Question about part time work and bank holidays

[StColumbofNavron]

I wonder if anyone can clarify for me. I've just agreed to a new contract for a month on the organisation's payroll as a salaried member of staff.

I will be working 4 days a week (Mon-Thurs).

I start next week and am wondering should I be working:
Tues-Thurs
or
Tues-Fri so I do full 4 days

I have asked HR but they haven't got back to me yet and I have a number of out of work commitments/priorities that I need to manage and with 2 BH coming up was hoping I could get a quick answer here.

Tue to Thur

I work Monday to Thursday too and will only be working Tuesday to Thursday next week.

Excellent, thank you both, that is what I thought.

What does your contract say about bank Holidays?

Presumably all those who work Mon-Fri won't have to go on Saturday to make up for the Bank Hol? I think you just have the day off.

You need to check your contract. I work Mon-Thur. I either take the BH as leave, or I work Tue-Fri if I don’t want to use up my leave.
I think it’s the phrase ‘pro-rata’ in your contract, but I’m sure someone will come along and let us know.

Thanks for referring me to the contract, it is pretty clear I think now I have looked at it again.

'You are entitled to eight days leave in addition to your annual holiday entitlement in relation to public holidays each year.'

You might have to owe them an hour or something. Bank Holidays are usually pro rata'd over the year, because for every full day a full time person gets for a bank hol, a part time person is entitled to a proportion of that day. So if you work four days, that's 80% of a five day week, so you are entitled to 80% of a full day off for each bank hol.

May is a complicated month to have a one month part time contract! Hopefully they will overlook the usual pro rata thing for the sake of simplicity, if it's only a month

I get leave calculated in hours. So instead of say 4 weeks leave I get 4x35x0.8 hours leave. For bank holidays I get an additional 80% of the hours of the 8 bank holidays. I am not working on Monday so I will use 7 hours of my leave to cover my absence. Good Friday being on Friday means I don't need to take any leave for that day.

I know @Notagain20, really I am just doing a favour for an old boss and I cannot really afford (in the time sense) to give up the day off and I cannot use a bank holiday for the purpose I need the day for. I guess we'll see on Tuesday.

@StColumbofNavron

I know *@Notagain20*, really I am just doing a favour for an old boss and I cannot really afford (in the time sense) to give up the day off and I cannot use a bank holiday for the purpose I need the day for. I guess we'll see on Tuesday.

Hope it works out OK. Part time hours and bank hols makes my brain melt every year, tbh