How much holiday pay I am owed?

McGraw · 4 Sep 2018 at 22:47

Hello. Would appreciate some help here.

Assuming the following:

24 days holiday (3 days compulsary and must be taken Xmas)
Holiday year starts 1/1 (I was already working on this date)
Holidays based on weekly pay (salary paid monthly however)
37.5hrs p/w contractual
9.5 days paid leave taken at time of leaving (28/8/18 final day)
Company handbook wants me to believe I am only entitled to holiday pay for full months worked

How many days holiday am I legally owed and why?

My former employer says 4.5 days. I think this should be more like 6.

Thanks very much.

McGraw · 4 Sep 2018 at 22:49

McGraw · 4 Sep 2018 at 22:57

dholdi said:
Why do you think the company handbook is incorrect ?
2 days per full month worked = 14 days, you've took 9.5 leaving 4.5.

If I worked 28 days of my first month then left I would have accrued no holiday pay?

Is this really a thing?

McGraw · 4 Sep 2018 at 23:01

dholdi said:
If that's what it says in your companies t&c's then yes.

At what point does what they want to happen become unenforceable?

Gov site says it isn't calculated to whole months.

McGraw · 4 Sep 2018 at 23:07

McGraw · 4 Sep 2018 at 23:20

dholdi said:
I'm not sure what you are getting at.
All of the companies I have worked for accrued holidays in this manner.
If we went back to your example in post#4 would you expect to be able to take 1.9 ish days off ?

In the most basic format I would normally accrue 2 holiday days per month.

Why should you get 0 holidays for working 4 weeks of a calendar month (or 20/23 working days)?

1 day maybe. 1.5 is fairer.

0 is ridiculous and unfair.

McGraw · 5 Sep 2018 at 22:13

Maccy said:
You should have left a few days later if you wanted the extra holiday pay!

Thanks for that.

I had no idea things worked like this...and they shouldn't.

If I had happened to do this in February then all would have been well.