Annual leave for PT worker

[Mortimercat]

I have just (this week) started a new part time role. I work three days a week out of a standard five day week, office hours Monday to Friday. Fairly large company with a few thousand staff, so proper HR department.

My offer letter states 25 days annual leave, which I presume would be pro rated (although it doesn’t say that) and that it probably should say “plus bank holidays” but it doesn’t say that either.

Holiday year is the calendar year. Anyway I have gone into the system and noted it said I have 6.5 days of leave allowance until the end of the year. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they could come up with that. None of the remaining bank holidays this year fall on my working days, so I do not believe anything should be deducted from my allowance for bank holidays. Even if they were, it still doesn’t get to 6.5.

Does anybody, like me, think this is wrong?

Leave for the first year of employment is worked out slightly differently I think, they work it out as 1 12th of your total leave per month. You have about 6 months left in the leave year and your total leave (3/5ths of 25 is 15 days) so you should have 7.5 days.

You should also get the bank holidays pro-rated, there are 3 left this year I think (August, and 2 at Christmas?) You get 3/5th of each day off so assuming a 7.5 hour day then 13.5 hours. Total of just under 9.5 days.

Starting point should always be to ask HR for their calculation. Only then do you know what method they have used.