Holiday entitlement for part timers.

LittleVoice

JodiePearce wrote: »

Hi, I work 20 a week but I do 4 hours each Day. My employee says I get 1o days a year? Wrong surly!!!

If you work 20 hours a week and each day is 4 hours then obviously you work 5 days a week.

Your entitlement is to a minimum of 28 days (each of 4 hours). If you would normally have worked on a day on which a bank holiday falls and you are not required to work it, that comes out of your entitlement.

Your employeR should be asked to explain how they are calculating 10 days.

KiKi

JodiePearce wrote: »

Hi, I work 20 a week but I do 4 hours each Day. My employee says I get 1o days a year? Wrong surly!!!

You should have the same entitlement as full timers - which is, as a minimum, 28 (which includes BHs).

It sounds like your employer may be trying (wrongly) to calculate in days, but full time hours. Ie, a full timer is 40 hours a week, and they get 20 days AL. So you work 20 (half full time) and get 10 days (half full time). Thing is, that's 10 days of FULL time hours, of 8 hours a day. So 10 days x 8 hours = 80 hours. Which is the same as 20 days at 4 hours.

The point is, they should calculate in days. You work 5 days a week, so you get 20 days AL and 8 BHs (let's say), or 28 in total. But those days off are only 4 hours each - not 8 hours.

If they INSIST on calculating in hours, then as I said above, it's 10 days of FULL time hours, so it's still 80 hours, so it's still 20 days for you.

HTH
KiKi

JodiePearce

Thank you guys! Ill let you know how I get on tomorrow when I bring it up!!!

Charityworker

Can you work out mine please? I work 16 hours a week spread over 4 days. Thanks.

LittleVoice

Charityworker wrote: »

Can you work out mine please? I work 16 hours a week spread over 4 days. Thanks.

Without knowing what an equivalent full-timer would be entitled to, we can work out only the minimum to which you would be entitled.

You don't say whether your 16 hours are divided equally among the 4 days so we would have to work it out in hours.

You are entitled to a minimum 5.6 weeks holiday. The legal entitlement is measured in weeks.

So you are entitled to 5.6 x 16 hours = 89.6 hours paid leave each holiday year.

If a full-time worker would get more than 28 days holiday then you would be entitled to more on a pro rata basis.

paddedjohn

Charityworker wrote: »

Can you work out mine please? I work 16 hours a week spread over 4 days. Thanks.

You are entitled to 4/5 the full minimum entitlement, which = 22.4 days leave.

Savvy_Sue

anamenottaken wrote: »

So you are entitled to the minimum 11.2 days rounded up to 12 (because parts of a day cannot be rounded down).

It could be rounded up to 11.5 days, or left at 11.2, but you are right that it can't be rounded down.

Charityworker

paddedjohn wrote: »

You are entitled to 4/5 the full minimum entitlement, which = 22.4 days leave.

Thanks for that. Interesting, they are only giving me 15 days holiday.

getmore4less

Charityworker wrote: »

Thanks for that. Interesting, they are only giving me 15 days holiday.

does that include Bank holidays?

anamenottaken

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

It could be rounded up to 11.5 days, or left at 11.2, but you are right that it can't be rounded down.

My use of "you" was to address the poster who had already indicated that they received 12 days worth of holiday.

You are right to point out the more general point.