Part-time allowance

[elaine31xx]

Hi

Im returning to work next year and will be doing 30 hours over 3.5 days (tues-thursday 8.5 hours and 4.5 on a friday).

I got told today "for part-time workers annual leave is counted on a days basis and not hours, so you would have to use a days holiday to take the friday off".

Is this correct? I dont see why I should use a whole day when im only taking half a day off!

thanks

No its not right unless they give you extra holidays to cover the whole days they've made you take for a ½ day holiday.

The minimum leave you'd be entitled to is 5.6 weeks x 30hours = 168 hours. If you take Tuesday off you deduct 8.5 hours and if have Friday off you deduct 4.5 hours

I think they need to go back and reconsider this...

Because, if (for example) the FTE week is 35hrs (7hrs per day), you would be 0.857FTE and your Friday would actually be worth 0.64 days of A/L and your Tues - Thu would be 1.21 days of A/L
(but on the other hand, if they are only counting 1 day of A/L for taking off a Tues, Wed or Thu, you'd be ahead!

(If the full time working week is different, the same logic would apply but the fractions would be different)

If they're going to be that daft, perhaps book all/most of your leave on Tue-Thu, then you'd get proportionately more A/L than a full timer - although, at that point, they might notice that their method is terrible!

This is not only wrong, it is unlawful. Given your work pattern, they must calculate your holiday entitlement in hours. If full time workers get the minimum holiday entitlement (28 days), you are entitled to 168 hours. If they work it out in days, your entitlement would be something like 20 days (assuming they base it on 3.5 days a week). If you took all 20 days on Friday, you would only get 90 hours holiday, well short of your statutory entitlement.

Doesn't sound right to be
I work part time, different hours on different days. My holiday is in hours

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

As above, for most part time people, it should be done in hours

thanks ive asked them to clarify as to me it doesnt sound right if I have to do that and if that is the case then I will not be working the extra hours on the other days when I do take a friday holiday!

If you’re getting 80% of the leave entitlement that full time workers get, then it’s ok. If you get 70% then it’s not.

I'm afraid this is wrong.

If we imagine full time workers are getting 28 days a year (the statutory minimum), 80% of that is 22.4 days a year, call it 22.5. If OP takes all of those days on Fridays, she will get 101.25 hours holiday, well short of her entitlement which is 168 hours.