Calculating holiday pay for hourly paid staff

tatli_lokma

Does anyone know the formula for working out how much holiday pay you would be entitled to as an hourly paid staff member?
My friend works different hours each week, and is paid hourly. She now has a new job (yippee!) but would be entitled to some holiday pay for the last few months she was working. Just not sure how it works....is it directly pro rata? in which case what is considered a standard working week? or is there a % of the total hours worked?

it probably won't be much more than a few quid, but its still her money so she should have it. Her last employer are not the nicest, pay poorly, treat people badly, so unless she knows what she is due and goes in armed with the facts then she has no hope of getting her money.

She rang citizens advice but they weren't sure...and the queue on the NERA phone line was 15 mins!

anyone who can help?

thanks in advance

Tails142

http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/media/annual_leave.pdf

Read this - basically it says 8% of total hours worked and can be paid in lieu at the normal hourly rate if the employment contract is terminated.

wmpdd3

Yes that is what most places use to work out statory holidays ie 20 days per year if they were full time.

8% of total hours worked since the start of the holiday year.

Gavin "shels"

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I work part-time paid by the hour, 15 hours a week usually, so I get 8% of that paid ye? Do I get that pay at the end of the year or when I take my holidays?

D.McC

What is it about holiday pay, every time the question pops up the standard answer seems to be 8%.

Holiday pay is calculated three ways. The 8% of total hours worked is only one of the ways it can be done. The employee is allowed to use whichever of the three ways allows the employee the greatest number of holiday days, so long as this doesn’t exceed 20 days.

As a general rule of thumb, a weeks holiday leave should equal the minimum weekly take home pay of the employee.

The rules regarding calculating holiday pay for part-time workers is the same.

wmpdd3

Gavin shels wrote: »

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I work part-time paid by the hour, 15 hours a week usually, so I get 8% of that paid ye? Do I get that pay at the end of the year or when I take my holidays?

The 8% rule works well for places where you only work a small amount of hours per week, but might do a few extra hours over christmas etc. You can accrue holiday hours on all hours worked.

So If holiday year starts in March and you worked 24 weeks by 15 hrs up till now, you have 28.8 hrs holidays, so If you take 2 weeks off you could get paid for 28.8 hrs. By Oct you could have another 15 hrs built up so another week off with 15 hrs pay. After Christmas in March you may have 19 hrs hols built up so take 1 week off get paid for 19 hrs.

You are entitled to take 4 weeks off per year, if you choose, as far as I know you can get paid your holiday money instead, but I don't know of any companies that do that.

worth a look here:

http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/media/Workingtimeact.pdf