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UK Working Weeks

Mountain365 · 2019-10-02 09:14:56

My wife is going through some contractual issues at her current workplace. Whilst looking through her current contract I see two things which are causing me some confusion and I just wonder if anyone could possibly shed some light on why the contract may be written this way: 1. She gets paid for 50.6 weeks in the year.…

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theoretica Posts: 12,691 Forumite

2 October 2019 at 8:06PM

Some of the confusion may be due to the habitual statement there are 52 weeks a year 52 x 7 = 364 so the extra day and leap years do bring it up to 52.2 weeks.

The mix of paid and unpaid holiday rather than longer paid holidays and a lower hourly rate would matter if they have any employees on these terms near minimum wage.

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