Am I being paid correctly for having a day off?

nikkia77

I work term time only, I get paid hourly rate x 6hours (in the working day) x 4days (in the working week) x 39weeks ( in the term) / 52weeks (so that we get paid during the school hols) which comes to £135.95 a week but if I have one day off I don't lose a quarter of my weekly pay I lose 6 hours of pay which is a lot more. I've been told it's to do with it spread over the year but I don't know who I can ask

t0rt0ise

Sounds right to me as you lose the 6 hours pay over only one month and not all the year so it will look like you're losing more.

Who pays you? When I was working in a school it was the County Council Education Department and I called the pay office there if I had a query.

getmore4less

Technicaly you should lose a little more than 6 hours because the holiday allowance goes down.

moneypuddle

I'd ask your employer to explain it to you

madjay

It is correct you will lose 6Hrs if you have a day off. You work 6hrs a day but you actually get paid 4.5hrs and 1.5hrs goes towards paying you when you are having to work.

ie
you work 6hrs day x 4 days x 39 weeks = 936hrs per year

but you get paid 4.5hrs x 4 days x 52 week = 936hrs per year

if you take a day off when you should be working then you actually work

you work 6hrs day x 4 days x 39 weeks - 6hrs = 930hrs per year

and you should get paid 4.471hrs x 4 days x 52 week = 930hrs per
but you don't do the above ,they take the 6hrs in one go to stop having to reduce your wages for the rest of the year.

I hope this is clear now

miss_duke

I also think its correct, but I assume you are also getting some paid leave somewhere along the way?

an9i77

This is correct, when you work you are getting paid some of that now and some later in the holidays. So if you don't work (and don't get paid) then you lose the six hours, but you still get paid the same during the holidays so you are in effect taking it from your future (holiday) earnings. Otherwise you'd be being paid for work you hadn't done

[Deleted User]

What concerns me about that calculation is that you are not actually being paid any holiday pay! I have many clients who are afterschool clubs / playgroups and the way most are calculated is 43.2 weeks / 52. This is because they work 39 termtime weeks (3/4 of the year) so are paid 3/4 of the minimum entitlement 21/28 days I.e 4.2 weeks. Making 43.2 weeks divided equally over the Year. If you work 39 weeks and only get paid 39 weeks you are not getting any holiday pay!

getmore4less

I was not sure, but looks like school term time is 39 weeks so that means they need to add the holidays.

Full time if you get statutory holidays is (52-5.6) 46.4 weeks

So holiday entitlements is 5.6*39/46.4 = 4.71 weeks.

should get paid for 43.71 weeks (not 43.2 as above).

[Deleted User]

getmore4less wrote: »

I was not sure, but looks like school term time is 39 weeks so that means they need to add the holidays.

Full time if you get statutory holidays is (52-5.6) 46.4 weeks

So holiday entitlements is 5.6*39/46.4 = 4.71 weeks.

should get paid for 43.71 weeks (not 43.2 as above).

5.6 is the full time equivalent so devide that by 52 the annual and multiply by 39 the actual gives you 4.2 weeks.

getmore4less

Deleted_User wrote: »

5.6 is the full time equivalent so devide that by 52 the annual and multiply by 39 the actual gives you 4.2 weeks.

That is incorect if the holidays are taken outside the working time like they are for a term time worker, you have to prorata on actual working weeks.

A 52 week worker only works 46.4 weeks if they get statutory holidays.

The easy way to look at it is if the worker did 2 6 month(26weeks) by your caclulation they would have 2 lots of 1/2 of 5.6 so 5.6 weeks but then no time to take it because they work 52 weeks to earn 5.6.


Your clients are getting underpaid.