holiday pay

scooby088

I am posting this for my OH, she has a small job working 4 hours per week, does she ecru holiday pay on those hours? Many thanks in advance.

Sambucus_Nigra

Accrue.

Yes, you accrue holiday pay on any hours worked.

What's the problem?

scooby088

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Accrue.

Yes, you accrue holiday pay on any hours worked.

What's the problem?

Well the problem is she works for a company that say's because she works only 4 hours per week for them that she isn't entitled to holiday. She has only been with the company for three months, I wasn't sure if she was or not.

paddedjohn

For every 4 hrs she does she accrues roughly 29 minutes holidays, so about 2 hrs per month

Sambucus_Nigra

scooby088 wrote: »

Well the problem is she works for a company that say's because she works only 4 hours per week for them that she isn't entitled to holiday. She has only been with the company for three months, I wasn't sure if she was or not.

Not entitled to holiday at all or hasn't accrued enough to take a holiday?

scooby088

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Not entitled to holiday at all or hasn't accrued enough to take a holiday?

They did say not entitled to none at all.

anamenottaken

scooby088 wrote: »

Well the problem is she works for a company that say's because she works only 4 hours per week for them that she isn't entitled to holiday. She has only been with the company for three months, I wasn't sure if she was or not.

Minimum statutory holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks paid leave a year. Part-timers (eg someone working 4 hours a week) are also entitled to 5.6 weeks paid leave but, in this case, a week is only 4 hours long.

Have they provided written particulars of her employment yet? By law they should have done so within 2 months of her start date. If they haven't, ask for a copy. If they have, read what it says about holidays.

Sambucus_Nigra

scooby088 wrote: »

They did say not entitled to none at all.

If they didn't say none at all, it just means that she hasn't worked long enough to accrue any leave.

She needs to ask when she is entitled to take some.

anamenottaken

scooby088 wrote: »

They did say not entitled to none at all.

That sounds like a double negative.

For her the annual leave entitlement is at least 5.6 weeks of 4 hours = 22.4 hours.

If she has worked there three months (let's say June to August as the three months), she will have accrued one quarter of a year's entitlement so 5.6 hours.

During that time there have been 3 bank holidays (2 in June and 1 in August). Bank holidays can be taken into account when calculating leave taken. Would she normally have worked any of those days but didn't and was still paid? If so, deduct those hours from what has been accrued.

Unless she was asking for a lot (in percentage terms) of her annual entitlement in the next few weeks then it does seem to me that she may be being denied holiday.

As I suggested before, check what her written particulars of employment say about holidays.