Part time annual leave

[Whathefisgoingon]

Can someone tell me how many days annual leave I would be entitled to this year? I get really confused on part time what with bank holidays falling on days I don’t work etc

I work Tues, Weds, Thurs.

My company got it wrong last year and I was short a few days, which they corrected I queried further.

@tcjotm

*But surely you can see that is unfair? Everyone is entitled to benefit from bank holidays regardless of their actual working days*

In Australia not all public holidays are tied to Mondays so people who work on other days of the week will also get the that holiday if it falls on one of their regularly rostered days.

But a person who never works on a Monday has no expectation of being paid on that day.

But do they not get pro rata hours added to their leave entitlement....like in the U.K.? Where I am everyone wants a Monday off as they end up with much more leave to take when they want

Thanks all.

So as I understand it, I will get 16.8 days, including BH.

Depends if full time staff get more than the minimum.
If they get more holidays than 28 for full time then you get ⅗ of what they get. Bank holidays may be included in the 28 days or could be on top of it.

@dementedpixie

Depends if full time staff get more than the minimum. If they get more holidays than 28 for full time then you get ⅗ of what they get. Bank holidays may be included in the 28 days or could be on top of it.

This I work 4 days a week Full time employees get 33 days plus 8 bank holidays....I get 4/5 of this....look at your contract

Does you a/l year start in January and end in December?

But surely you can see that is unfair?
Everyone is entitled to benefit from bank holidays regardless of their actual working days

No I don't think it's unfair. You pick your part time days based on your preference? Our bank holidays usually fall on a Monday, but not all of them.

Our next bank holiday is 26th Jan, a Wednesday. Next year it will be a Thursday.

But do they not get pro rata hours added to their leave entitlement....like in the U.K.? Where I am everyone wants a Monday off as they end up with much more leave to take when they want

@Kitkat151 no, public holidays are dealt with entirely separately to annual leave balances. With public holidays you couldn’t pay someone who worked say weds - Fri for a Monday holiday, it would mean paying them for four days that week which isn’t what anyone signed up for.

Annual leave is four weeks per year here, standard, and so a full time person gets 4 weeks (I.e 20 days) and 3 day per week person gets 4 weeks (I.e. 12 days).

I can see how it gets confusing if bank holidays are part of the calculation. I only worked in the UK for a few years and I was full time so I didn’t think about it. I did notice that annual leave entitlements varied more though.

@BootsScootsAndToots
And then there’s Anzac Day which has weird rules if it falls on a weekend. In NSW we don’t get a holiday on the following Monday if it falls on a Saturday and/or maybe Sunday) but I believe other states too. There is always a lot of moaning 😂

Like a PP said, working T/W/Th means you won't be affected by BH's very much. Are there any BH's on one of those days in the next year? Maybe the Queens Jubilee?

You should get your annual leave pro rata’d so that iff full timers get 20 days, you would get 3/5 of that (or 60%) = 12 days.
If full time workers get 25 days then you would get 15, and so on.
Bank holidays can be worked out differently, depending on your contract, but the most common way of doing it is for you to also receive 3/5 of what full time employees get, so next year (for one year only) full time workers will get 9 days, so you would get 3/5 = 5.4 rounded up to 5.5, this added to you annual leave is what a part time worker on 3 days per week would usually get

@dementedpixie

Does your contract not set out your entitlement?

It will vary every year depending on any bank holidays fall on her working days.

OP, I work the same days as you (but only half days).

Annual leave at my place is in days, not hours, so I get 22.5 days leave this year.

Forgot to say, full timers at my place get 30 days plus 8 bank holidays.