temp. jobs and holiday allowance

MoneySavingUser

how does this normally work?

if you work for 1 month are you entitled to 1/12 of the statutory holiday allowance? what if you don't utilise it?

Victoriajayne

Yes, you're entitled to the same minumum holiday entitlement as everyone else - 5.6 weeks (28 days) a year for full time, or pro-rata for part time. That 5.6 weeks may or may not include bank holidays, but if the temp work is through an agency, you can pretty much guarantee that it will.

You will accrue a small amount of holiday hours for every hour that you work.
Based on 28 days holiday entitlement a year and a 37.5 hour week, you would accrue 1 hours holiday for every 8.28 hours you work.

If you work through an agency, your weekly payslip will tell you how much holiday you've accrued. You can either take it as holiday, or keep it until you've finished, in which case they will pay it at the end of your contract.

BUT- if your contract runs beyond the end of the agency's holiday year - say their year runs 1st April to 31st March- and you finish your contract after the end of MARCH - then you usually have to take it as holiday before 31st March, or you lose it, as you would with a permanent job.

:-)

anamenottaken

In my experience, not all agencies give a running balance of paid holiday entitlement and, if they do, not all of them will indicate when the time will expire.

You will probably find that you have an individual holiday year, running from the time you started your first assignment with them. But you must check on this.

To work out precisely what holiday you have earned, multiply your hours worked by 12.07%.

You are likely not to be paid for bank holidays unless you specially ask them to pay - each time a bank holiday occurs.

You can only take paid holiday which has accrued by the time you take the holiday. Unlike with a permanent job where you usually can take holiday in anticipation of "earning" it.