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4 weeks pro-rata
minimum number of weeks is 4
if the employee works 2 days a week then they are entitled to 8 days of a year (their equivalent of having 4 weeks off)
it gets slightly more complicated for those employees who do not work set hours every week but www.acas.org.uk shows you how to calculate the number hours the employee is entitled
hope this helps
Alex
Minimum 20 days full time
Hi David,
I believe the minimum holiday entitlement is 20 days for full time workers, therefore this works out as 12 days for someone who is working a 3 day week for example (although I can't remember how we worked this out).
Hope that helps,
Angela
God blees the Working time directive
we should all get lots of holidays and Europe says that we should all have it (inc subbies) however no one has tild ne as a s/e person who pays for mine!
Holiday entitlement
The official line is 20 days based on a five day week, however this can include bank holidays. This means that it is possible to only have 12 days of bookable holiday for full time workers. This practice is dying out (and there are rumblings that it will soon become contractual to have 20 days plus bank holidays). For part time workers it becomes slightly more complex if you use the "20 days including bank holidays" route as you need to pro-rata everything. As Alex says, check on the acas website, they have a decent manual that copes with the intricacies.
Bank holidays
Hi David,
As said below, there is some debate about bank holidays still going on, and this can affect part-time workers. As bank holidays are normally on Mondays, if you have a part-time employee who works Mondays, it is usual to give them this day off. If they don't work Mondays normally, then you don't need to give them a day off in lieu of a bank holiday.
Remember that this year those of us that are allowed, get a standard two days in lieu of Christmas day & Boxing day in England/Wales as these fall on a weekend. Just to complicate things further.
Let's all have 25 days plus bank holidays and be done with it I say!
Angela