Working part time mid-week days and bank holiday entitlements

ManicMum

Hello

can someone help me re. the above. If I work part time on mid week days do I get re-compensed somehow for missing out on bank holidays or is it just tough luck? If I worked Mondays and Fridays I'd get more time off and paid for it than if I work mid-week. What is the law on this?

Thank you.

Googlewhacker

what does your contract actually say your holiday entitlement is (ie does it say you get X amount of days of or does it say X amount plus BH's) and do other staff have the bank holidays off?

ManicMum

Hi. not got that far yet! only just been offered the job but trying to work out childcare, how many weeks required for, annual leave days I can use for childcare etc.

cheers. It's a decent organisation so imagine they will follow whatever the general protocol is. Just been out of the loop for a while work-wise.

thanks

Notmyrealname

Bank holidays are included by many companies in the statutory 28 days holiday. So unless BH are paid in addition you're only entitled to 28 days pro rata.

getmore4less

You are entitled to prorata what a full time worker gets.

That will include their BH entitlement.

SO what do full tinmers get

What are full timers days/hours

what will your part time days/hours be

apples1

If you work half the hours a full timer gets you will get half the annual holiday (inc bank hol) entitelment. If you work one fifth of a full timers hours you will get one fifth of the entitlement and so on.

Bear in mind when thinking about child care planning that it may be that you cannot choose when you want to take those holiday days though - all or some of the days you have off as holiday could be dictated by the employer. As far as possible I give staff holiday for days they request from their "normal" holiday entitlement but I allocate the "bank holiday" entitlement days for those that don't normally work Mondays and Fridays (like you would be). I give those days off when it is the quietest time of year for our business.

If you are counting on taking your holiday in school holidays for example then be sure you will be able to do so.

Just so you don't feel "cheated" you should also know that for those who work part time but do work Mondays they would not be entitled to all the bank holidays off. One of my part timers owes me 1 bank holiday a year so she has to work an extra day to make this up. This could be working one of the bank holidays or another day.

Hope that helps. Good luck with the new job and well done for checking it all out up front!

ManicMum

thanks folks.

KiKi

You need to:

a) add up the BH and AL entitlement of a full timer
b) pro-rata that for your hours / days

That is your PAID LEAVE entitlement for the year - forget the BH and the AL split. As a part-timer it's much easier to look at the total.


What happens then is:
a) if a BH falls on your working day, and no-one works on BHs, then you get the day off and have to take it out of your total paid leave entitlement
b) if a BH falls on a non-working day, it has no impact on you at all


If, as a part timer, you work Mondays in an organisation that closes for bank holidays, you often get a raw deal. You still get the same total time off, but you have less flexibility when to take it. Working mid week you're going to have a lot more flexibility that other part time colleagues who don't work that pattern.

KiKi

paddedjohn

apples1 wrote: »

If you work half the hours a full timer gets you will get half the annual holiday (inc bank hol) entitelment. If you work one fifth of a full timers hours you will get one fifth of the entitlement and so on.

Bear in mind when thinking about child care planning that it may be that you cannot choose when you want to take those holiday days though - all or some of the days you have off as holiday could be dictated by the employer. As far as possible I give staff holiday for days they request from their "normal" holiday entitlement but I allocate the "bank holiday" entitlement days for those that don't normally work Mondays and Fridays (like you would be). I give those days off when it is the quietest time of year for our business.

If you are counting on taking your holiday in school holidays for example then be sure you will be able to do so.

Just so you don't feel "cheated" you should also know that for those who work part time but do work Mondays they would not be entitled to all the bank holidays off. One of my part timers owes me 1 bank holiday a year so she has to work an extra day to make this up. This could be working one of the bank holidays or another day.

Hope that helps. Good luck with the new job and well done for checking it all out up front!

This would depend on how many days the part timer worked, if they worked 2 days a week they would be entitled to 11.2 days leave so even after taking the 8 bank hols off they would still have 3.2 days left.

I take it that your employee only works mondays.

getmore4less

paddedjohn wrote: »

This would depend on how many days the part timer worked, if they worked 2 days a week they would be entitled to 11.2 days leave so even after taking the 8 bank hols off they would still have 3.2 days left.

I take it that your employee only works mondays.

Even just working mondays they would be entitled to a minimum of 5.6 days, this would never be short a full day since the maximum no of Monday bank holidays is 6
NY, Easter, 2 may, aug, Xmas or BD. but is typicaly less.

monday bank holidays
2010 5
2011 6
2012 5
2013 4
2014 4

Just so you don't feel "cheated" you should also know that for those who work
part time but do work Mondays they would not be entitled to all the bank
holidays off. One of my part timers owes me 1 bank holiday a year so she has to
work an extra day to make this up. This could be working one of the bank
holidays or another day.

This needs further explanation because it is wrong based on statutory holidays.

paddedjohn

Good point about the bank hols.