maternity leave holiday pay

bobmalooka

A very long story but the mrs was told her job was gone returning from maternity leave (contract not renewed), dont worry she's chasing that down but does anyone know how many holiday days were accrued for her maternity leave (23 feb to 22 august) she only gets basic entitlements.

Eoin

Here you go (from here):

There are 3 different ways of calculating your annual leave entitlement:

Based on the employee's working hours during what is called the leave year, which runs from April to March. An employee who has worked at least 1,365 hours in the leave year is entitled to the maximum of 4 working weeks' annual leave unless the employment ceases during the leave year. Many employers use the calendar year (January-December) instead of the official leave year to calculate entitlement

By allowing 1/3 of a working week for each calendar month in which the employee has worked at least 117 hours

8% of the hours worked in the leave year, subject to a maximum of 4 weeks
An employee may use whichever of these methods gives the greater entitlement. Generally, the annual leave for part-time workers is calculated using the 3rd method, that is, 8% of hours worked.