Holiday Entitlement - Full time v Part time.

[Noblebenn]

Following on from a discussion in the office today hopefully someone has a simple answer....

There are full time workers, 40 hours per week, part time on 28 hours and part time doing 24 hours per week.

40 hours - 28 days entitlement including bank holidays - straight forward.

Using the HMRC calculator it seems to throw up different results for part time.

28 hours a week spread over 5 days seems to equal 28 days entitlement also which the full time workers seem to think can't be correct. If their entitlement is calculated in hours it equals 21, 8 hours days but the part time worker thinks it 28 days as they take less hours off when they have a day off.

Pretty much the same as above for the part time worker in 24 hours. When their child is on holiday they work 3 x 8 hour days and when at school spread the hours over 5 days.

Part time workers are on an hourly rate but this turned in to an annual salary to keep payments simple.

What is the actual answer to this?

Thanks

[Jockman]

Noblebenn said:

Following on from a discussion in the office today hopefully someone has a simple answer....

There are full time workers, 40 hours per week, part time on 28 hours and part time doing 24 hours per week.

40 hours - 28 days entitlement including bank holidays - straight forward.

Using the HMRC calculator it seems to throw up different results for part time.

28 hours a week spread over 5 days seems to equal 28 days entitlement also which the full time workers seem to think can't be correct. If their entitlement is calculated in hours it equals 21, 8 hours days but the part time worker thinks it 28 days as they take less hours off when they have a day off.

Pretty much the same as above for the part time worker in 24 hours. When their child is on holiday they work 3 x 8 hour days and when at school spread the hours over 5 days.

Part time workers are on an hourly rate but this turned in to an annual salary to keep payments simple.

What is the actual answer to this?

Thanks

The Calculator is correct.

If both types work five days per week then they are entitled to 28 days each, regardless of the hours.

The difference is reflected in the duration of the holiday day.

The Full Timers will be entitled to and paid for 28 x 8 hour days.

The Part Timers will be entitled to and paid for 28 x 5 hour days (for example).

Edit - pretty much what Dave said !!!

[Noblebenn]

Great clears that up thanks.

Would people have a preference from a company efficiency point of view, whether they would rather have part time staff on 24 hours spread over 5 days or 3 full 8 hours days?

I know it all depends on what the business does, who the employee is etc etc but just in general, any thoughts?

[Countdown]

Noblebenn said:

Great clears that up thanks.

Would people have a preference from a company efficiency point of view, whether they would rather have part time staff on 24 hours spread over 5 days or 3 full 8 hours days?

I know it all depends on what the business does, who the employee is etc etc but just in general, any thoughts?

As you point out it's based on business needs (and even within the business different teams have different needs).

For example our Customer Services team need to provide cover between 8 and 6, our Finance and HR team need to provide cover between 9-5, and our IT team need to have somebody on the helpdesk between 8-6 and somebody oncall from 7am - 10pm. Each Dept Manager needs to have a rota in place to ensure they have staff cover. Then combine with the fact that some people prefer working ccompressed hours, so people work part time so they can pick their kids up and drop them off, and a million other variations.