Holiday Entitlement

[crisper]

Hi all... was just wondering, does anyone know what holiday partime workers are entitled to?...3 of us at work..work between 13.5...and 30 hours per week! Ive looked at the official Gov site..cant make head nor tail of that..lol...Its me I think ...not the site!! lol.... Its a private buisness... hairdressing.. were all stylists... but don't want to make waves... good pun ehh!! lol.. so I was allocated to ask in the AB! Ta everso..Mrs Crisper xx

[factor-fiction]

The mimimum your employer must give is the statutory entitlement. For a typical full time employee working 5 days a week the entitlement is 28 days (including bank holidays).
The figures are pro rated for part time employees based on the number of hours work.
Let's start with you- how many days and hours do you work?

[vodkancoke]

I have a business and all my employees are part-time. I have to give them 5.6 weeks holiday inclusive of bank and public holidays.

[factor-fiction]

This extract should help

If you are a part-time worker, you are still entitled to 5.6 weeks' holiday – 5.6 of your normal working week. For example, if you work two days a week you would be entitled to 11.2 days' annual leave a year:

2 days x 5.6 weeks = 11.2 days


You should be treated no less favourably if you are a part-time worker than an equivalent full-timer. This means that if your employer gives extra days off to full-timers they may have to give extra time off to part-time workers as well.

[vodkancoke]

Sorry should have added, I have a member of staff who works 10 hours over 2 days and I have to give her 11.2 days holiday over the year.

[vodkancoke]

Whoops, sorry factor30! :)

[Buenchico]

If the employees work a fixed number of days per week (of equal length), holiday entitlement should be calculated in days, rather than hours. For example, if the '13.5 hour' employee is working 3 days (of 4½ hours each) every week, then her holiday entitlement is 5.6 x 3 days = 16.8 days (including all 'enforced holidays', when the business is closed, such as public holidays).

The 'multiply by 5.6' rule holds true whenever employees work to a regular pattern (as illustrated above), except when someone works for more than 5 days per week. Under those circumstances, it has to be remembered that the statutory holiday entitlement is capped at 28 days.

For employees with an irregular work pattern, the calculation should be made on the basis of 12.07% of the hours worked). So someone working 30 hours will accrue 0.1207 x 30 hours of holiday entitlement ( = 3.621 hours).

If you need a calculator, see here:
http://www.businessli....l2=1073858926&r.s=tl

Chris

[crisper]

Fantasic!. Thanks for your answers... Thats what I thought... I can pass it on to ''the girls'' now Mrs Crisper x

[crisper]

Factor 30..I work 5 days... 24.5 hours... and get 4 weeks holiday plus bank hols... seems fair to me! xx

[factor-fiction]

That's right crisper- you get the statutory minimum days a week and get 28 days a year in total. The fact that you work 4.9 hours a day is taken into account that when you take a day's holiday you are taking 4.9 hours off.

The calculation of entitlements for empoyees working part time hours is only part of the confusion- queries also arise over how to treat bank holidays depending on whether they fall or don't fall on one of your normal working days.