Holiday time on bank entitlement - help

solodanceparty

I'm on the admin bank within the NHS. I've been told I do not get any holiday or sick pay entitlement. This means, this year I won't have one full day off until October, when I go home to visit family. But even then, I won't be getting paid for the entire week, so I'll be missing £200 from my pay check, which is really going to hurt when it comes to bills and rent. It doesn't make it any easier when everyone is complaining about having 4 more weeks of holiday to take, when I get nothing.

Is this really legal? I didn't want to get into a permanent position, since I want to go on secondment in Feb 2011 for nursing, but I'm thinking I might as well look for permanent jobs just so I can get some time off.

solodanceparty

So I do accrue holiday. Problem solved

anamenottaken

Did someone answer you?

As I understand it, NHS admin bank staff are paid holiday pay with each month's pay. It is listed separately. That is the case with the PCT that I know - though I think it is wrong for them to do that because they do it even when a member of bank staff has been working long hours all through a month and not been able to take any days off.

tigtag02

Bank staff accrue holiday pay under the working time directive - I think it depends who you work for as to how often this is paid - we pay quarterly.

(I believe its 1 hour for every 9.something worked)

getmore4less

My OH works NHS bank and gets holiday pay included in the monthly payments.

She cuurently never works more than a few days a months( on average) so has lots of periods of no work.

I wondered what would happen if she started being more regular(near full time/ every week) since holiday should then acru and be taken as time off and paid.

Roobarb73

All workers have the right to paid holiday - 5.6 weeks a year or pro rata equivalent.

Don't ask me to work it out for you though, it's a nightmare!

Roobarb73

getmore4less wrote: »

My OH works NHS bank and gets holiday pay included in the monthly payments.

She cuurently never works more than a few days a months( on average) so has lots of periods of no work.

I wondered what would happen if she started being more regular(near full time/ every week) since holiday should then acru and be taken as time off and paid.

she should accrue it and get paid for it at the time she takes the holiday - the way she gets paid is called rolled up holiday pay and is now unlawful, as holiday must be paid when it is taken.