Holiday entitlement 2027

[sparklestar4]

Hello,

I received my Holiday entitlement today and I'm questioning whether it's correct.
I work part time over 4 days (8hrs per day Monday - Thursday).

Full time employee holiday entitlement is 26 days plus 8 days bank holiday.

Christmas is automatically subtracted from my entitlement which will be 2 days next year due to the way Christmas falls next year. (29th, 30th December)

My holiday runs from January - December.

I wondered if anyone could check this for me, preferably someone with a background in HR or know of any websites that can do this for me.

Thanks in advance!

If 8 hour days are standard in your workplace you should get 80% of a full time entitlement

@HermioneWeasley Thanks for this. I forgot to mention my entitlement is suppose to be 16.5 days for the 2027...

So what entitlement have you been given

I don't work in HR, but I do work as 0.8 FTE and 16.5 day looks far too low.

26 plus 8 is 34
4/5 of 34 is 27
or 25 is Christmas is auto booked

is how it worked in my old pace

Full time employees get 26+8=34 paid days off per year.
You are entitled to 27.2 paid days off per year as 27.2 is 80% of 34.

Your work days being Mon-Thur, in 2027 there are 6 bank holidays in 2027 that will fall on your working days.

You are therefore entitled to 21.2 days of annual leave aside from Bank Holidays. The 0.2 is probably not worth quibbling about but do not accept any less than 21.

You get 80% of 34 days, which is 27.2 days. Often this is converted to hours or rounded up to 27.5/28 days.

You need to use 8 hours/1 day of leave if at BH falls on any of your working days. If a BH is on your NWD, no leave is required. The rest of your leave, you use as you wish, subject to necessary approval.

What do you mean by 'I forgot to mention my entitlement is suppose to be 16.5 days for the 2027'

22.4 days for 32hrs a week

So FTers get 26 + 8 - 3 (assuming you’re shut between Xmas and NY) = 31.

If you’re on a 0.8 contract then you should get 0.8 x (26+8) =27. From this you take off 2 days for Xmas closure and 5 BH Mondays, so I think you should get 20 full days.

There’s 5 BH on a Monday surely - Xmas, Easter, May x 2 and Aug?

I have worked it out at 18 days including the 2 days you will be off at christmas
it actually works out at 22.4 days which is usually rounded up to 21 minus the two days would be 19, but your company may not round up holidays.

The bank holidays would be on top of this allowance

You have 26 days normal leave + 8 days public holidays.

You get 4/5 of a standard allowance i.e. 20.8 normal leave + 6.4 days public holiday

In 2027, 2 public holidays fall on a Friday. Therefore you "owe" the company 0.4 public holidays
Which brings you down to 20.4 normal leave days + 6 public holidays.

(I'm assuming that Friday is also an 8 hour day; if it's less than that, none of this is correct).

26 plus 8 is 34 x 0.8 is 27.2. 8 bank holidays of which 7 will fall on your working days plus the 2 additional days for the Christmas break makes 18.2 days

In 2027 Christmas Day and Boxing Day both fall on a weekend so Mon 27th and Tue 28th are both bank holidays in leiu

Oh but I misunderstood what you meant about Christmas - in addition to the 2 bank holidays the office is shut for the whole week at Christmas so the Wednesday and Thursday are also automatic deductions. That means it should be 19 not 21.

6 not 7. New years day falls on a Friday.

Oh yes of course - I was thinking of this year

So OP should have 21, less the two Christmas closure days, leaving 19. Not the 16.5 she has been given.

The way I do it is to add the bank holidays to the annual leave (33 days in my case) pro rata it (I work 20 hours a week over 5 days) then deduct 8 because i don’t work on bank holidays ever. I actually often work less than 5 days but that’s worked out at the time rather than for annual leave

Full time staff get 34 days paid holiday. As you work 4 days per week, you are therefore entitled to 80% of that, which is 27.2 days regardless of the length of the day. The company takes 2 of those days for Christmas. Six bank holidays fall on your working days, so that leaves 19.2 days for you to use however you want. Their calculation is clearly wrong. Ask them to explain how they have worked it out.

No, it's not 16.5 days.

Ask your HR Adviser for a breakdown on how it's been calculated?

What was your annual leave entitlement for 2026?

I work in HR & Payroll As always prh47bridge is correct.

The only thing I will add is that legally the comapny cannot round down the 19.2 remaining days. Most would round it up to 19.5 days although they could give you the extra 1.6 hours.

Normal convention is to round up to the closest half day 🙃

20.8 days annual leave (inc 2 Christmas days) and 6.4 bank holidays. You will need to book AL if a bank holiday is outside of the 6 4 days permitted.

I wouldn't round up, I'd do it precise to avoid unequal treatment.