Holiday entitlement for self employed

Marble man

Hi.

I’m just wondering what if any entitlement I have regarding bank holidays. My company are sub contracted in to do work for a large building company and have been working for them constantly for the last 4 months. I have a number of employees to pay for the bank holiday Monday gone and I’m wondering if I would have any entitlement to bill the construction company for the bank holiday as if all my lads had been working for that day. I’d imagine I don’t have any chance of being able to do this but said I’d throw it out here to see what the story is. Thanks I’m advance

yabadabado

Would you not take that into account when you are pricing the job ?

Kevin Finnerty

Why not bill for the lads that were there on a bank holiday and hope for the best retrospectively?

Should have had this covered though. Live and learn.

troyzer

A couple of the guys I work with are contracted in by a company. But some of them have the same contract as a self employed worker.

The self employed guys get more money but no holidays, the other lads are paid less but are paid for holidays.

Just based off that I would imagine that the contracting company isn't billing directly for those bank holidays and would have taken holiday pay into account when they tendered.

So in your case, you should have taken this into account ages ago. You can't bill a company for work not done.

antix80

Does your barber ask you for a payment when he's taking his summer holidays?