Advice needed - UK law

mariehill

Hi all, I am in need of a bit of advice if anybody is an expert in this field. I was recently made redundant, my last day of employment was 03.07.15. I had taken 4.5 days more annual leave than I had accrued, so I was expecting to be paid -1.5days for July (because I had redundancy pay I was still expecting a payment). When receiving my payslip I am struggling to understand what they've done.

Before deductions they have calculated the day rates in the following way:
Salary for 3 days: annual salary / 12 months / 31 days x 3 days.
However for the deducted 4.5 days annual leave they have calculated the day rate as: annual salary / 52 weeks / 5 days x 4.5 days.

This has resulted in a small salary for the 3 days but a large deduction for the 4.5 days. I cannot understand why the day rate would be different for the two calculations.

There is a part of me that just wants to leave it be and move on as the whole process has been such a nightmare, but there is another part of me that feels that it has to be correct, and it doesn't look as though it is to me.

Can anybody tell me if this is normal?

Thanks

Marie

Notfarfromtheborder

Looks like they are taking the proverbial here


If they are calculating your 'day' rate as annual salary / 12 months / 31 days


They are assuming every month has 31 days in it, and you work all of them, including weekends. A total of 372 days in a year which is not possible.


You holiday pay is calculated at 260 days a year which is why there will be a massive disparity in the two rates


Can't help with your question of this being normal or not, but it does not look right to me