holiday entitlement

[fruitsalad]

if someone works 23 and a half hours per week what holiday entilement would they be allowed if its pro rata?
TIA

[buildersmate]

More data required! - namely the number of hours a full-timer does per week, and the number of annual days leave given to a full-timer, excluding the 8 public holidays. Then we'll tell you.

[fruitsalad]

full-timers do a 40 hour week and get 25 days holiday,

[buildersmate]

Then you get 14.7 days of holiday plus 4.7 days of public holiday. This is calculated by (23.5 * 25 / 40) = 14.7.
A reasonable employer would round 14.7 to 15, and 4.7 to either 5 or 4.5.
You have a very peculiar number of hours/wk here. If you do NOT work the same number of hours per day, or there are some days of the week that you never work, the ONLY way your employer can calculate your holiday entitlement correctly is to do it in HOURS, not DAYS.
In which case you are entitled to 155 hours per year combined holiday + public holidays.

[fruitsalad]

thanks for your help buildersmate, i do a full day thursdays and fridays and then half day saturdays, in this particular job.

[Buenchico]

The statutory holiday entitlement of your full time colleagues (assuming that their 40 hours are spread over 5 days per week) is 24 days per year, including all dates upon which the company is closed for business (such as public holidays, if appropriate). This is calculated as 4.8 times the number of days they work each week.

Since every employee's contract with an employer is entirely separate to that of any other employee (unless there are agreements to the contrary), your employer is not obliged to work out your holidays pro rata to 25 days. You might only be entitled to the statutory minimum holiday which is 4.8 working weeks.

4.8 x 23.5 hours gives you a statutory holiday entitlement of 112.8 hours.

Scaling it up in the same way that your full time colleagues have had their statutory entitlement increased gives you 117.5 hours (if they get 25 days including public holidays) or 155.1 hours (if they get a total of 33 days holiday, including public holidays).

This link confirms your statutory holiday entitlement. Anything else is determined by your contract:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employe es/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10034642

Chris

[buildersmate]

Maybe, Chris, but every employer I've come across will pro-rota holidays for part-time staff.

[Lyndyloo]

Depends on how many days holiday per year are given to full time employees and how many hours is full time.

[BlueScorpion]

Every payroll department I've ever worked in has calculated holidays for a part timer based on the number of days worked rather than the number of hours. Thus if you worked 5 days a week you would still be entitled to same number of holidays as a full timer, but if you only worked 3 out of 5 days your entitlement would be 3/5 of theirs.

[factor-fiction]

yes bluescorpion, that's the simplest way if the paart time employees work same length day as a full time employee. The hours approach is needed though when people work different number of hours on different days- eg someone may work 2 7 hour days and one five hour day each week