Holiday pay.

katiem188

Hi everyone, is anyone able to help me calculate holiday pay on behalf of my partner. 🙏🏼

He has recently left his job and started new employment and is owed holiday pay which he hasn’t yet received, he got paid on a weekly basis, he left the job 3 weeks ago and apparently they are paying it to him next week. I’m just wanting to check it’s correct. 

he worked 40 hours per week, 5 days a week at a wage of £8.91 per hour. he worked for the company for 5 years, he is entitled to 28 days holiday but left this job on 10.10.21, since the start of this year he’s taken in total about 9 days holiday. Would anyone be able to work out how many days holiday he should be owed? I’m not very good with this type of stuff as I’ve never had to deal with holiday pay etc. Thank you. 

katiem188

I say the start of the year, I’m referring to the current tax year, he didn’t take any holidays between January - April. 

74jax

Does his holiday year run January to December, April to March or something else? 

katiem188

74jax said:

Does his holiday year run January to December, April to March or something else? 

It runs April to March. 😊 

comeandgo

I would be looking at a weeks wages as holiday.  He may have to pay tax on the lot as he has started another job so that employment may be using his normal tax code allowances.

General_Grant

comeandgo said:

I would be looking at a weeks wages as holiday.  He may have to pay tax on the lot as he has started another job so that employment may be using his normal tax code allowances.

How have you calculated that it should be a week's pay?

The former employer should be using the tax code they have been notified - unless they have already issued a P45.

74jax

katiem188 said:

74jax said:

Does his holiday year run January to December, April to March or something else? 

It runs April to March. 😊 

An easy base way to work it out is 28 days / 12 months is 2.33 days a month. He has worked 6 months so 6 x 2.33 = 13.98 days. He's taken 9 days so has approx 5 days remaining. 

You say he didn't take any January to March, is he rolling any days over? Did he work the bank Holiday? Or did he use all his years entitlement between April and December? 

comeandgo

General_Grant said:

comeandgo said:

I would be looking at a weeks wages as holiday.  He may have to pay tax on the lot as he has started another job so that employment may be using his normal tax code allowances.

How have you calculated that it should be a week's pay?

The former employer should be using the tax code they have been notified - unless they have already issued a P45.

Same way as 74jax did, in my head.  OP is already in new employment and due to receive pay so I assume p45 done.

General_Grant

1 April till 10 October is a couple of days over 27 weeks.

Entitlement could be calulated as 28 days divided by 52 (weeks of year) multiplied by 27.
So that equals 14.6 days (rounded up to 1 dp).

You need to establish exactly how many days he has taken as holiday - include bank holidays.  If they do total 9 then

14.6 less 9 = 5.6 days accrued but not taken

40 hours over 5 days is an 8-hour day
If he gets paid for 8 hours (rather than those including an unpaid lunch break)
then 
£8.91 x 8 x 5.6 = £399.17

When calculating the entitlement, they could round up to whole days (so to 15 days) but can't round down to 14.

katiem188

General_Grant said:

1 April till 10 October is a couple of days over 27 weeks.

Entitlement could be calulated as 28 days divided by 52 (weeks of year) multiplied by 27.
So that equals 14.6 days (rounded up to 1 dp).

You need to establish exactly how many days he has taken as holiday - include bank holidays.  If they do total 9 then

14.6 less 9 = 5.6 days accrued but not taken

40 hours over 5 days is an 8-hour day
If he gets paid for 8 hours (rather than those including an unpaid lunch break)
then 
£8.91 x 8 x 5.6 = £399.17

When calculating the entitlement, they could round up to whole days (so to 15 days) but can't round down to 14.

Very helpful breakdown grant, thank you. 👍🏻