Full Time to Part Time Salary Query?

davidjamieson85

Good Morning All,

I am new to these forums so apologies if a similar question has been asked before.

My partner is returning to work after maternity leave and her work has agreed that she can work part time.

The weekly hours that her work operate are a bit strange but in essence it is
Monday - 7 hours
Tuesday - 7.5 hours
Wednesday - 7.5 hours
Thursday - 7.5 hours
Friday - 5.5 hours
Total - 35 hours
She has chosen to work Tues-Thurs giving her a 4 day weekend each week.

We assumed it would be a case of dividing her salary by 35 (total weekly hours) and multiplying by 22.5 (hours she works).
She has now received her first payslip and after a quick calculation it turns out that her work has worked out the pro-rata rate by dividing by 5 (total working days) and multiplying by 3 (days she works)

As she works the 3 longest days it means she is loosing out on around £900 a year when her pro rate rate is calculated on days rather than hours and we would like to if there is any guidelines/laws on how part time salaries are worked out, especially when there are multiple working day lengths?

I appreciate any response on this matter before it is brought up at her work.

Thanks

LittleVoice

Before agreeing to the part-time working, was there an agreement that she would be paid pro rata? If there was, what was the pro rata described as being pro rated to - full-timer daily rate, full-timer hourly rate?

Before maternity leave, was she salaried or paid per hour?

davidjamieson85

Thanks for your response LittleVoice

Before maternity she was salaried.

She did receive a letter which stated her new salary would be pro-rata from her old salary. I will hunt out the letter when i get home from work and tell you what it said word for word.

Thanks

Takeaway_Addict

davidjamieson85 wrote: »

Thanks for your response LittleVoice

Before maternity she was salaried.

She did receive a letter which stated her new salary would be pro-rata from her old salary. I will hunt out the letter when i get home from work and tell you what it said word for word.

Thanks

Did she request a cut of hours or days?

I would just ask them before going in with legislation, just say you thought the hours would be pro ratered.

Does she get overtime per hour or days in lieu?

LittleVoice

If she was salaried before, how did they work out her holiday entitlement? With those varied day lengths, they should really have been working it out in hours given that if she had only taken Mondays and Fridays as holiday (and most bank holidays are on these days) then she would effectively have had less holiday than if she had taken all Wednesdays and Thursdays.

By the way, I do think that working out a daily rate for the part-time pay is not really fair. However it could be said that working on Mondays and Fridays means getting an enhanced hourly rate because those days are less attractive as a work day (because of the long weekend possibilities).