A friend works part time 5 days per week for a local authority. She
received a contract of employment in December 2007 in which it states
that she is entitled to 22 days holiday PLUS 10 days statutory
holidays. They have now deducted pay for the last Bank Holiday and
said that it is under new rules and bank holidays and statutory
holidays would not be paid in future. On enquiring what the new
holiday entitlement was she was told that as she only worked part time
she was only entitled to 9 hours paid holiday. (She works 11 hours
over 5 days). I told her that from October last year I believe that
she was entitled to 24 days holiday paid at the rate she would
normally get per day and that they were not allowed to treat part-time
staff any differently to full time staff. Her boss disagrees, and
disputes the 4.8 x 5 days calculation. She says that my friends
holidays are calculated by the hours that she works. Is she right, or
is she just out of touch with current legislation? BTW I thought that
changes to contract of employment had to be agreed by both employer
and employee.
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