Bank holidays when you're P/T

[fancyaflatwhite]

I work 3 days a week - Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - in a mid-senior role.

My contract says I'm entitled to 25 days plus public holidays’ pro rata paid holiday during each holiday year. The company will pro-rata that figure where necessary so that my holiday entitlement is in proportion to my working days during the relevant holiday year.

Do I assume bank holiday Mondays are paid holiday unless I hear otherwise and return as normal on Wednesdays and Fridays, or should I make the bank holidays up by working on another weekday?

Thanks

I used to have to use annual leave for mine, bank holidays were factored into my allowance and then pro rata'd down, so you should only be working two days this week

Usually you get the equivalent time off but if you don’t work certain days and more bank holidays fall on those days, you make up the difference from your annual leave.

This year there are nine bank holidays so whatever you work in a week, divide by five and multiple by 9 eg if you work 25 hours per week, it’s 5 hrs per day over 5 days multiple by 9 = 45 hours. Then work out how many hours you are getting off work for the bank holidays this year and less than 45 means you get extra time off as holiday and more than 45 means you need to take some from your annual leave entitlement.

You should really check with the company how they are doing it, but the technically correct way is for you to get all the same bank holidays as everyone else, but for your annual leave allowance to be adjusted to take into account if bank holidays fall on your working days.

So, they might end up owing you extra annual leave if there are enough public holidays on your non working days, or vice versa a part timer could potentially owe them if, say, they were only supposed to work Mondays and Fridays and ended up taking more bank holidays than their pro rata allowance.

My work has a third party system that works it all out and my annual leave allowance is actually in hours because they work it out so precisely.

All companies are different it seems. At mine, if your BH fall on your normal day off. You get the TIL. Otherwise you can work it for 2.5x on top of pay or have the day off.

I also work 3 days and get 60% of the bank holidays added to my annual leave, with the expectation that I have to take them as leave. This seems to be how most places do it and I choose Monday as one of my non-working days precisely for this reason.