Working out part-time holiday entitlement

[sazzerbear]

How do you work out part-time holiday entitlement when you are only working a certain number of hours over 3 days (ie not full days) TIA

I'm interested in this too

I work 20 hours over 4 days, eg. 5 hours a day for 4 days a week

personnel say I'm entitled to 4 weeks hols and no more bacause I get paid double time on a bank holiday

I thought the law had changed and I was due more days hols but company said no

wonder if I'm being a mug?

pro-rata.
What are normal full-time hours and how many hours do you do?

i.e. mine are 20 hours over 4 days (5 hours a day). normal full time for my work is 37.5 hours a week. My full-time holiday entitlement would be 25 days plus bank holidays.
I get 20/37.5 x 25x7.5 = 100 hours a year.

Bank holidays I think are slighly less clear, but I think they should be pro-rata'd over the year based on part-time/full-time hours and added to your holiday hours. You then just take the time as holiday when a bank holiday falls on a day you work.

(With mine I have always just taken the bank holidays if they fall on a day I work and not if they don't - but I think this is about to change).

I always work BH's and get paid time again for them

The link here explains holiday entitlement.

It's 5.6 weeks a year.

SSD, being paid double on bank holidays doesn't count as holiday! Your entitlement is to 5.6 weeks of holiday a year. That'll be 28 days for a full timer and 22.5 for you.

If you get given bank holidays off, then companies can count those towards the 5.6 weeks. So a company may give 20 days of holiday, plus the 8 bank holidays, giving the legally required total of 28.

I don't get it off as the bank holiday normally falls into one of my working days, so I just work it and I get double time that day

my company is saying because I work it and get double pay then I don't get extra holidays. where I work is open 365 days of the year and the bank holidays are worked like all the other days

also where I work many people are on different shift patterns, some weekends only, some mon-fri only some part time weekdays only

the people in the office who told us we didn't get extra holidays always have the bank holidays off, but on the shop floor we work all days and the bank holidays are worked by the normal workers who always work that day anyhow

The bank holiday thing is a bit of a red herring .

You are entitled to 5.6 weeks of holiday a year. End of story. Paying you double on bank holidays does not change that.

The only affect bank holidays can have is that if they are given off, they can count towards the 5.6 weeks. In a common, full time office situation, this would mean a holiday entitlement of 20 days plus 8 bank holidays.

It is only over the last couple of years that the entitlement has gone up to 5.6 weeks. It used to be 4 weeks. It sounds likely that your employer may not have kept up with the changes.

Go get your extra 2.5 days!

thanks for the advice everyone, our MD didn't know how to work it out but I knew Mnetters would!!

but rib what if they say you must take bank holidays off then and you'll only have a few days holiday left to take when you choose?

eg. say I have 22.5 days hols and they say I must take 8 of these days as bank holidays. then I WILL ONLY HAVE (oops!)14.5 holidays left to take when I choose? doeS that sound right?

ssd there's no law that says an employee must be able to choose any of his/her holiday. Many employees have bank holidays included in their statutory requirement and for most of them electing to work on those days isn't an option, so a large chunk of their holiday entitlement is effectively dictated to them.

Technically an employer could actually tell you exactly when to take all your holidays, although that would be unusual and most allow at least an element of choice. The only legal requirement is that you get your statutory entitlement of 5.6 weeks.

thanks flowery, hope that wee baby is being good for you!

What Flowery said! Although, as a p.s., if they did that to you and not to the full timers, you might have an argument that it was discrimination...