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If you hve had 3 days extra holiday which you need to pay back and they have taken 3 x 8 hours instead of 3 x 6.5 hours then you are 4.5 hours pay short not 24 hours.0
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Not quite as simple as that.swingaloo2 said:If you hve had 3 days extra holiday which you need to pay back and they have taken 3 x 8 hours instead of 3 x 6.5 hours then you are 4.5 hours pay short not 24 hours.
The OP needs to apportion holiday entitlement according to the length of time they were on the two different contractual hour weeks. This needs to be in hours, not days.
Then deduct the amount of time the holidays actually used up (depends when they were taken, in which contractual hours period).
If then, there is holiday time due to be paid by the employee or employer, the monetary value of those hours needs to be recovered from the employee or paid by the employer.1 -
I think the simplest calculation might be the total number of hours you worked for them + the total hours holiday you were entitled to - multiply that by the minimum wage. Is this less than the total they paid you?
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Possibly the simplest way would be for you to post how you worked it out on here - try explaining it to us and we will pick it apart for you, so that the final sum you take to your HR department (and further, if necessary!) will be transparent, easy to understand and accurate

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