Help calculating holiday entitlement

Savvy_Sue

Sorry, I cross posted with you, took me a long time to work all that lot out.

Is that £300 about 1/10 of your normal salary? I'd check that too ...

gillian2001uk

i will check out what you are saying tomorrow and come back to you if thats okay?

gillian2001uk

April – paid for 24.60 hrs per week @ £8.70 per hr – worked 33.75 hrs per week
May – paid for 24.60 hrs per week @ 8.70 per hr – worked 33.75 hrs per week
June – paid for 24.60 hrs per week @ 8.70 per hr – worked 33.75 hrs per week
July – paid for 24.60 hrs per week @ 8.92 per hr – worked 33.75 hrs per week
August – paid for 24.60 hrs per week @ 8.92 per hr – worked 33.75 hrs per week
Sept – paid for 24.60 hrs per week @ 8.92 per hr – worked 33.75 hrs per week

Oct – paid 37.5 hrs per week – worked 37.5 hrs per week
Nov – paid 37.5 hrs per week – worked 37.5 hrs per week
Dec – paid 37.5 hrs per week – worked 37.5 hrs per week
Jan - paid 37.5 hrs per week – worked 37.5 hrs per week
Feb - paid 37.5 hrs per week – worked 37.5 hrs per week


Time off taken on term time calendar:-

10 days in April
3 days in May
23 days in July
10 days in August
2 days in September


Annual Leave entitled while full time – 29 days annual leave, 8 public holidays.

I hope this helps you work something out for me.

Savvy_Sue

Well, it looks to me as if they underpaid you for the time you reduced your hours, and they seem to be admitting this.

So, without checking their figures, either they owe you 39.5 hours leave, or a massive amount of back pay! Which would you rather have? You could work out how much the back pay is by multiplying the difference between 33.75 and 24.60 by your two different rates of pay, then multiplying each of those by 13.

So that's 9.15 hours x £8.70 x 13 = £1034.87

And 9.15 hours x £8.92 x 13 = £1061.03

Gross, of course, so there's a wallop of tax and NI on those.

gillian2001uk

Is that right? So as it stands, I have been underpaid...... how could that be? So really the hours they are saying I worked, and wasn't paid is in my favour, rather than against me?

I think I really need to make a point of seeing someone from HR, what do you think?

I would rather have the back pay and no leave, honestly!!! why wouldn't I?

What do you advise now....

I really appreciate your help on this?

Savvy_Sue

Yes, I think you should be making an appointment. If you know what hours you worked, and they are saying they paid you for fewer hours than that, then you are entitled to have that sorted out, and TBH giving you the back pay would probably be their preferred option. If you can afford to take as much time off as that, someone might start asking whether there's a job there that needs doing ... and you don't want that!

The only query would be whether there was some misunderstanding and you worked more hours than they intended. So if you have anything in writing saying what was agreed, take that with you. But to me, if they are saying 'Excess hours worked but not paid' that looks like an admission to me that they have realised you were underpaid.

Which is what I suspected from you saying that you lost £300 a month during that time: you only reduced your hours by 1/10, so that would have meant you were earning £3000 a month initially, which is quite a bit more than I get! :rotfl:

And you can at the same time ask what this 9.5 hours you owe them is. It could be from their mistaken bank holiday calculations, but it doesn't quite add up.

robnye

clear as mud to me.... i think...... :rotfl:

gillian2001uk

Managed to get sorted........ eventually..... as it turns out, they had the 30 hrs wrong - I actually worked 33.75 hrs per week for this time... and my holiday entitled ended up actually 20 days - but i was left with 6 weeks to take them all.... so guess who isn't working just now!!!!

Thank you so much for all your help.

stevey2005

I'm currently on a casual contract with a local supermarket due to myself being a student. I've been working for this company on a casual basis for nearly 7 years every weekend.

I need some advice on the holiday pay entitlement in Northern Ireland. I have only received holiday pay since last April (2007) and is based on a pro-rata basis.

Am I entitled to go back and claim for the holiday pay for six years I did not receive?

Savvy_Sue

Probably not: it's rare to be able to do this. However I don't know whether different regs apply to NI, or whether different regs would apply if the company had not offered the legal minimum of paid leave. But I suspect it would have been up to you to claim your entitlement, even if they weren't exactly offering it, IYSWIM.