Annual leave!

london_1984

Hi all, 
Need some advice re annual leave.  

Entitlement is 25 days for full time employees and I work 22.5 hours per week split over 4 days. Bank holidays are not included in leave. 

I have been told I have 15 days leave. Does this sound right?

Martin_the_Unjust

Doesn’t seem far away to me.

Have a look here https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement

billy2shots

london_1984 said:

Hi all, 
Need some advice re annual leave.  

Entitlement is 25 days for full time employees and I work 22.5 hours per week split over 4 days. Bank holidays are not included in leave. 

I have been told I have 15 days leave. Does this sound right?

You work 22.5 hours a week. Your entitlement is 5.6 of YOUR working week. 

5.6x22.5= 126 hours of paid leave. 

warby68

Assuming a 37.5h working week you work 60% of that

15 days compared to 25 is also 60% so looks correct.

The 15 days will however be based on full days, say 7.5hrs, so you should only need to use 3 days to get a full week off. It is common to state leave in hours when you work part time and/or an irregular pattern.

At 3 days for a week off that gives you 5 weeks off which is exactly what the full time allowance equates to.

General_Grant

warby68 said:

Assuming a 37.5h working week you work 60% of that

15 days compared to 25 is also 60% so looks correct.

The 15 days will however be based on full days, say 7.5hrs, so you should only need to use 3 days to get a full week off. It is common to state leave in hours when you work part time and/or an irregular pattern.

At 3 days for a week off that gives you 5 weeks off which is exactly what the full time allowance equates to.

To get a week off, the OP needs to take 4 days leave because that is their week.

The 25 days for a full-time person (assuming working 5 or more days a week) is not their full holiday entitlement (as it would not be the statutory entitlement).  They must get at least another 3 days.  One could guess that they actually get all 8 bank holidays.

If the full-time people do get all BHs, the OP's entitlement would be 4/5 of a full-time entitlement (25 + 8).
So 33 x 4/5 = 26.4 days (which can't be rounded down but can be rounded up).
Any BHs which fall when the OP would normally work would get deducted from the 26.4 days and this number will vary because of the days that Christmas and New Year fall.

Thrugelmir

General_Grant said:

warby68 said:

Assuming a 37.5h working week you work 60% of that

15 days compared to 25 is also 60% so looks correct.

The 15 days will however be based on full days, say 7.5hrs, so you should only need to use 3 days to get a full week off. It is common to state leave in hours when you work part time and/or an irregular pattern.

At 3 days for a week off that gives you 5 weeks off which is exactly what the full time allowance equates to.

If the full-time people do get all BHs, the OP's entitlement would be 4/5 of a full-time entitlement (25 + 8).
So 33 x 4/5 = 26.4 days (which can't be rounded down but can be rounded up).
Any BHs which fall when the OP would normally work would get deducted from the 26.4 days and this number will vary because of the days that Christmas and New Year fall.

Also whether the OP works on Mondays. As 4 of the 8 days fall on Mondays by default as a minimum. 

General_Grant

Thrugelmir said:

General_Grant said:

warby68 said:

Assuming a 37.5h working week you work 60% of that

15 days compared to 25 is also 60% so looks correct.

The 15 days will however be based on full days, say 7.5hrs, so you should only need to use 3 days to get a full week off. It is common to state leave in hours when you work part time and/or an irregular pattern.

At 3 days for a week off that gives you 5 weeks off which is exactly what the full time allowance equates to.

If the full-time people do get all BHs, the OP's entitlement would be 4/5 of a full-time entitlement (25 + 8).
So 33 x 4/5 = 26.4 days (which can't be rounded down but can be rounded up).
Any BHs which fall when the OP would normally work would get deducted from the 26.4 days and this number will vary because of the days that Christmas and New Year fall.

Also whether the OP works on Mondays. As 4 of the 8 days fall on Mondays by default as a minimum. 

Well, yes, as the corollary of "Any BHs which fall when the OP would normally work would get deducted" it follows that if the Monday BHs are not "when the OP would normally work" they wouldn't be deducted from the total of 26.4 days.

jobbingmusician

Is this an easier way to look at it?

Full timers get 5 weeks of holiday, so you should too.  So 20 of your days, the shorter ones.
Full timers get 8 bank holidays, and you get 4/5 of this (so 6.4 fays). 
This totals 26.4 days.

Any bank holidays when you can't work because the firm is closed get used up in this allowance.  Any bank holidays when you wouldn't be working don't affect the amount of holiday that (theoretically) you can choose when to take.  In fact the employer can dictate when you take ALL of your holiday, although most don't.

thebrexitunicorn

london_1984 said:

Hi all, 
Need some advice re annual leave.  

Entitlement is 25 days for full time employees and I work 22.5 hours per week split over 4 days. Bank holidays are not included in leave. 

I have been told I have 15 days leave. Does this sound right?

The easiest way to calculate your entitlement is in hours.  If full time staff work 5 days a week they have 5 weeks of holidays.  You’re pro rata entitlement would be 5x 22.5 = 112.5 hrs.  Your public holiday entitlement would also be calculated as a proportion of full time entitlement.
My leave plus public holidays is calculated in hours and added together.  Whenever I take leave, or have a public holiday, the precise number of hours is taken off the total.  I work different hours over 4 days and this is by far the easiest way to organise and keep track of my
leave.