holiday entitlement

zip1980

hi at my current job i get 13days holiday and paid bank holidays i work 5 days a week, our holidays run from jan to jan was just wondering as the holiday entitlement went up to 24 days last september should i have got the extra days last year

whu

Did they say it would be effective from Jan this year or backdated last year?

zip1980

sorry i dont think i explaind that well
i mean to say should i have got the extra days when the entitlement went up to 24 days in september, or should i have just got the 21 days that i did becouse my holiday year starts in january

LittleVoice

The statutory minimum entitlement went up on 1 October 2007.

For a holiday year which doesn't start on 1 October you need to work out the proportion of the increase which applies to your holiday year.

For the year of January to December (inclusive) 2008 you would have been entitled to a total of 24 days.

And that would mean that in 2007 you would indeed have been entitled to 21 days as the increase was 4 days and October to December is a quarter of a year.

zip1980

what! it went up in 2007?, so my boss only giving me 21 days last year is wrong?

LittleVoice

zip1980 wrote: »

what! it went up in 2007?, so my boss only giving me 21 days last year is wrong?

Absolutely. As long as you work 5 days a week you would have been entitled to 24 days in 2008.

Good news - and from 1 April 2009 you wouldl be entitled to 28 days on the same basis. So, the pro rata increase for someone whose holiday year runs with the calendar year, would bring the holiday entitlement be 27 days in 2009.

lesley1960

LittleVoice wrote: »

Absolutely. As long as you work 5 days a week you would have been entitled to 24 days in 2008.

Good news - and from 1 April 2009 you wouldl be entitled to 28 days on the same basis. So, the pro rata increase for someone whose holiday year runs with the calendar year, would bring the holiday entitlement be 27 days in 2009.

Doesnt that include bank holidays?

LittleVoice

Yes.

OP said 13 days holiday and paid bank holidays. That totals 21 days.

So the 24 days and 28 days also include (as they may) bank holidays.

craig777

zip1980 wrote: »

what! it went up in 2007?, so my boss only giving me 21 days last year is wrong?

Does your company shut down at Christmas? If so, this could be why you were only given 21 days to take as holiday. Our company shuts down for 3 working days over the Christmas period and this taken from our yearly holiday allowance, so I myself only had 21 days to take at my own leisure, the same as yourself.

zip1980

yeah we shut down for a week but i only got paid for the bank holidays. i guess i should have a word with her.