holiday allowance question please

GlamGirlie

Hi, wonder if any HR type people can help, please.

Last August I started a part-time role at a new company following maternity leave. I've always been full time before now so never had to contend with working out what holiday allowance I'm entitled to!

I work 30 hours/week, spread over 4 days: two days are 8 hours, one day is 7.5 hours and one day is 6.5 hours.

I don't understand how the allowance is worked out, and no one seems able to explain it to me (its a very small company, they use online Govt calculators so they say).

My full time colleagues get 20 days/year, plus all the bank holidays, so 27 in total. I only get 16.

The company says they use a Govt calculator to work it out hourly as I do different number of hours on different days. They then deduct bank holidays from this or something, leaving me 16 days.

I've asked so many times and they don't seem to understand it themselves so can't explain it to me!

Can anyone help, please? Sorry if I'm just really stupid.......:embarasse

elsien

Why are they deducting all the bank holidays? Some of them must fall into your working week?

GlamGirlie

I work Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat.

No idea why, never been part time before?!

paddedjohn

You are entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday wether you work 1 day or 5 days a week, in your case you work 4 days so are entitled to 22.4 days holiday or 168 hours.

GlamGirlie

Thanks Paddedjohn..... so they shouldn't be deducting the bank holidays then?!

Can I ask where you sourced that info, please? So I can discuss it with them next week!

chanie

They've deducted the bank holidays as presumably your company is shut on those days, so, you are getting time off, it's just at their choosing.

paddedjohn

GlamGirlie wrote: »

Thanks Paddedjohn..... so they shouldn't be deducting the bank holidays then?!

Can I ask where you sourced that info, please? So I can discuss it with them next week!

It's the law, try looking on the gov.uk site

Edited as per post #16

p00hsticks

GlamGirlie wrote: »

I work 30 hours/week, spread over 4 days: two days are 8 hours, one day is 7 .5hours and one day is 6.5 hours.

GlamGirlie wrote: »

I work Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat.

As you work different hours each day I'd suggest that they should probably be doing the calculation in hours rather than days.

So 5.6 weeks x 30 hours gives you a total of 168 hours holiday.

If there are any compulsory leave days (bank holidays, mandatory closure between Christmas and New Year etc) that correspond to your normal working days then you should subtract the appropriate number of hours for those days in order to leave you with the number of hours that you can choose when to take.

General_Grant

p00hsticks wrote: »

As you work different hours each day I'd suggest that they should probably be doing the calculation in hours rather than days.

So 5.6 weeks x 30 hours gives you a total of 168 hours holiday.

If there are any compulsory leave days (bank holidays, mandatory closure between Christmas and New Year etc) that correspond to your normal working days then you should subtract the appropriate number of hours for those days in order to leave you with the number of hours that you can choose when to take.

I agree with p00hsticks's answer.

By the way, if your full-time colleagues really do get only 27 days, they are being short changed as there are 8 banks holidays in England and Wales (NYD, 2 at Easter, 2 in May, August Bank Hol, 2 at Christmas).

getmore4less

My full time colleagues get 20 days/year, plus all the bank holidays, so 27 in total

there are 8 standard BH and statutory min is 5.6 weeks/28 days for a 5 day a week worker.

getmore4less

woops new job.

[STRIKE]Don't forget you accrue holidays awhile on maternity and that should be at your old hours not your new ones.

depending on holiday year and how much holiday you took before maternity you may have some carry over.
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as above with your new hours they are better of working it on hours and ONLY taking hours off the total for days you get paid but don't work(be they holiday booked or BH if the place closes and you get paid that day).