Part Time and Bank Holidays

Lc80

I have just been given my holiday allowance for 2017 and just wondered if any employment professionals can clear up a few queries.

Basically I work 2 days a week, (Mondays and Tuesdays) so prorated I get 12 days annual leave. There are 8 bank holidays in 2017 and 7 of these fall on a Monday so my holiday allowance is allocated to these days and I am left with 5 days. For every two years of working, my company offers an additional one day annual leave, however the additional day for me obviously gets prorated. I understand this is how it works but surely the bank holidays should therefore also be prorated and I shouldn’t have the full 7 days taken from my annual leave? I job share and my colleague who works Wednesday – Friday only has the Good Friday taken from her allowance and I just feel it is all very unfair. My company’s response is you can work the bank holidays if you aren’t happy so it means 2017 I will be working on Christmas day then! Any information on this would be appreciated!

Thanks

paddedjohn

If your company is closed on a bank holiday Monday and it's your normal working day then you take holiday, your employer can choose when you take all your holidays if they so wished.

Undervalued

Lc80 wrote: »

I have just been given my holiday allowance for 2017 and just wondered if any employment professionals can clear up a few queries.

Basically I work 2 days a week, (Mondays and Tuesdays) so prorated I get 12 days annual leave. There are 8 bank holidays in 2017 and 7 of these fall on a Monday so my holiday allowance is allocated to these days and I am left with 5 days. For every two years of working, my company offers an additional one day annual leave, however the additional day for me obviously gets prorated. I understand this is how it works but surely the bank holidays should therefore also be prorated and I shouldn’t have the full 7 days taken from my annual leave? I job share and my colleague who works Wednesday – Friday only has the Good Friday taken from her allowance and I just feel it is all very unfair. My company’s response is you can work the bank holidays if you aren’t happy so it means 2017 I will be working on Christmas day then! Any information on this would be appreciated!

Thanks

Then your employer is being very flexible and, in effect, you can choose when you take all of your holiday.

As the previous poster has said an employer is quite entitled to dictate when you can and cannot take your holiday so on the face of it you are doing well here.

You cannot be treated less favourably than a full time employee just because you are part time but it does not sound as though you are.

Lc80

Thank you for your responses regarding flexibility when offering what days I take as holiday. However I would like to know if the bank holiday should be prorated like everything else is?

elsien

What is the FTE holiday allowance - x days plus BH or x days including BH?

Guest101

Lc80 wrote: »

Thank you for your responses regarding flexibility when offering what days I take as holiday. However I would like to know if the bank holiday should be prorated like everything else is?

Ignore the fact their bank holidays, it's irrelevant.


You get 5.6 weeks holiday per year minimum, which for you is just over 11 days.


If your employer wants you to take them on bank holidays then that when you take them

t0rt0ise

As elsien says it's important to know what the full timers get before you can say whether you should have the bank holidays prorated. If they have the 8 bank holidays off as extra to their leave then yes, you should get the prorated equivalent added to your holiday.

Guest101

t0rt0ise wrote: »

As elsien says it's important to know what the full timers get before you can say whether you should have the bank holidays prorated. If they have the 8 bank holidays off as extra to their leave then yes, you should get the prorated equivalent added to your holiday.

Not necessarily - there's long term service awards

getmore4less

12 days(for a 2 day week) is equivalent to the full timers on 30 days(including BH).

The BH allowance is already prorata in the 12 days

it is just tough that your work days include the BH Mondays.

if the employer gives you the option to works some or all of them then take them up on the offer and work them and chose your own holidays.

Kynthia

You are currently taking 7 days off work on the bank holidays and this needs to be deducted from your total leave allocation. As you work 20% of full time hours you get only 20% of bank holiday leave so will need to take the rest out of your annual leave allocation. You are taking more bank holiday leave in proportion to your working hours than others do. That is not unfair it is just a fact and one of tge downsides of working on a Monday when you are part time. Obviously Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day won't always fall on a Monday and Tuesday so some years you won't be as impacted as this year. Your options are to work those days if your employer lets you, which you've said yours kindly will allow, or try to change your working days.

Undervalued

Legally, as you work two days a week, you must get at least two-fifths of 28 days holiday per year. That is 11.2 days. Bank holidays are irrelevant in that calculation, you simply get 11.2 days off when you would otherwise have been working.

Any entitlement over and above that is contractual and can have whatever terms and conditions the employer wishes attached.