Working Out Holidays And Maternity Leave

[missesbell]

Can anyone give me an "easy" way to work out holiday entitlement for someone who came back to work from maternity leave (which started on 17th August )(having had their accrued holiday) on May 27th (28th actually cos of bank holiday) and they work 25 hours a week (50 hours a fortnight if it makes any difference).It would seem completely mind boggling.

[jd_1984]

Your HR Department??

[missesbell]

We are a tiny business (two full time and four part timers) so no HR dept!

[sunny-dave]

When does your holiday year start?

Is everyone agreed that 27th May is a new start for calculating holiday - with nothing carried forward from the period of Maternity Leave?

[missesbell]

Holiday year starts 1st Jan. She worked full time until maternity leave, came back on 27th May and now works 25 hours a week.

[sunny-dave]

Assumptions :

All accrued holiday was taken as part of maternity absence - so 27th May is effectively day zero for holiday calculations.

8 Bank Holidays in the Year

20 Days Holiday for a Full Time worker

25 hours is worked as 5 x 5 hour days


She will work for 31 weeks of the 52 this holiday year - thus she is entitled to (31/52) multiplied by (20+8) days holiday. Which is 16.7 days (of five hours per day).

She will need to use 4 of those for Bank Holidays (May 27th, Aug 26th, Christmas Day, Boxing Day). So she will have 12.7 days to take as other holiday - about two and a half weeks).


Dave

[THECORBYLOON]

There is not enough info as holidays accrue whilst on Maternity Leave so you need to say how long she received SMP.

[sunny-dave]

That's why I asked if that had already had been done & (in the absence of a specific answer) then assumed that it had been calculated and taken along with the maternity leave.

If not then there is another calculation to be done.

[THECORBYLOON]

We also need to know what the annual leave entitlement is since Bank holidays can be in addition to or included in the statutory entitlement.