Question about holiday entitlement
Question about holiday entitlement
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chainy

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35 posts

177 months

Wednesday 8th January 2014
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Hi guys my first post on pistonheads so feel free to rip the piss out of me smile Does this sound right to you, I wont go into all the details unless it helps..
I get my holiday entitlement in hours and what my employer has done is take my weekly contracted hours of 41.5 and divided it by 5 (as in 5 working days in a week)to give me 1 days holiday entitlement of 8.3 hours..

This is what is bugging me because I don't work 5 days a week I work 4 days same shift pattern every week, so in my eyes my employer should of taken my contracted weekly hours of 41.5 and divided it by 4 (my actual working days in a week) this would give me 1 days holiday entitlement of 10.4 hours..

I am the only employee at the company working 4 days a week and so no one else is affected or bothered. I also work 12 hour shifts for 3 of those days so the more hours I can get the better for me. What do you think guys have I got a point or should I just shut up and get on with the job...

Total holiday hours for the year.
33 (total days in holidays a year)
33*8.3= 274 (my current yearly entitlement in hours that my employer has worked out)


What I think it should be.
33 (total days in holidays a year)
33*10.4= 343 (What I think my yearly total should be taking the 4 day a week I work into account)


Siscar

6,315 posts

158 months

Wednesday 8th January 2014
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No, their interpretation is correct otherwise you working less days that are longer gives you,longer holidays.

Chipchap

2,639 posts

226 months

Thursday 9th January 2014
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Surely the employment law legislation overrules any of this. Whatever the statutory minimum is [c25 days] is the holiday entitlement that must be given. Then Bank/Public Holidays are either included or excluded from this number.


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Cyberprog

2,324 posts

212 months

Friday 10th January 2014
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https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlem...

The statutory entitlement is 232 hours and 24 minutes holiday.

mph1977

12,467 posts

197 months

Monday 13th January 2014
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at least they work it out in hours

the number of hours you take is the number of hours deducted from your 'balance' ...

'days' holiday is a bit of misnomer and it's a pain to try and get some people to understand that it;s all worked in hours especially where there are multiple shift patterns in an organisation