Calculating Paid Holiday

mysk_girl

Hi,

I help to run the local village preschool and have taken over doing the payslips this month. Going through everything, it seems that most of the staff have had their holiday allowance incorrectly calculated. There are 39 weeks in term time, but we don't pay for the 5 inset days (we match the local primary school), so the previous administrator had been paying for 38 weeks and then calculating holiday pay based on this (@12.07% legal minimum).

However, I think the staff should have their pay calculated for 39 weeks, holiday pay based on this, and then any days off that fall in term time (5 inset + 2 bank holidays this year) should be deducted from this holiday IF they fall on a day that that staff member works. As inset and bank holiday are ALL Monday and Tuesday, I could see a situation where a staff member who only works Thursday/Friday (say, as we do have one who does this) would be working 39 Thursdays and 39 Fridays for 38 weeks pay. And someone who ONLY works Monday/Tuesday (again, I have 2 who do this), would have been overpaid as they would have been paid for 76 days but only worked 69 with nothing deducted from their paid annual leave.

Am I correct? And also, do staff who are paid to attend college (I pay one staff member 5 hours a week to go to college) accrue holiday on hours they are at college?

Yours confusedly,

A