Holidays Reduced!! No Notice

strawbell

Hi

Hope someone can advise. I have just noticed that my holiday as been reduced from 10 days to 7 days. I have worked p/t for the last 6 years and have always had 10 days since. Holiday entitilment for f/t staff is 25 days plus b/h. I work 15 hrs and so therefore pro-rata mine is 10.

I work mondays & Tuesdays. The company does not open on any bank holiday.

Today I have contacted HR who say that my holiday was reduced as I'm only allowed 4 days bank holiday pro-rata??? so they have taken 3 of my holidays away. Surely this isn't correct??

Thanks


Debbie

getmore4less

So full timers get 33 days inc BH,

Your prorata is 2/5 so 13.2 incuding BH.

Were your 10 days previously inc BH or did you get those on top?

strawbell

Hi

I have always had 10 days holiday plus bank holiday.

Thanks

Debbie

Maxjessdru

I think what they have already done is deducted the bank holiday days already (as your co is closed on a bank holiday).

Your pro-rata entitlement is 13 days as mentioned above (to include bank holidays). 6 bank holidays this year fall on Mondays or Tuesdays (which you will need to take as holiday days as your workplace is closed), which therefore leaves you with 7 days remaining. Most places I know, when you work part-time, you get the bank holidays pro-rated as, otherwise, you would technically be getting more holiday days than your full-time equivalent colleagues.

KiKi

As gm4l says, your TOTAL paid leave entitlement should be 13.2. Not 10 plus BHs or 7 plus BHs.

As a part-timer it's done by days. Your AL and BHs should be pro rata. If a BH falls on your working day, you have to take it out of your leave; if it doesn't, there's no change to your leave. That's the lawful way of calculating it to make sure that you are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged through being part time.

I *suspect* that they have realised that 10 plus BHs was wrong, and have tried to just take 13.2 and take off the 6 BHs which fall on your working days this year to work out your AL. So whilst numerically correct, they have made the wrong calculation. It's 13.2 TOTAL. Not AL + BH. Talk to HR / your manager and explain how they should calculate it.

HTH
KiKi

SarEl

KiKi wrote: »

Talk to HR / your manager and explain how they should calculate it.

Carefully and nicely talk to them! Nobody has yet pointed this out but you have been overpaid for six years - and the employer could decide to claim it back!

Uncertain

Maxjessdru wrote: »

Most places I know, when you work part-time, you get the bank holidays pro-rated as, otherwise, you would technically be getting more holiday days than your full-time equivalent colleagues.

Most maybe but not all.

Some say XX days pro rata plus bank holidays if they fall on days normally worked. Obviously then there is a significant advantage in only working Mondays!

Providing everybody is at least getting pro rata the statutory minimum (28 days full time) then this is perfectly legal.

strawbell

Thanks for all your replys.

You think that would have written a letter saying sorry but we have messed up for the last 6 years and this is what we are going to do. The lady who sits next to me works the same days and same hours and hers remains the same:mad:

I will did out my contract and see what it says, I know I didn't get a new contract when I went part time.

Thanks

KiKi

SarEl wrote: »

Carefully and nicely talk to them!

Well, I take that for granted!