Help with Holiday Pay

farrelly92

Hi

The company I work for recently split up into two and because of the store I work in I would be part of the new company, owned by one of the partners of the old company. I was told the only thing that would be changing is my holiday pay, which is paid to me every 4 weeks with my wages, would be calculated as an average of my past 12 weeks work.

This got me thinking about my current holiday pay and I realised I have been getting the same amount of holiday pay, around 6 hours, since I began over 4 years ago. Its a Part-Time Job and im not not contracted to any hours but my hours change from week to week and its defiantly more than an average of 6 hours. In my Contract it said "Your holiday pay will be based on your average earning over the previous 12 weeks."

I may be wrong, but does this mean I add my hours up from the previous 12 weeks, divide them by 12 and multiply by my hourly rate? Assuming I am correct they have been seriously underpaying me in terms of holiday pay. Is there any way I can get this back?

If I am wrong could someone explain how I do work this out.

Thanks for any help on this

getmore4less

There are a few issues here.

You should be acruing holiday and taking it, not getting it paid monthly

Minimum holidays is 5.6 weeks


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Simple way to check you get at least the minimum holiday is to use 12.07% of the hours worked.

You need to resolve any outstanding payments as part of this transfer of employment.