Underpaid holiday zero hours

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davomcdave wrote: »

@getmore4less - Where did you get your numbers from? They don't agree with the UK Government website and seem to imply 6.25 weeks holiday a year (1.45/12*52). Perhaps your employer is unusually generous in which case congratulations

That does not imply 6.25 weeks you are doing your calculations wrong.

12 weeks with 1.45 weeks holiday is 13.45 weeks.

The calculation then become 1.45 * ( 52/13.54 ) = 5.606 (rounding errors)

or the other standard way to do it

Statutory holiday is 5.6 weeks for 46.4 weeks worked.
this works out as 12.07% of the worked time.

work 12 weeks * 0.1207 = 1.4484 weeks.

edit.
woops a typo got through
1.45 * ( 52/13.45 ) = 5.606

getmore4less

davomcdave wrote: »

I suspect the 12.07% is the minimum for permanent employees rather than casuals as it seems like 48 & a little bit weeks (work weeks in a year) divided by 4 (holiday weeks in a year).

Per my link above it looks like the calculation has changed for casuals to an average of the last 12 weeks in which they worked some hours. I believe that's a minimum and an employer can pay more than that if it wants to, in effect, give more holiday to casuals.

Min statutory holidays are the same for full time and part time(pro rata)

12.07% is 5.6 weeks for a 46.4 weeks worked.

Your interpretation(12 weeks gets 1 week holiday) of the the link you provided is wrong.

nothing has changed, you just don't understand the basics for paid holidays.

getmore4less

Zoebolt1 wrote: »

This is my first post so apologies if I'm in the wrong place. I began work on October 12th 2015. The job is in a university and there are hours of work there from October-may. I am employed on a zero hours contract but work 7-2.30 every day with 30 minutes unpaid break. We have no hours of work when the university is closed which is 3 weeks in December and 2 weeks in April. Up until recently I had no idea what sort of holiday I was entitled to and in

January 2016 after working 283 hours I was paid 19 hours holiday pay.

283 * 0.1207 = 34.16

I then worked a further 343 and was paid 25 hours holiday in April 2016.

343 * 0.1207 = 41.40

I then worked until the end of May and stopped work as there was none available and I went back to work at the end of September 2016. I am now due to be paid holiday again in my February 1st payslip and I have worked 499 so far since I was last paid holiday.

499 * 0.1207 = 60.23

After looking online to see how much holiday I should get I feel as though my holiday previously was underpaid and believe it may happen again. And if it was underpaid previously can I still claim it back. Thanks in advance for any responses

You need to ask how they are calculating the holiday pay.

come back with what they say, it not clear what they are doing the rate seems to be different for the two paid so far so something else is going on.

places that do term time holiday calcs often get them wrong.

edit just noticed you say 7-2.30 thats 7hr paid per day 2 of your hours are not multiple of 7?

davomcdave

getmore4less wrote: »

That does not imply 6.25 weeks you are doing your calculations wrong.

12 weeks with 1.45 weeks holiday is 13.45 weeks.

The calculation then become 1.45 * ( 52/13.54 ) = 5.606 (rounding errors)

or the other standard way to do it

Statutory holiday is 5.6 weeks for 46.4 weeks worked.
this works out as 12.07% of the worked time.

work 12 weeks * 0.1207 = 1.4484 weeks.

Thanks. It's no help to the OP of course but it's always good to learn something.