Holiday entitlement for 4 days a week

MissSarah1972

I have seen a job advertised for 20 hours over 4 days (between Mon-Fri, 5 hours a day to be arranged) and the holiday says 12.5 days.

Do you all think this is correct? Surely 28 days/5*4 = 22.4 days

KiKi

I would assume they've left out BHs for the purposes of demonstrating AL, and on the basis of a 37.5 hour working week with 22 days AL that would be right. Or on a 40 hour working week and 25 days AL, then it would be correct. That's if they've calculated using working hours.

They're either wrong, or they've left out BHs.

Edited - because I wasn't clear on how I'd calculated that and causing confusion!!

KiKi

MissSarah1972

I just assumed that 20 days for full timers (5 days a week mon to fri) as this is an office based job that only is open Mon - Fri, therefore if you worked 4 days (regardless of the hours as I know your holiday is only paid at the rate/salary you are on) you would get 4/5ths of the holiday they get.

thanks anyway.

ktothema

You'd be better off calculating it based on your hours and using the 12.07% figure.

20hr x 12.07% x 46.2working weeks = 111.5hrs
At 5hrs a day = 22.3 days.

Not too dissimilar to your original calc though.

KiKi

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

I just assumed that 20 days for full timers (5 days a week mon to fri) as this is an office based job that only is open Mon - Fri, therefore if you worked 4 days (regardless of the hours as I know your holiday is only paid at the rate/salary you are on) you would get 4/5ths of the holiday they get.

thanks anyway.

Oh I see what you mean! Well in terms of days worked then yes, I suppose it is. I was going on the basis of working hour days (ie, if it were a 7.5 hour working day).

So yes, if you were taking days worked then it would be wrong. Either way they certainly can't have included BHs - or they are just very wrong indeed, one of the two!

KiKi

paddedjohn

If you will be working 4 days per week then you will be entitled to 22.4 day holiday minimum which can include the bank holidays, this is true if you work only 1 hr per day or 8 hrs per day as long as you do 4 day/week

MissSarah1972

paddedjohn wrote: »

If you will be working 4 days per week then you will be entitled to 22.4 day holiday minimum which can include the bank holidays, this is true if you work only 1 hr per day or 8 hrs per day as long as you do 4 day/week

That's what I thought but not per the first reply here.

A day is a day no matter how many hours you work because if you take a 'days' holiday it will only be for the hours you work.

anyway, thanks all

KiKi

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

That's what I thought but not per the first reply here.

A day is a day no matter how many hours you work because if you take a 'days' holiday it will only be for the hours you work.

anyway, thanks all

Which is why I explained I calculated in working hours and realised it sounded misleading - and that may be what the company have done, although I admit that would be unusual.

(But you have to work the same hours every day for your calculation to work - if you work different hours each day then you have to calculate in hours not days. )

KiKi

Evilm

The other possibility is they have a set 'shutdown' period and have prorata'd the 'flexible' holiday after that has already been taken out (so they've made a mistake when writing the advert).

It would be something I'd ask about if I got to interview on this one - "how did you calculate the 12.5 days paid holiday?"

princessdon

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

I have seen a job advertised for 20 hours over 4 days (between Mon-Fri, 5 hours a day to be arranged) and the holiday says 12.5 days.

Do you all think this is correct? Surely 28 days/5*4 = 22.4 days

Not right by my calculations.

Eg FTE is 37.5 hours a week. - This is 20 hours (therefore 50.333 of a FTE.

So in reality if the FTE's are given 28 days then they get just over 14 days.

Eg I am .5 FTE but work 4.5 days a week. I get my annual leave in hours but it works out as 5.6 weeks a year but is only 14 days a year.