Help with holiday entitlement and bank holidays

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Hi, just wondering if anyone can help with this.

DH works a 4 day week, Tuesday - Friday, 8 hours a day. His annual leave is 18 days + bank holidays. The other employees who work 5 days get 22 days + bank holidays.

Firstly, is this leave allowance correct and secondly, should he be entitled to anything extra for a bank holiday Monday? This is considering the business is closed and his co-workers who work full time are paid for bank holidays.

We are also currently trying to source his contract from them, he's never seen or signed one!

Thank you.

It’s much simpler to just add up leave and holidays as one. So the full time holiday allowance is 30 days. When the office is closed on people’s working days (ie bank holidays) people have to use their allowance for it. He works 0.8 so he gets 24 days.
any bank holidays which fall on his working day he takes as leave.
I don’t work Mondays and this is 100% the only legal way to do it!

Then he gets a pro rata allowance for Mondays.
Is he new in the role? A portion of this allowance is possibly being used to take him up to 18 full days since 0.8 would only actually accrue 17.6.
Can’t he just discuss it with HR?
He would be due 4 bank holiday Mondays in 2026 and the remaining bank holidays.

If full time staff get 22 + 8 = 30 bank holidays then he should be entitled to ⅘ of 30 days which would be 24 days.

The bank holidays are already included within the 24 days holidays on a pro rata basis so he would be entitled to anything else

Although he needs to make sure he is actually getting 24 days leave as he should get pro rata bank holidays as well as pro rata annual leave

Thank you for the clear up, I thought you meant he got his allowance and all bank holidays which is why I was unsure what else he could have extra.

OP hasn't confirmed, but if he's only get the bank holidays that fall on non-monday days, that's typically going to be 3 days a year (variable according to what weekday Christmas, boxing day and new year fall on). Part time employees have a legal right to the pro-rata number of bank holiday days in proportion to what fraction of full-time hrs they work applied to the 8 bank holiday days that full time employees get, regardless of which weekdays they work.

Then they're getting it wrong. He should have 6.4 days of bank holidays. If he only uses 3 days of that on bank holiday days, then he needs 3.4 days of holiday time to use on different days.

Op confirmed and cleared it up a couple hours before your comment. So I now understand what she means 🙂

The plus bank holidays means his prorata BH should added to his annual leave. 4/5 x 8 = 6.4, so he should be getting 24.5 (rounded to nearest half day) days in total, some of which he'll use to cover any bank holidays that fall on his working days.

He will be owed a lot of unpaid holiday pay if he's been there long. ACAS will give him template letters to use.