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Holiday pay
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How do you work out the formula for holiday pay. We offer 20 days plus 8 days bank holidays so pretty standard.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Could you explain a bit more. Where I work is salaried so we don't really need to calculate it. If you need to calculate a daily rate trhere are different ways to do that with different results. You would also have to use the daily rate for other things such as sick pay so your company should have a consistent method.
There's a good calulator here:
http://www.nwpayroll....ools/payratecalc.html
There's a good calulator here:
http://www.nwpayroll....ools/payratecalc.html
For employees who work the same number of hours/days each week, the formula is simple: An employee must receive a minimum amount of paid holiday which is equivalent of 5.6 weeks of work.
So an employee who works 5 days per week must have 28 (5.6 x 5) days paid holiday, including all 'enforced' holidays (when the business is closed, such as Christmas Day). Similarly, an employee who works only 2 days per week is entitled to 11.2 (5.6 x 2) days paid holiday. The only exception is that the legal entitlement can't exceed 28 days. (So someone who works 6 days per week is not entitled to any more holiday than a colleague who works 5 days per week).
Where the pattern of work is irregular, holiday entitlement has to be allocated 'pro rata'. A full-time employee, working 5 days per week for 52 weeks of the year, will actually work on 232 (52x5 - 28) days, with 28 days holiday. That means that each day (or hour) of work gains 0.1207 of a day (or hour) of holiday.
So, if an employee works irregularly, the employee must keep track of the total number of hours worked, and then multiply that by 0.1207 to calculate the amount of holiday owing.
http://www.direct.gov...dholidays/DG_10034642
Chris
So an employee who works 5 days per week must have 28 (5.6 x 5) days paid holiday, including all 'enforced' holidays (when the business is closed, such as Christmas Day). Similarly, an employee who works only 2 days per week is entitled to 11.2 (5.6 x 2) days paid holiday. The only exception is that the legal entitlement can't exceed 28 days. (So someone who works 6 days per week is not entitled to any more holiday than a colleague who works 5 days per week).
Where the pattern of work is irregular, holiday entitlement has to be allocated 'pro rata'. A full-time employee, working 5 days per week for 52 weeks of the year, will actually work on 232 (52x5 - 28) days, with 28 days holiday. That means that each day (or hour) of work gains 0.1207 of a day (or hour) of holiday.
So, if an employee works irregularly, the employee must keep track of the total number of hours worked, and then multiply that by 0.1207 to calculate the amount of holiday owing.
http://www.direct.gov...dholidays/DG_10034642
Chris