Holiday Entitlement Help?

[Snookums]

Started a new job on the 31st May this year. Leave is from 1st January every year. SO am I right in saying I am entitled to 16.33 days leave? My employer includes bank holiday in the 28 days leave. So obviously thats 16.33 days - 3 days remaing bank holiday this year totalling 13.33 days. How does the 0.33 days work, does my employer have to round it to say a half day?

Also if the work place closes for a week over Christmas am I entitled to pay without taking holiday?

 

[d_brennen]

This is a question for your HR.

Normally you build up holiday entitlement as you suggest, but it varies. My last move of employer went really well for me, they weren't all that bothered and allowed me to take my entitlement before I'd "earned" it by a few days, mostly likely on the understanding that I'd need to pay it back if I quit/got dismissed, as laid out in the contract that no one reads...

 

[Freakbro]

Started a new job on the 31st May this year. Leave is from 1st January every year. SO am I right in saying I am entitled to 16.33 days leave? My employer includes bank holiday in the 28 days leave. So obviously thats 16.33 days - 3 days remaing bank holiday this year totalling 13.33 days. How does the 0.33 days work, does my employer have to round it to say a half day?

Hmm, that's a good question. Tbh, if the Bank holidays are included in the 28 days holiday then that is 20 days per year + 8 BH

So with you starting on the 31st May I would calculate your holiday as the pro rata of the 20 = 7/12 * 20 = 11.66 days

I would be very surprised if HR calculated pro-rata holiday dependent on the date someone started and how many BH's had already gone that year.

I may be doing it wrong and illegally, but there are so many grey areas when it comes to working out Hol Entitlement!

Also if the work place closes for a week over Christmas am I entitled to pay without taking holiday?

You are not entitled to that no, the employer is entitled to tell you when you can take your holiday, for periods of shutdown such as this.

But you can always request it and negotiate with your employer to see if they will let you.

 

[Snookums]

Hmm, that's a good question. Tbh, if the Bank holidays are included in the 28 days holiday then that is 20 days per year + 8 BH

So with you starting on the 31st May I would calculate your holiday as the pro rata of the 20 = 7/12 * 20 = 11.66 days

I would be very surprised if HR calculated pro-rata holiday dependent on the date someone started and how many BH's had already gone that year.

I may be doing it wrong and illegally, but there are so many grey areas when it comes to working out Hol Entitlement!



You are not entitled to that no, the employer is entitled to tell you when you can take your holiday, for periods of shutdown such as this.

But you can always request it and negotiate with your employer to see if they will let you.

Glad that clears up the Christmas closure.

I was calculating it at 28 days in a year. Obv if that includes bank hols it doesn't matter it's still the min. I didn't take into account prev bank holidays so 28/12 x 7 = 16.33 then - 3 remaining bank hols. As if it's 20/12 x7 surely that puts me under the the legal entitlement?

 

[Freakbro]

I was calculating it at 28 days in a year. Obv if that includes bank hols it doesn't matter it's still the min. I didn't take into account prev bank holidays so 28/12 x 7 = 16.33 then - 3 remaining bank hols. As if it's 20/12 x7 surely that puts me under the the legal entitlement?

I honestly don't know, as I showed that calculation can be done in a different way.

I understand the point that it seems to put you under the legal entitlement, but it is legal to include bank holidays in the min 28 days - and it's not the companies fault that there are only 3 BH's left by the time you started.

You would have to ask the people doing the payroll how they are calculating it, and argue your point if it's the lower amount

 

[HangTime]

As if it's 20/12 x7 surely that puts me under the the legal entitlement?

That's how much annual leave you'd get excluding the 3 remaining bank holidays. Most organisations have an annual leave entitlement excluding bank holidays and then add that on. So 14.66 in total by my reckoning.