Bank holiday entitlement and part-time work

EgonSpengler_2

I have a part-time job where I work 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs). My contract says I am entitled to 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.

My holidays are calculated by taking 2/3rds of 25 days. Am I entitled to any additional time off for bank holidays, since I don't work Mondays? I'd assume not, but I've heard different things from different people.

pinkshoes

I worked the same in the past (Tue/Wed/Thu) and got 60% of the 28 days holiday (so 20 days and 8 bank holidays).

If the bank holiday fell on my working day I would have to take it from my entitlement.

nicechap

EgonSpengler wrote: »

I have a part-time job where I work 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs). My contract says I am entitled to 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.

My holidays are calculated by taking 2/3rds of 25 days. Am I entitled to any additional time off for bank holidays, since I don't work Mondays? I'd assume not, but I've heard different things from different people.

Your sums seem a little off.

Your legal entitlement is 28 days pro-rata.

It would appear your employer is claiming to be more generous by offering 25 + BH (=33 days).

As you work 3 days, the pro rata fraction is 3/5 not 2/3. So = 19.8 days. (2/3 of 25 days is 16.66 days so not enough). If however your employer is only giving you 28 days pro rata, that would be 16.8 days (so close to the 2/3 of 25 days you mentioned).

Maybe your employer means 25 days plus bank holidays falling on Tues, Wed & Thurs (e.g. Xmas, Boxing Day and New Years Day can but Easter and May & Aug Bank Holidays never will). Some years however, Xmas, Boxing Day and or New Years Day will fall on a Monday, Friday, Sat or Sun.

I suspect you need to re-read your contract and politely query things directly with your employer or ask your union rep to explain it to you.

[Deleted User]

Your annual leave entitlement is 19.8 days, calculated as follows:
25 + 8 = 33 x 60% (i.e. 3/5ths of a Full-Time Equivalent) = 19.8

Your part-time contract of employment should make it clear how your leave entitlement is pro-rata'd compared to a FTE, but if not, ask HR for an explanation.

nomorekids

I work 3 days a week, Mon, Tues, Wed. I get 17 days holiday and if a bank holiday falls on a Mon, Tues, Wed I have to cross off a holiday day inorder to get paid for it.

EgonSpengler_2

Thank you all for your replies. It's much appreciated. 3/5ths makes sense. Based on my calculations, my holidays for this year have been calculated correctly.

However, it appears I was not given the correct amount of holidays in the last two holiday-years. By correct, I mean I was 2 days short per year - based on the amount of holiday specified in my contract. I was given enough holiday based on statutory requirements. Would it be worth mentioning this to my manager to see if they will honour additional days to make up for the shortfall?

I would understand if they said no, as the onus is on me to check my contract and make sure pay/holidays etc. are correct. On the flip side, when we submit holiday requests we get a slip back saying "x-amount of days requested have been approved. You now have y-amount of days remaining". Previously on these slips, the amount remaining has always been based on holidays, excluding bank holiday entitlement (hence the shortfall). On the most recent reply to holiday request from my new manager, it has bank holiday entitlement included. This is what made me realise all of this, and prompted me to raise my question here. I'd assumed I wouldn't get bank holiday entitlement, since I didn't work on Mondays and my annual leave entitlement was already higher than statutory requirements.

I can either ask if they will make up the shortfall, or say nothing and just be grateful that I now have a bit more holiday than I thought I was entitled to and that I had in previous years. What would you do?

pinkshoes

There are so many companies that are rubbish at calculating pro rata holiday.

I once got offered a senior mechanical engineering job. The contract stated 3/5ths of the 20 days holiday (so 12 days) and any bank holidays that fell on my working days.

6 of the 8 bank holidays fell on either Monday or Friday so I would only get 2 BH days.

This meant I got 14 days holiday and not the 16.8 minimum.

I queried this politely then got a response saying the job was no longer available.

It was fate saying don't work for a company who cannot do basic maths...