new employee holiday entitlements.. help

2704annie

hi im a new employee...im part time and do 25hrs per week..does anyone know what my holiday entitlements are as my boss says that its 1.5 days per month for new employees but family members are telling me that it doesnt matter that im a new employee i should have same as others that work there... does anyone know?? thankyou x

DCFC79

When is your holiday year from & too ?

eg is it the same as the tax year or a normal calender year ?

I now you get 5.6 weeks of paid holiday each year.

Maybe try this.

or this

paddedjohn

How many days a week do you work? Multiply your working days by 5.6 and that is the minimum inc bank hols that you should get, eg you work 3 days then you are entitled to 16.8 days hol which can be rounded up but not down.

2704annie

hi thanks 4 ur help...its from oct-sept...i started work on 8th april and i work 5hr each day for 5days x

anamenottaken

2704annie wrote: »

hi im a new employee...im part time and do 25hrs per week..does anyone know what my holiday entitlements are as my boss says that its 1.5 days per month for new employees but family members are telling me that it doesnt matter that im a new employee i should have same as others that work there... does anyone know?? thankyou x

If they want to give longer serving employees more holiday, they can.

As a new part-time employee your holiday entitlement is the same as [STRIKE]pro rata to[/STRIKE] a new full-time employee in terms of days (but your days are shorter than theirs).

So find out what new full-time employees would get [STRIKE]and how many hours a week they work. Divide their entitlement by the number of hours they work in a week and multiply that by 25.[/STRIKE] That is your entitlement in a full year. Divide by 12 for approximate monthly rate at which you accrue holiday.

Your employer must provide you with written information about holidays. Get that and come back here with the wording if you think there is any problem with your not getting a full entitlement.

[STRIKE]If[/STRIKE] As your employment didn't begin on the 1st of a month, don't accept that you don't get any accrual of holiday in that month. I mention that because some employers have been known to try that one on. You are entitled to a pro rata amount for the month.

2704annie

anamenottaken wrote: »

If they want to give longer serving employees more holiday, they can.

As a new part-time employee your holiday entitlement is the same as [STRIKE]pro rata to[/STRIKE] a new full-time employee in terms of days (but your days are shorter than theirs).

So find out what new full-time employees would get [STRIKE]and how many hours a week they work. Divide their entitlement by the number of hours they work in a week and multiply that by 25.[/STRIKE] That is your entitlement in a full year. Divide by 12 for approximate monthly rate at which you accrue holiday.

Your employer must provide you with written information about holidays. Get that and come back here with the wording if you think there is any problem with your not getting a full entitlement.

[STRIKE]If[/STRIKE] As your employment didn't begin on the 1st of a month, don't accept that you don't get any accrual of holiday in that month. I mention that because some employers have been known to try that one on. You are entitled to a pro rata amount for the month.

thanks my hubby works for same company...he gets 28 days per year x

anamenottaken

2704annie wrote: »

thanks my hubby works for same company...he gets 28 days per year x

OK, if any bank holidays are included in that, he gets the minimum statutory entitlement for someone working 5 days a week.

If you take the 8 customary bank holidays off that entitlement, 20 is still more than 1.5 days a month.

With a start date of 8 April and a holiday year ending 30 September, your holiday entitlement in the current year is 13.5 days. (That's using the statutory holiday calculator available on https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement.)

2704annie

well....the boss has told me that its because im a new employee that i dont get same as hubby and that until 8th april next year im only entitled to 1.5 days per month according to him thats only 7 days ...does it make a difference that im a new employee??

anamenottaken

2704annie wrote: »

well....the boss has told me that its because im a new employee that i dont get same as hubby and that until 8th april next year im only entitled to 1.5 days per month according to him thats only 7 days ...does it make a difference that im a new employee??

Your boss is wrong. Being a new employee makes no difference to your legal entitlement to 5.6 weeks holiday. If he wanted to he can give more paid leave to "old" employees but not less than the legal minimum to a new one.

He needs to give you written particulars of employment which include information about holiday entitlements. These written details have to be given to employees within the first 8 weeks of employment - so you need to have them no later than 2 June. Obviously he could give them earlier than that!

It's also important to watch what they do about bank holidays. If the bank holidays are part of the 28 days then, in the part of the current holiday year when you will have worked, there are only 3 bank holidays (3/8 of all the BHs in a year) but you will have worked almost 4/8 of a year. This year they must be clear that bank holidays (if not worked and not an addition to the minimum leave) are taken off the total entitlement rather than sayig your holiday entitlement is the proportion of the 20 days plus any bank holidays which fall before 30 September.

To be clear about what they are doing, you need those written particulars.

2704annie

thankyou you sooo much for your help i am going to ask my boss for written perticulars of my employment and see what that says and go from there thank you again x

paddedjohn

Regardless of bank hols, as long as you get 28 day paid leave for the full year you are ok.