PT holiday - unfair practice?

[Jaffakake]

Hi,

Looking for a bit of advice as I think my new employer’s method of dealing with holidays for part time workers is unfavourable and therefore illegal.

I’ve recently moved back into the private sector having been in the public for many years, so interested if this a view I have due to working in that sector or if it is indeed unfair.

I’m working 4 1/2 days a week, 33.75hrs. I work a short day on a Tue and Fri 9:00 - 15:00.

The company standard is 37.5 worked Mon - Thu 8:30 - 5:00 & Fri 8:30 - 15:45 with 45 mins for lunch.

I’ve been allocated pro rata holidays. However, when I book a day off, I am deducted 7.5 hrs regardless of whether I book a short day off or not. So, in effect my holiday allowance doesn’t go as far as it should.

This feels unfair, is it?

Surely it would be by hours rather than days, so sounds like your shorted on holiday hours

You should have your leave in hours when you’re part time not days, and you should be deducted the hours you work on that day, not a full standard day. Get in touch with HR o

You are correct. You are being treated less favourably.

I work PT and it’s calculated as hours at my work. Would definitely raise it.

I work various hours over my 4 days so my holiday is calculated in hours to make it fair. Yours should be calculated the same way, it’s probably worth speaking to your HR department.

Yes completely unfair, as it should be either done by hours or booked as 0.8 of a day (or whatever it works out to) Likely that the leave booking system is basic and can't cope with part days leave though. Best thing to do it properly to speak with your line manager and agree than the extra hours you are owed whenever you have to book a whole day to get your short day off leave can be taken either as TOIL or added up for extra holiday which your line manager agrees but doesn't get recorded on the system

If you don't have a flexible line manager who'll do that then only option would be to complain to HR that you're not being given the right amount of leave

Definitely should be done in hours.

You can phone ACAS for free, confidential HR advice and they'll give you the legal info behind it too, if that helps with your conversation with your company.

You are being diddled

Thanks everyone. Bit nervous about bringing it up as I’m only 2 weeks in. The HR computer system is basic, but imho it’s no excuse. If that’s the way it works they need to give me equivalent full time leave to make it right. I’ll get my words sorted and approach HR about it.

You're right. I would just take a polite "just letting you know I'm PT, oversight, could you update it when you get a chance" type thing - just breezily assume they know what they're doing and it's just a one-off mistake.

@Jaffakake if you can, work it out in hours and send it to HR, it makes it much easier for them to understand your calculation. Also point out you only get paid 6 hours on a Friday not 7.5 hours.