Are part time workers who work 25 hours a week entitled to holiday pay?

Question

I want to go on holiday in September and by then I would have been working there for 5 months. I work Monday to Friday 9.00 - 2.20. But my boss says that I'm not entitiled to any holiday pay. Is that right?

Answer 1

Assuming you are in UK - absolutely not!!!! (I can't speak for other countries) You are entitled to the same holiday entitlement as full-time employees pro-rata, (i.e. if full time is 40 hours and you work 25 you are entitled to 25/40ths of the holiday time) However, some companies can insist that you work for a certain length of time before you can take a paid holiday. Your terms and conditions of employment should stipulate company policy. Your legal minimum is 20 days paid holiday a year under EU legislation. Check out ACAS website or phone them.

Answer 2

All workers have the right to a minimum amount of annual holiday. The statutory minimum entitlement is to four weeks holiday a year, based on your normal working week. For example, if you work:

20 hours a week, your statutory holiday entitlement is four 20-hour weeks
three days each week, you have the right to 12 days' holiday - that's four weeks of three days each
Many employers give more than the statutory minimum amount of holiday (for example, paid bank holidays). Under the regulations part-timers should be treated no less favourably; this normally means that a part time worker will get a pro rata proportion of what the full time workers get - including any extra days for bank holidays.

Answer 3

I work part-time and get holiday pay. Anyone who works should be entitled to holiday pay. I would give your Labor Board a call and find out from them. Maybe your boss thinks you want your holiday pay now which wouldn't be very much since you've only been there a couple of months. There could just be a misunderstanding.

Answer 4

If some full timer who works 35 hours per week gets 21 days holiday per year then you would also be entitled to 21 days holiday per year.

I know some people have said that you would get less pro rata but that is you getting less pro rata.
For each days holiday a full timer takes they get paid for 7 hours, while for each days holiday that you take you only get paid for 5 hours. ( pro rata )

The figures are only examples but you are entitled to the same number of days as the full timers.
The only difference between firms is that some will give you your days at the start of the year for you to take anytime during the year, while others prefer to let you have maybe one and a half days for every month you have worked so that folk don't take all their paid holiday early in the year and then leave.

Either way you are entitled to your paid holidays.

Answer 5

Holiday pay and leave is determined by company policy. If they offer it to you when you start (it will be in their information packet, policy letter, what ever) then you'll get it when your obligations are met. Otherwise you will be taking leave without pay or terminal leave. These are easy times for getting a job, review what is being offered to you before you start the job. But remember, when you get a real job that pays big bucks you will have to sell your soul to the company.

Answer 6

That is rubbish and your boss is trying to pull a fast one! Course you are entitled to holiday pay. I would see citizens advise and contact your union if you have one. Join a union if you don't belong to one.

Answer 7

I work 8 hrs per week, 1 day. Therefore for every working weeks hols the full timers get, I get 1 day paid

Answer 8

You are not yet entitled to holiday pay because you had not yet worked long enough to earn holiday leave which is accummulated only after one year of service under the applicable provisions of the Labor Laws.

Answer 9

No you are entitled to holiday pay, just pro-rata what someone who works ful time would get.

Answer 10

no way is that right! you are entitled to holiday with pay in the uk. check out this website. if you're in a union ask your rep, if you're not then join!
good luck
m x