Part time, what are best days to work?

feelinggood_2

I seem to remember there are complicated rules on bank holidays for part time staff.

Assuming bank holidays are paid in addition to the 'selectable' holiday allowance, would it be better for a part-time worker to avoid working Mondays?

DCFC79

Depends if the person would rather have the money and work the monday or have a long weekend, are we talking about a certain employer here

getmore4less

You need to know how a particular employer calculates the holidays.

feelinggood_2

They work full time at the moment, and I think that they are paid for bank holidays, but doesn't have to work them. Assuming this is the case, does that mean that part-time staff are given pro-rated pay for bank holidays, even if they don't usually work them?

They are going down to three days a week, and get to chose those days.

liney

Part time staff should get a pro rata entitlement for Bank Holidays as unfavorable treatment does work both ways: if s/he was to be paid all bank holidays regardless, then full time members of staff could complain that s/he was being given effectively more holiday than them. And rightly so.

However, regardless of how the holiday was calculated i'd avoid Mondays given the choice because at my place of work it would mean i would get additional floating days. However overall i'd still have the same amount of paid leave which ever days I worked.

Assuming s/he is working 3 days then s/he should be entitled to 8/5*3days = 4.8 days worth of bank holidays paid. The additonal ones being unpaid, or taken out of floating days, whichever the company allow.