Holiday Entitlement

[Pied Piper]

Help.

I'm sure this is wrong, I work for a brewer running a pub/restaurant.

I am entitled to 28 days (including bank holidays) leave a year, this is based on a 7 day a week contract for the holiday period. Therefore giving me 4 weeks a year.

The normal contract is 6 days a week unless you're on leave then as above is 7 days.

My assistant works on a 6 day contract and his holiday is based on this is 4 weeks and 4 days.

Is this correct?

[M400 NBL]

Give or take.

28/6 = 4.66 days
So 4 days + the remaining

0.66 x 6 = 3.96 (almost 4)

=4 weeks 4 days, near as damn it.

[Pied Piper]

M400 NBL said:

Give or take.

28/6 = 4.66 days
So 4 days + the remaining

0.66 x 6 = 3.96 (almost 4)

=4 weeks 4 days, near as damn it.

I was trying to find out if they can change your contract from a 6 day week to a 7 day week just for when your on holiday, it seems a bit stange.

[deckster]

Pied Piper said:

I was trying to find out if they can change your contract from a 6 day week to a 7 day week just for when your on holiday, it seems a bit stange.

So, if I understand you correctly, you normally work 6 days a week. If you want to take a week off, you are obliged to use 7 days leave. Yes?

IANAL but on the face of it that doesn't sound at all right. What does your contract say?

[Pied Piper]

Contract is for a 6 day working week (with the additional caveat as the business dictates), where as holiday entitlement is based on a 7 day week.

[M400 NBL]

Sorry, I thought that you were just calculating your colleagues holiday entitlement.It seems odd to book a day off for a day that you are entitled to be off. It would depend on your terms of employment, but you could have a look at www.acas.org.uk to see if what they are doing is in line with employment law.

[Pied Piper]

M400 NBL said:

Sorry, I thought that you were just calculating your colleagues holiday entitlement.

It seems odd to book a day off for a day that you are entitled to be off. It would depend on your terms of employment, but you could have a look at www.acas.org.uk to see if what they are doing is in line with employment law.

Thanks had a look, yep it seems they can do that as minimum is 28 days leave per year.

[M400 NBL]

I'm using a ps3 to post so cannot copy and paste the link. But, according to acas, most employees are entitled to 4.8 weeks off, dependant on your working week. In other words 4.8 x 6 for you, which is nearer 29 days. The government plan to increase it to a minimum of 5.6 weeks from April 2009. In hope so, Acas info isn't actual employment law, but most human resources/personel depts use them as a guideline for staff handbooks or contracts. Have another look at the holiday section on the acas site. Hopefully they'll be more advice that doesn't rely on acas for info. Better still, they'll know about employment law for your industry.