holiday entitlement

[silvester494]

Could someone please advise me..... My working week is tuesday - friday. Can somebody tell me, as I dont work monday's (and there are 3 banks holiday monday's), am I entitled to an extra day.??????

[CheekyChops]

The simple answer is no, you aren't.

[anniebird]

At my company most of the office workers are part time. We calculate the number of days holiday including Bank Holidays that a full time menber of staff is entitled to and then pro rata that to the number of days the employee actually works. For instance 20 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays is 28 days in the year for full time employees, 22.4 for 4 day week and 16.8 for a 3 day week. Then the employee takes of that number of days in the year including Bank Holidays if they fall on a normal working day. This works well and is understood by all members of staff.

[buildersmate]

Yes, Annie's answer is the only way to do it - but it is often hard for employees and even employers to understand how to apply it.
Another way of thinking about it (it reaches the same answer as Annie) is to work out the holiday and BH entitlement in HOURS per year, for those employees who work different length shifts on different days of the week.
The hours of holiday and BH you get are pro-rata to the weekly hours done by a FT employee.

[kempie]

In employment law the statutory minimum holiday entitlement is currently 4.8 weeks (i.e. 24 days if you work a 5-day week, 19.2 (!!!) days for a 4-day week, etc.).

Bank Holidays are not treated as special in law, so may form part of your entitlement. A more benevolent employer could give them as extras but this is not a requirement.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employe es/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029788

[ladyalex]

If your employer requires that you do not work on Mondays, then i would think that you have a good case for asking for time off in lieu of the holidays you have missed, calculated pro-rata as described by anniebird above.
if you choose not to work on Mondays, your case is less strong.
When I worked part time, if I had a choice, I worked Mondays, but didn't work Tuesdays, so I could have a really long weekend when there was a bank holiday.

[kempie]

...that all depends on whether or not silvester494's full-time colleagues receive the time off for Bank Holidays in addition to their "normal" holidays.

This should be codified in a contract of employment.