part time holidays

[DEVILOXO]

appreciate if anyone could shed light on part time holiday entitlements. i work 12 hours per week over 3 days. my contract says i am entitled to 8.5 days holiday equivalent of 3 weeks and half a day!!! i inputted my details on business link website and it calculated i should be entitled to 12 days (4 weeks) or equivalent 58 hours. our year runs from january to december. also is no more holiday pay accrued when doing overtime? really appreciate any help.
regards

[kautostar]

I work full time 37 hours a week and get 26 days holiday entitlement.
And this after 28 years service. So as you work about a third of what I work I'd be surprised if you were entitled to more than a third of my holidays i.e 8 and a bit...

[CheekyChops]

You are entitled to 4 week holiday by law, so in your case that would be 48 hours (4 x 12hrs per week). However this can include bank holidays.

[thugulike]

You need to know what the full time holiday allowance is and then you can work it out. It should be like this.
part time annual hours over full time weekly hours x full time annual hours. This gives you then number of hours leave per annum which is the correct way to show part-time leave. I can't work your leave out as I don't know what your full time equivalent is.

[buildersmate]

If you reply telling us how many hours per week a full-timer works and how many days holiday a full-timer gets, one of us will work it out for you. Also tell us whether full-timers get 8 public holidays per year, and which days of the week your work (if fixed). Yes this has an impact, because you cannot automatically assume you can expect all the Monday bank holidays, if you normally work a Monday.
Employers have an amazing ability to get this calculation wrong in situations where a part-timer works different days in a week.
The only way we will be able to work this out is in holiday hours per year, and each shift you take as holiday will deduct 4 hours of holiday.

[helpmetoo]

what do you want holidays for, you hardly work anyway!

[DEVILOXO]

Thanks for quick replies. if you would not mind working it out for me. I work Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (10pm to 2am) This is fixed. A full time worker does 35 hours (over 5 days) and they get 22 days per annum. When i work a Bank holiday monday I have the option of double pay or a day in lieu.Can i also add another work collegue does 17.5 hours per week but this is over a 5 day period and they also get 22 days paid holiday. Really grateful for your help. HELPMETOO..I HAVE TO ADMIT I DID LAUGH AT YOUR COMMENT. I DO GET 4 DAYS OFF, BUT JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I AM GETTING WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY MINE AS I WORK FOR A FIRM WHO WOULD GLADLY RIP YOU OFF..LOL

[buildersmate]

As you work 12/35ths of a FT person, you should expect the same proportion in holidays. So this is 12*22/35 = 7.54 days (or shifts).
In addition, as you work this proportion of the whole year, you can't expect necessarily to be paid for all the public holidays - especially since lots of them fall on a Monday which is a normal working day for you. You should expect 12*8/35 = 2.74 'days' of the 8 public holidays to be given to you.
A reasonable employer would probably call this 7.5 days of holiday plus 3 days of public holidays.

Therefore to my way of thinking you are getting a good deal - because you say you get 8.5 days (shifts) of normal holiday.

Its especially beneficial for you if your employer is doing nothing about the BH situation and you are in fact gaining from this - if your employer is merely saying you get the shift off on a day when its normally a working day for you (or the alternative of another day off). At least 4 of the 8 public holidays each year always fall on a Monday - Easter Monday, 2 spring holidays and August. By the above logic, because you do only about one third of a normal working week you should not be entitled to all of these.

I reckon you should say nothing.

[DEVILOXO]

Thanks very much for your help. I would not have questoned my holidays had i not gone routing around internet and finding the site where it calculated your entitlements. The WWW can be a pain as much as a blessing.lol. Anyway thanks very much for taking the time to calculate it for me.