Holiday entitlement

lucymaixo

I have been at my place of work for about 2 and a half years and in my first couple years I was working full time hours and working 5 days a week (36.5 hours) and was given 28 days paid annual leave. Recently this year my hours have gone down to 30 hours but still working 5 days a week and so my days holiday has been changed to 21 days. This didn’t seem right so I went on the government website and it seems as though I should still be getting 28 days as I’m still doing the same amount of days? 

steampowered

Yes, you should still be getting 28 days leave. In fact this is the legal minimum (if that 28 days includes bank holidays).

You would only expect to be getting paid while you are on leave for your new working hours, not your old ones.

Brie

I'm afraid the previous poster is slightly wrong.

Your holidays will reduce in the same way as the hours you work.  But I don't think it should be 21 days.

Where I work (big company) the holidays would be changed into hours unless you exactly the same length of day for all 5 days.  You haven't said if this is the case.

The calc would be 28 x 30/36.5 which equals  a full time equivalent of 23 days.   

If you are working different length days = say 7 hours on 3 days and 4.5 on the other two - then holiday entitlement would be translated into hours and you would have 7 hours off on some days and 4.5 hours on the others.

If however you are working 5 days equally of 6 hours each then you should continue to have this calc in days and would maintain the 28 days entitlement as taking any given day would always be a 6 hour day holiday.  

I expect that whomever told you only had 21 miscalculated or has otherwise misunderstood what your new work pattern is.  Ask them to have another look at it and explain how they got to 21.

getmore4less

The starting point for holidays is 5.6 weeks
Or the full time equivalent if more.

A weeks holiday pay is the average of the previous 52 weeks

The translation to days and hours does not always map since that change April 2020.

General_Grant

getmore4less said:

The starting point for holidays is 5.6 weeks
Or the full time equivalent if more.

A weeks holiday pay is the average of the previous 52 weeks

The translation to days and hours does not always map since that change April 2020.

The entitlement is to paid holiday.  It is a matter of time which is available.  I believe the calculation of what that amounts to in money is separate.

General_Grant

Brie said:

I'm afraid the previous poster is slightly wrong.

(A)  Your holidays will reduce in the same way as the hours you work.  But I don't think it should be 21 days.

Where I work (big company) the holidays would be changed into hours unless you exactly the same length of day for all 5 days.  You haven't said if this is the case.

(B)  The calc would be 28 x 30/36.5 which equals  a full time equivalent of 23 days.   

If you are working different length days = say 7 hours on 3 days and 4.5 on the other two - then holiday entitlement would be translated into hours and you would have 7 hours off on some days and 4.5 hours on the others.

If however you are working 5 days equally of 6 hours each then you should continue to have this calc in days and would maintain the 28 days entitlement as taking any given day would always be a 6 hour day holiday.  

I expect that whomever told you only had 21 miscalculated or has otherwise misunderstood what your new work pattern is.  Ask them to have another look at it and explain how they got to 21.

(A)  Only insofar as a day will be shorter.

(B)  Your big company is not calculating correctly if it actually converts full-time to part-time holiday entitlement like that and says you would take 23 of your reduced hour days.  But I'm pretty sure they don't: they would just convert to hours in case of unequal working day lengths and deduct holiday hours according to the number of hours that would otherwise have been worked on the day taken as leave.  That is what you went on to explain.

Jaybee_16

If you're still working 5 days per week, your entitlement remains at 28 days, paid at your part-time daily rate. Would only change the entitlement to hours if you worked different hours each day.

jobbingmusician

....and you'd still be entitled to 28 days if you worked an hour a day.  It's just that the 28 days would each be only an hour long.  They are still holiday days when you don't have to go in to work but get paid your daily rate of one hour.

oh_really

From the information provided you are still entitled to 28 days, not sure why brie thinks otherwise.

Thrugelmir

oh_really said:

From the information provided you are still entitled to 28 days, not sure why brie thinks otherwise.

The unanswered question is whether the OP works 6 hours every day.