Holiday entitlement for part timers

mazda6

jobbingmusician wrote: »

Everyone is entitled to (the statutory minimum of) 5.6 weeks' holiday a year, which includes bank holidays.

You say you work 15 hours a week, but don't say how your hours are allocated over the 4 days. If you work for exactly the same period every day, then the calculation above will do - you are entitled to 22.4 days, which must be rounded up rather than down.

If you don't work the same number of hours each day, it is more sensible to work out your holiday entitlement in hours. You are entitled to the statutory minimum of 84 hours a year (plus any additional entitlement, pro-rataed, which is given to FT workers)

Just seen your response above, where you think FT workers get 20 days. Yes, they probably do, but this is PLUS bank hols. You are entitled to a proportion of the ordinary holidays they get, plus a proportion of the BH they get, even though your work days are not normally on bank holidays. And of course, some of your work days ARE likely to be BH as Christmas falls on a different day each year, for example.

Yes full timers get 28 to include bank holidays, but currently I don't use any of my entitlement on bank holidays for Christmas? I work 3 days at 4 hours and 1 at 3 hours
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jobbingmusician

As far as holidays go, there really isn't any difference between 'ordinary' holiday and 'bank holiday' holiday. You have 22.4 days to 'spend'. It is always true that employers can tell you when to spend this holiday, but most allow you to choose or suggest when you would like to take them. The exception is often bank holidays, when lots of businesses are closed. So if Christmas day falls on a day when you normally work 4 hours, that will use 4 hours of your holiday (assuming of course that your business closes on Xmas day). If it falls on your 3 hour day it will use 3 hours of your holiday. That's why I suggested working your leave out in hours.

You don't normally USE any of your entitlement on BHs, but you do EARN holiday as the bank holidays flip past and you haven't had them as holidays because you weren't working that day anyway. Does that make more sense to you? You are entitled to a bit of leave for the days when the full timers get Monday off but you weren't working that day, and any other BH when you weren't working.

mazda6

So does this mean that 20 hours is actually wrong as well then? I don't want to open a can of worms for everyone else in the office as I don't know how much holiday they all get, we all work different hours/days, we are only a small office so don't want to upset anyone by having there own entitlement reviewed!

Diamandis

No, 28 days is fine (20 + 8 bank holidays).

As long as your holidays are at least 22.4 days (INCLUDING BANK HOLIDAYS) then your allowance is correct.