Holiday

[amazingtoxic]

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that my old work had paid me continued to pay me for a month and a half after leaving their emplyment. Well since then I have been requested to pay back three totally different amount and had two different quotes for how much they still owe me for the holiday I did not take. I have an email sent by the lady at work stating that they owe me 13.5 days holiday pay, as I was part-time do I work it out as 13.5 x 4hour shift or 13.5 x 8h shifts? I worked a mix of four and eight hour shifts, so was wondering if they worked it out as an ordinary eight hour working day.

If anyone knows, you will be helping me greatly, as I believe the reason they are quoting me two different amount is because they are getting me confused with somone else. A least I have it in writing though

Thanks

[buildersmate]

If you work a series of variable shift lengths, the only way to work out one's holiday is in hours, not days (or even shifts).
So if you are entitled to 25 days holiday per year as a full-timer working a 39 hour week, you accrue 25*39/5 hours holiday per year. And then a part-timer doing 20 hours is entitled to (25*39/5) * 20/39 hours holiday per year.
Then working things out is simple. Every time a part-timer takes a 7-hour shift off as holiday, they get docked 7 hours of holiday off the total. Etc.

[silverdaler]

You could always ring ACAS or CAB - they will tell you exactly what you are entitled to .

[amazingtoxic]

Hi buildersmate, thanks for your reply, it did confuse me a bit, I am entitled to 4 weeks holiday pay and I did 20 hours a week but the actual shifts wud vary in length, so i would do 2 8 hour shifts and one four hour.

So how do I work that out.

H

[buildersmate]

To keep it easy, let's assume a full-timer works at 40 hour week. You will have to adjust if the figure is different.

In a whole year, you are entitled to the same proportionate holiday as a full-timer. If you worked the same number of hours per day, it would be easy because you would just have 20 'days' holiday of your shorter working day. The problem arises when a part-timer works different days in a week or different shift lengths - that's when the calculation must be done in hours.

At the point you leave, you work out how much entitlement to holiday you are due. If the holiday year starts in September and a Full-timer leaves at the end of February, that's 5 months, so his holiday entitlement in that period is 20 days times 5/12. This is 8.33 days. 8.33 days is 66.64 hours holiday. But your working week is only 50% of a full-timer (20/40) so you get 66.64/2 hours. This is 33.32 hours holiday entitlement between Sept and February.

Then, every time you have had a shift in holiday, you deduct the length of that shift in hours from your entitlement - 33.3 hours. If you had a Monday off and that was an 8hr shift, 8 comes off the entitlement, if you had two Fridays off and they are normally 5 hr shifts each, that another 10 hours off the total.

[THECORBYLOON]

If you are entitled to four weeks' leave each year and you work only three days each week that works out as 12 days per year so have you not taken any leave for a year?