have to take close to a bank holiday. This makes your whole fixed/semi fixed holiday 8 days. But your entitlement is only 6.5, so it encroaches on when you can take other holidays by a day and a half.

A full timer, on the other hand has an allowance of eight days which gets used on the eight bank holidays. Therefore, their normal holiday allowance is unaffected by having to take fixed days.

Hope that makes sense!

Whoops, wrote that as if it was answering two different people and it was all the OP. Shouldn't go back and add new paragraphs at the top when I edit posts...