Part time Holiday Pay

[Ruth108]

Any advice please. I started my role in February this year, the holiday year runs Jan-December. I work 25 hours a week over 4 days. When I use the gov.uk calculator to work out my holiday entitlement it gives me 31 hours for the year. 140 if I had started in January at the beginning of the holiday year. However, when I queried this with my employer they have come back that I am only entitled to 121? Is there a possibility that they have used another calculation that's available to them for it ? I am a permanent work and my hours and working days are set.

How many hours a week is full time and what’s the full time holiday entitlement? Are bank holidays calculated separately in addition to this hours?

full time is 40 hours and bank holidays are unpaid so taken from the full time 28 days entitlement

Deduct the bank holidays which will give you your actual holiday entitlement, then divide that figure by 40 and multiply by 25.

Thank you 🙏

The gov.uk calculation seems to be closer to the correct number.

A full-time employee is entitled to 224 hours holiday, divide by 40 (full-time hours) and multiply by 25 (your hours) and you get 140 hours for a complete year.

Divide that number by 365 (days in year) and multiply by number of days you will be employed for the year, say 334 if you started on 1st Feb and you get 128 hours.

You need to ask them how they did their calculations.

Which 4 days do you work?

You'd need to deduct any bank holidays you are due to work to leave you with the hours you can choose to take.

You're entitled to 5.6 weeks of holiday in a full holiday year so 5.6 x 25 = 140 hours.

Thank you all for your replies. I've sent another email asking how they've worked this out. Just to clarify, although the company doesn't recognise bank holidays we are all entitled to 28 days holiday a year but if we don't work a bank holiday this has to be taken from our entitlement. But this is obviously pro rata for part time workers.

The bottom line is that you are entitled to 5.6 weeks worth of statutory leave a year.

5.6 x 25 = 140 hours.

Or, if you want to do it in days (assuming your work days are all the same length) 4 x 5.6 = 22.4 days.

Work days vary - I do 2 x 8 hours and 1 x 5 and 1x 4 total 25 they remain the same each week
acas and gov. Uk both give 131 as the entitlement employer has give a calculation of 25 days over 5 days and that I will have worked 317 days of 366 making it 121 this simply does not match anything based on 28 days holiday - bank holidays I don't work come out of that 28 and are showing in my calendar as taken. Employer is adamant they are correct so going to give acas a call Monday morning just to clarify with them. I don't want to die on a hill of 10 hours but over the years this will add up.