How many bank holidays a year?

[nymphadora]

and how are they pro-rata-ed if you don't work standard 9-5 week days.

Will be back later!

TIA

Hmm well I work 3 days a week and I have to make up half of the hours of any bank holiday that I'm scheduled to work.

Not sure what the legal situation is though I'd be interested if anyone knows??

Think mine was amount of bank holidays in the year divided by 5, times the amount of days you work a week.

I've just been doing this as I type.

Firstly, divide your normal weekly working hours by 5 - call this X

Then if the bank holiday/ falls on a day you don't normally work then X hours are owed back to you.

If the bank holiday falls on a day you work you then owe X hours to your employer.

Think this is right?

In that case my employer owes me bank hol hours for quite a few years!!! (I think?!) Is there any legal site that I could point out to her to support this d'you know? (sorry to hijack your thread nymphadora). Love the name by the way.

8 bank holidays in England and Wales, although of course it's up to your employer whether you get them off at all, and whether they are included in your annual leave entitlement or are on top.

In terms of pro rating them, as a part timer you can't be disadvantaged when compared to a full timer. For 'normal' 5 day weeks I usually advise managers of part timers to divide 8 by 5 then multiply by the number of days the part timer works each week. Then look at the calendar and see how many bank holidays will naturally fall on the part timer's working days - this will vary depending on the days the person works and when Christmas and New Year fall.

Then the part timer may have days to make up or extra days to take.

For companies that are open 7 days, they often wouldn't be shut on bank holidays anyway, so annual leave is annual leave, and would be worked out the same for everyone, or pro rata for people who work less than a full time week.

The Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations are the relevant ones.

Thanks Beanbag is there anywhere legal that refers to the x5 method of working things out? TIA

I get 9 bank holidays and my annual leave is calculated in hours - rather than days or half days.

As I have a job share and only work half the week 19 hours per week

I get my bank holidays hours 33.75
Plus my annual leave 105 hours
Plus an extra week for working with the company for over 5 years 18.75
It is totted up for the year and as I book holiday the amount is subtracted. I can carry over 19 hours at the end of the holiday year as long I I take the hours within the first month (which is April so I always book easter)

I find this works really well - as I dont work Mondays and just take the hours as I need and want. I dont miss out on bank holidays either. I can have a half day and take 3 hours or have a half day and take 4 hours.

You will need to check your contract:

"You do not have an automatic right to take bank or public holidays off work, with or without pay. This will depends on your employment contract."

Holidays and Holiday Pay, CAB Advice Guide

The method I advise isn't a legal method, it's just what I find the easiest and simplest way to do it. What the law says is that part timers can't be treated less favourably, which means that pro rata they must have the same holiday as a full timer. Part of that holiday may or may not be bank holidays. If full timers get bank holidays off as separate to their annual leave entitlement, that calculation is what I advise clients to use to make sure part timers are treated exactly the same.

IvyKaty44, do you work for NHS? If you do then this is the first explaination I have seen for holiday entitlement which makes sense LOL.

my bank hols and annual hols are worked out exactly the same way as ivykaty44.

Ivykaty44 I was reading your post and thinking thats X that works at the desk opposite me .. till you said your year was April to April

My issue is I am contracted 3 h a week and can work any day (contract mainly eve/ weekends) the rest of the dept are 9-5 (and get o/t for BHs w/es etc)

Anyone care to guess at my Bh entitlement?