Changing my part time days to Monday, bank holiday query.

[gemloving]

Hi All,

I'm going on mat leave again in August and I don't usually work Fridays but thinking of changing this to Monday which won't be a problem I believe.

I chose not to do this in the first place given the bank holidays... now someone told me you should get the days in lieu which I didn't know. Is this true? If not I probably won't even change the day, ha!

I don't get them in lieu

You should get pro rata bank holidays added to your entitlement e.g. if you work 4 days you'd get ⅘ of holiday entitlement and ⅘ of bank holidays.

Having Monday as a non working day would mean more choice about when to take your holidays as you wouldn't need to use them on bank holiday Mondays when your place of work is shut.

If you work very part time and take Monday’s off you will usually end up owing some holiday as you will have taken more prorated bank holiday time then you have used.

If you don’t work Monday’s the prorated allowance should be added to you holiday allowance. How much depends on how many hours you work over the rest of the week and if anyone of those days fall on bank holidays.

First paragraph should say will have taken more then your allowance.

I’ve always benefited from not working on Mondays as I get banks hols pro rata. If there’s 9 in a year and I get 7 pro rata, I only need to book the non-Monday hols off ie Easter Friday, Xmas Day, Box Day & NY Day, some years these too fall on a Monday so it’s in my favour, some years they aren’t.

It depends on your employer I believe.

I work Tues-Fri and get extra leave in lieu of the Monday bank hols so it is very beneficial to me (it’s why I chose it). I’ve just had another 7.5hrs holiday added for the Coronation.

No, it does not depend on your employer. It is laid down in law. To work out the holiday allowance for a part time employee, you take the holiday entitlement of full time employees (including bank holidays) and adjust it pro rata. So an employee working 3 days a week will receive 3/5ths of the holiday allowance of a full time employee (assuming full time is 5 days a week). Bank holidays then come out of the holiday entitlement if they fall on the day the part time employee normally works.

So, in OP's case, changing to working on Mondays won't give her additional holidays. It will result in her having more of her allowance taken up with bank holidays, so less to use as she chooses.

There are differences in how bank holidays are treated contractually
Working on bank holidays - Citizens Advice

You can't be treated less favourably as a part time employee but some employers pay for bank holidays and some don't, some are additional to paid holiday and some are included.

I benefit as laid out in the example given, I don't work Mondays so don't have leave deducted for Monday bank holidays. Instead I have hours that I can take when I choose.

I get nothing in leu.
I'm a teacher though so it's a bit sod's law.

In a previous job (nhs) I didn't work Mondays. I'd get my annual leave as annualised hours, including a pro rata amount for all bank holidays. I'd then use the hours to book leave including bank holidays if it fell on a working day.