Holiday entitlement, bank holidays and the part-time worker

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I work four days a week with Thursday as my usual day off.

This time around, both Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a Thursday so I feel as if I am in effect losing my day off in those weeks. However, I am being told by HR where I work that I am not entitled to take two other days off to compensate.

This means that I will have two fewer bank holidays in this holiday year than I would have been entitled to in the last holiday year.

That doesn't seem right to me. Any HR types able to explain?

I work p/t, I get a pro rata BH allowance added on to my annual leave, but have to take BH as annual leave if they fall on the days I would normally work. Thought this was how every one did it? (falls off chair at the thought of our HR dept getting something right )

I'm a HR Manager for a large company and deal with this sometimes.
What you would do to work out a part timers holiday entitlement is:

Take full time holiday per year
Add 8 statutory holidays per year
Take the total and pro rata it.

Example: Jo is full time and gets 25 days company holiday + 8 statutory days. This means that she gets 33 days total.
If she then wanted to work 3 days instead of 5 days, she would take 33 divided by 5, multiplied by 3 as her pro-rata allowance, or 19.8 days. We would round this up to 20.

If a Bank Holiday fell on a day she was at work then a day would be deducted off her 20 days entitlement. If a Bank Holiday fell on a day she was not working, she would not receive payment for this as it would be accounted for in her pro-rata total to be taken on another day.

Hope this helps. Max

Um, Max this thread is 18 months old, so the OP is unlikely to read it I'm afraid.

I work in a supermarket ,and i have booked holidays for good friday ,easter sat and easter monday, and have been told i cannot have any holidays easter week can they make me work these days.

Depends what your contract/annual leave policy says Brookeie. What do they say about bank holidays and about their right to refuse holiday applications?

I work part-time - working Mon, Tues and Thurs. In a normal year fulltimers get 8 days pub hols. I get these prorata and added to my prorata annual leave. When Public hol falls on a Mon/Tues (which most do!) these just get taken off my annual allowance. I can't see the confusion? Yes - it means I have to take some of the phs as annual leave - but overall I still get my fair amount off.