Part time bank holiday entitlement

Giggidy

Hi

I work 4 full days a week Monday to Thursday. I always assumed because I don't work on Fridays that I miss out on any bank holidays that fall on a Friday. A colleague recently told me I might still be entitled to days in lieu, as there were 3 bank holidays on a Friday in our holiday calendar which is April to March (Good Friday, Christmas, and New Years day)

I want to take this up with our HR person, but before I do, could you please confirm if I am entitled to days off in lieu of any bank holidays that do fall on the day that I don't work, and so how many days in total?

Thanks

glentoran99

What does your contract say?

getmore4less

Based on 4 days asuming they are equivilent to the full timers.

you are entitled to 4/5th of the holidays a full timers get.

BH are not special when it comes to holidays unless specified in a contract.

Start with how many days do you get and how many do the full timers get?

Giggidy

The full timers get 20 holidays plus bank holidays so 28 days, and my contract states I get 16 days plus bank holidays, but it doesnt say anything about what happens if it falls on my day off

glentoran99

Giggidy wrote: »

The full timers get 20 holidays plus bank holidays so 28 days, and my contract states I get 16 days plus bank holidays, but it doesnt say anything about what happens if it falls on my day off

If you are entitled to BH then you get it off in lieu pro rata

Giggidy

Thanks, so how do I work out how many days I am entitled to?

getmore4less

if the contact says +BH then that should be 24days total.

probably not what they ment but they got the contract wrong.
Is there a more explicit holiday policy that may clarify the situation?

Statutory minimum for you would be 22.4 days or 6.4BH on top of your 16days

With 3BH on a Friday they owe you a bit of holiday as you would have only had 5 BH.

I think you have something to go tio the employer with to get statutory min holidays and you may even get the 8 BH if you hold out and they don't just say it is a mistake and the BH should be prorata.

glentoran99

I would think


if its 8 bank holidays you would be entitled to 6.4 days


if you have gotten 5 off as they fell on days you are working you would be entitled to 1.4 in lieu


That's how it works in my place anyway

Guest101

glentoran99 wrote: »

I would think


if its 8 bank holidays you would be entitled to 6.4 days


if you have gotten 5 off as they fell on days you are working you would be entitled to 1.4 in lieu


That's how it works in my place anyway

But that's not what the OPs contract says.

getmore4less

The problem is a lot of places have not kept up with the WTR rules on holidays because their old holiday policies usualy cover the statutory minimum any way so they leave them alone.

Anywhere that had 4weeks + BH was over statutory to start with an meet the current minimum.


What places should be doing is putting in places generic holiday policies with proper prorata guidelines to make things easy.

Then if they want to have people of work on BH have a policay that allocates the holiday allowance to those days.

This get round all the issueswith ectr BH and changing days and par timers etc.

The OP should go in asking for their BH paid holiday as per contract and if the compnay play hard ball the fall back is to accept prorata for the statutory minimum(and the full timers), which is probably what was intended anyway and avoids the fulltimers then moaning par timers get more holiday than us.

glentoran99

Guest101 wrote: »

But that's not what the OPs contract says.

no it doesn't specify