Please help! Pro rata to full time question.

eventing88

Hi there,

I work at a school and since September 2011 have been on a pro rata (term time only) contract. My school asked me if I would like to go full time in the same roll which I did, so I agreed to take on a full time contract which began on the first day of the summer holiday 2012.

My question is - as I have been paid pro rata all year but did not take the 5 week summer holiday, should I receive a lump sum since this summer holiday would have been factored in to my pro rata salary?

I have asked the payroll clerk at work who never got back to me. I don't feel I am able to ask again for fear of causing waves and I am feeling really stressed about it as I do not trust them!

Please help me! I have looked everywhere online but can't find any info.

Many thanks in advance

Mark

DVardysShadow

eventing88 wrote: »

My question is - as I have been paid pro rata all year but did not take the 5 week summer holiday, should I receive a lump sum since this summer holiday would have been factored in to my pro rata salary?

Rhetorical question: If you had left your part time job at the start of the summer holiday and gone to a job with a completely different employer, would you expect this lump sum?

If your pro rata contract required you only to attend in term time but paid you a regular monthly salary throughout the year, then you are entitled as I see it to a payment and they should handle it as though you had left for a job with another employer.

getmore4less

AIUI you are not entitled to a lump sum but you are entitled to any acrued untaken holidays that would have been paid.

You will need to look at how you were paid for the hours and holidays and what the holiday year was/is

It will depend on the exact details.

KiKi

eventing88 wrote: »

I work at a school and since September 2011 have been on a pro rata (term time only) contract. My school asked me if I would like to go full time in the same roll which I did, so I agreed to take on a full time contract which began on the first day of the summer holiday 2012.

My question is - as I have been paid pro rata all year but did not take the 5 week summer holiday, should I receive a lump sum since this summer holiday would have been factored in to my pro rata salary?

Let me clarify: you were paid a part-time salary whilst you were part-time, You've been paid a full time salary since you went full time.

But your part-time salary was paid according to the whole year's holiday (ie, you were paid each month, regardless of holidays, for a 52 week year)? I can see why you think you may be owed a small payment. However, I think it's much more likely that your contract / pols and procs covers this separately. Because if people leave part way through a school year, are all their salaries recalculated? I can't imagine so. And it's not just the Summer hols, it's the Christmas ones, half term as well which would affect your pro rata salary in this case...where do you stop?

Be aware that until you have exactly 12 months' service you don't want to make waves at all, as you won't have protection for unfair dismissal.

I'd ask the clerk again, just to clarify - say it with no expectation, though, as I can't imagine this isn't covered somewhere. If someone left at Easter would they get their salaries re-calculated for the first four months based on Summer and Christmas? I can't think so. BUT I don't work in a school and I do know they work the pay differently.

Sorry not to be more help.
KiKi