HR question. Christmas bank holidays- I don't work Mondays so do I lose these days

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Hi so I currently only work 3 mornings a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Christmas Day and New Year's Day both fall on a Monday which I don't work anyway. So do I just lose those days? I know I'm off anyway but this seems a bit unfair this year 🤣. Thanks

In my workplace they calculate how much of the bank holiday you're entitled to, eg I work 0.8FTE so they give me 0.8 of the bank holiday.

So if I work 8 hours a day I'm entitled to 6 hours of bank holiday.

If the bank holiday falls on my day off my employer credits me with 6 hours annual leave. If the bank holiday falls on a working day I take it off and have to make up the 2 hours that I'm not entitled to.

I’m the same as above, normal practise I believe

Usually the bank holiday hours are pro-rata for part time workers. This may mean that someone who only works 2 days a week would have 40% of the 8 bank holiday hours to take either on the bank holiday or at another time. If they work Mondays, they will be in deficit as 50% of bank holidays (minimum) fall on a Monday.

As above, you should get a proportionate amount of leave. But don't celebrate yet - it cuts both ways, and if a public holiday falls on a day you do work then time will be deducted from your leave.

Working those 3 days you should get a pro rata increase in your leave to reflect the fact most BH fall on your non-working days.

Speak to HR, if you get push back come back to this thread and we can help you show they are acting unlawfully.

Your holiday allowance should be calculated based on full time - so if full timers get 28 days including bank holidays, you would get 3/5 of this to take

Presumably you can take your holidays whenever you want, whereas full timers have to take some of their holiday for bank holidays

My husband is soon to start a contract of five days (full time) but not working the Sun and Mon. How will that work with the majority of Bank Holidays falling on a Monday?

You shouldn't lose the days. Where do you see your AL? If it is is online it should have taken your working pattern into account. So the years bank hols fall on your non working days you should have more AL.

You will get 3/5ths the amount of bank hol and regular AL as a full time collegue because you work less.

Bank holidays should be worked out proportionately to your hours so if you work 50% full time equivalent you'll get 4 days not 8, and so on

Yes, I worked wed,Thurs,Fri so I got 60% of bank holidays allocated to me. So if there was a bank holiday it came out of that pot and of I didn't I got the remaining as holidays

Same here, you should get a pro rata number of hours given to you as leave. That's why not working Monday works well, as you essentially gain extra annual leave to take when you want.

Yeah we put part timer holidays into hours and if a full time person gets 8 bank holidays (56 hours) we would prorate that to however many hours annually. Then if a bank holiday falls on a day they normally work they used the relevant number of hours. If it falls on a day they don't work nothing required.