Overtime counting towards holidays

[Neodite]

I'm surprised not to see a thread on this already. (Or maybe my search skills suck)

Here is the link to the outcome: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29896810

Now this is only so far, as it will most certainly to an appeal.

I'm not sure what I think really, on one hand we cover holidays here, so I get 22 days holiday and we are expected to cover 22 days overtime, else they won’t get that holiday and they won’t cover for us etc.

So for me it will mean an extra holiday or so, but also an extra overtime.

And also if companies are relying on overtime instead of getting enough workers to cover the work, they have been saving money by working people harder/longer.

But also if companies are made to backdate this for x amount of years it will probably crush smaller companies.

 

[Neodite]

I work around 30-90hrs extra per month of OT (voluntary, but virtually expected). What difference will this actually mean?

Will we get a lump sum if it goes through, or what?
Currently we get 1x salary too.

Dont think anyone is sure on a backdate yet. But yes you will get a lump sum if it is.

So how much overtime you have done, you workout how many holidays that would give you (1 and a half days a month or somthing?) and then you will get payed that amount for how much the holidays add up to.

That is how I read it anyway.

It also means if it goes threw you will get more holiday if you do enough overtime.

I might be wrong tho as I only just came across it.

 

[Neodite]

I think I understand this, but let me try and explain my situation.

When I left school I worked for a Garden Center for 3 years with a contract of 6 hours a week (specifically it was for a Saturday). The problem is I never actually worked the Saturday and instead I worked Mon-Fri, with working hours of 9-5.

Essentially I only ever got like 4/5 days holiday over the year. I appealed this loads of times, asking for a full time contract but never got it.

Would this mean I would be able to claim back the holiday pay I never took/was entitled to? Or am I missing the point entirely?

It depends if they decide to have it back dated. How long it is back dated if they do, and if you fall within that time.

 

[Neodite]

Thinking more about it, I guess it depends on why the overtime is worked.

Like here, we get 22 days holiday, and have to cover others. We work 4 on 4 off as a pair, and the pair that work the 4 that we have off, if they book those as holiday, I do 2 days overtime and he will do 2 days (6 12 hour shifts each)

So we cover 22 days overtime a year, so not really getting any holiday.

Now if the company employed somone to cover holidays they would be working 1056 hours a year or 88 days. So that is 11 days holiday.

So in this situation the company is saving 11 days worth of holiday pay a year. and making people work 72hours (6 12 hour shifts) Is that right? Probably not.

Oh and apparently they are limiting the back dating to 3 months.