Holiday entitlement

billyboylost

A neighbor has being offered a temporary job working 3 days a week. Her holiday entitlement is 16.8 days a year. This figure is including public and bank holidays in her 20 days holiday a year Pro rate which a lot of company’s do now.

Working 5 days a week

Most workers who work a 5 day week must receive 28 days paid annual leave per year.
This is calculated by multiplying a normal week (5 days) by the annual entitlement of 5.6 weeks.

Working part-time

A worker works 3 days a week. Their leave is calculated by multiplying 3 by 5.6, which comes to 16.8 days of annual paid leave. They are including the bank holidays within the 16.8 days

But her company contract says:

(a) All public and bank holidays in England and Wales; and
(b) Pro rate of 20 working days in each holiday year:

I read that to mean 8 public and bank holidays PLUS 12 days being the Pro rate of 20 working days?
So a total of 20 days holiday entitlement, it’s the AND between a and b that’s makes me think this?
Anyone have any thoughts on this please? Thanks

paddedjohn

First off what days will she be working?

agrinnall

If it is interpreted in the way you do it then she would be better off than anyone working full time, which I doubt is the intention. I'm pretty sure the employer will argue that she is entitled to 16.8 days, and if she makes a big thing of it she'll soon have 365 days a year holiday.

billyboylost

paddedjohn wrote: »

First off what days will she be working?

Any of 3 days Monday to Friday.

getmore4less

You need the rest of the context for part timers.

Do they normally close BH?

billyboylost

getmore4less wrote: »

You need the rest of the context for part timers.

Do they normally close BH?

Yes the office does not open on BH

Cirias

I work as an HR analyst and spend a lot of my time sorting out holiday queries and calculations! The 16.8 sounds right to me, but it should really be rounded up to 17. I just ran this through my own holiday calculator and it's coming out as 16.8 too. That does include Bank/Public Holidays, meaning there would be 9 days left "free".

The "pro-rate" 20 days is probably referring to the statutory holiday for a Full-time employee, minus the BH days. So, pro-rated for a part time person on 3 days would make that 9 days.

agrinnall

Cirias wrote: »

The 16.8 sounds right to me, but it should really be rounded up to 17.

There's no reason whatsoever for it to be rounded up, although it can't be rounded down. My own holiday allowance is 29.6 days or 217.56 hours (I'm 0.8 FTE) calculated on the number of hours that I work in a year.