How do bank holidays work when you're part time?

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If I work 3 days a week (not usually Monday) how do bank holidays affect me?

If I don't usually work on a Monday do I just not get the holiday, or do I get a day of later in the week - or is it done on a pro-rata basis somehow?

My contract says I get a number of days per year "in addition to bank holidays" but no one here seems to know what it means in reality!

Can anyone help?

TIA

Hi,
In my workplace we get back a proportion of hours as time due if you don't usually work a Monday. It's some ridiculously complicated formula to work it out but it seems to work!

same as my holiday is worked out (i think) say if you work 20 hours a week, that's divided into 5 and i'd get 4 hours off. (i think again!)

Proportion of hours here too - if you work 20 hours and fulltime is 37 then you should get 20/37 x fullday hours x number of bank holidays

So for example

20/37 x 7 hours 30 x 12 bank holidays

Here they just add that onto the number of hours for the annual leave, and you use it up bit by bit when you are off - whether that is a bank holiday or not.

Thanks for the replies. Do you know if there's any legislation on this? Do my employers have to do it this way?

There is legislation saying you cannot discriminate against part time workers, so yes, there is legislation.

BUT

How they do it is up to them. For example, if a business was running 7 days a week but closed on bank holidays (a car showroom, say. They would probably be open, but you get my drift) and the rule was simply luck of the draw - i.e. if the bank holiday fell on your working day you got it, if not you didn't - that would be fine because it would treat full timers and part timers the same.

For a normal business, the easiest way is to think in total holiday entitlement. If a full timer gets 20 days plus 8 bank holidays, a 0.6 person gets 28x 0.6 = 17. You then use those holidays if bank holidays fall on a working day, and if they don't then you just have more holiday in the bank to choose the date of.

Where I work, the policy was that part-timers got bank holidays if they were working that day - so if you worked Mon-Thurs, you actually got more than your share,given that most bank hols are Monday.

I work an odd week (half day Mon & Fri, full day Wed-Thurs), so I approached our HR to point out that I was missing out, and we have agreed the pro-rata formula, which means I get an extra 1.5 or 2 days added to my annual leave.

In your case, if you don't work Mondays, you should get 3/5 x 8 bank holidays (i.e approx 5)- so if only 1 or 2 fall on the days you are working, you should get holiday for the rest.

Thanks everyone, I'll talk to them about arranging a pro-rata agreement.