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Do apprentices get paid annual leave?
Feyfangirl
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Basically to sum up, am a 23 year old level 2 nursery apprentice, (half way through it) get paid the usual minimum wage of £3.50 per hour. (contracted for 30 hours per week) Normally I have been paid 438.00 on a monthly basis...
This month though I see I've only been paid 385.00. My manager informed me that I had a lot of holiday stacked up unused, and I would need to take the annual leave, especially as we had so few children in over the holidays I wasn't really needed. So I took the week off... but I have a funny feeling that they've basically deducted the week's pay from my usual amount
I have had money related issues with this employer regarding them swallowing overtime, saying one thing and then another. Lost over 50 hours of overtime over christmas as they informed me I had been overpaid. My basic question is this, as an apprentice, am I entitled to paid annual leave? I looked in my contract, couldn't find anything relating to it... I have tried to ask them before but due to having Aspergers and anxiety issues I get flustered easily) . thanks in advance!
Basically to sum up, am a 23 year old level 2 nursery apprentice, (half way through it) get paid the usual minimum wage of £3.50 per hour. (contracted for 30 hours per week) Normally I have been paid 438.00 on a monthly basis...
This month though I see I've only been paid 385.00. My manager informed me that I had a lot of holiday stacked up unused, and I would need to take the annual leave, especially as we had so few children in over the holidays I wasn't really needed. So I took the week off... but I have a funny feeling that they've basically deducted the week's pay from my usual amount
I have had money related issues with this employer regarding them swallowing overtime, saying one thing and then another. Lost over 50 hours of overtime over christmas as they informed me I had been overpaid.
My basic question is this, as an apprentice, am I entitled to paid annual leave? I looked in my contract, couldn't find anything relating to it... I have tried to ask them before but due to having Aspergers and anxiety issues I get flustered easily) . thanks in advance! "No one can change the past. The only thing we can do is strive to make up for our mistakes. Why must we make up for our mistakes, you ask? Because in so doing...we can find the way back to our path. And once we've found our path we can move on from our past mistakes toward a brighter future"
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Short answer is yes.
Does your contract definitely specify 30 hours per week? Ie not zero hours? Even so, if you are zero hours they should be paying you more than £3.50 per hour to make up for you not having paid leave. That's the only reason I can see why they would deduct for time off.
You actually have a legal right to have in writing what your annual leave entitlement is, so it should be in there...“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
of course they do0
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If you are half way through the apprenticeship, have you been there more than a year? If you have completed a year of your apprenticeship, at 23 years old, you should bed in the national minimum wage for your age, which is £7.050
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If you are half way through the apprenticeship, have you been there more than a year? If you have completed a year of your apprenticeship, at 23 years old, you should bed in the national minimum wage for your age, which is £7.05
regrettably no, although in June I will be (I started off as casual summer help) I was taken on as an apprentice in September. Honestly though as things went rapidly downhill from there, and found the environment to be more hostile than I've ever experienced, I really want to finish my qualification and look into another career... still that's a thought for another time x thanks again
"No one can change the past. The only thing we can do is strive to make up for our mistakes. Why must we make up for our mistakes, you ask? Because in so doing...we can find the way back to our path. And once we've found our path we can move on from our past mistakes toward a brighter future"
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Can you talk to your advisor from your learning provider & maybe get them to help you talk to your line manager.0
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