My wife works 3 days a week Monday-Wednesday. When a Bank Holiday on a Monday comes along she loses money. Does anyone know how they they work the percentage out?
Thank you in advance.

She does not work full time so only entitled to 1/5th of her working week to cover for the bank holiday, I would expect.

Good practice for part timers is to add together her annual company days entitlement, say 60 percent of, for example, 22 = 13.2, then add to this the 8 Statutory Days, giving a total for the year of 21.2 days, to be taken by agreement. Anything less than this is stingy, you should be entitled to the Stats (a full day's pay) as they fall.

I'd say that she shouldn't lose money.

Based on a 7 hour working day, your wife is 0.6 of a FTE. Statutory Bank Holidays should be paid at this rate - 0.6 x 7 hours.

UpTheClarets has a wages department now? We've come on leaps and bounds since this time last year.

Almost all workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks
To calculate leave multiply 3 (days) x 5.6 works out at 16.8 annual days leave.
The reason she may lose money is that the Employer may include Bank Holidays as part of the 5.6 weeks entitlement.

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement- ... ntitlement" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bank holidays
Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave.
An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.

If you treat em badly, Tim, then you'll get back what you deserve. Businesses have to decide where to position themselves and that could be by paying better than the absolute minimum. Don't listen to the Alan Sugars of this world - got money but nowt else.

avalondreamer wrote:My wife works 3 days a week Monday-Wednesday. When a Bank Holiday on a Monday comes along she loses money. Does anyone know how they they work the percentage out?
Thank you in advance.

I would say to clear up any confusion she should ask the person who calculates and pays her wage!

I actually live in Southern Ireland and would not have thought there would be any difference between how bank holidays are paid here and the UK, my wife works 7 x 11 days over a two week period, when bank holidays come up if she works one she gets paid 11 hrs + 11 hrs = 22 hrs, if she doesn't work it she gets paid 1/5th of her weekly wage for average of the previous 6 weeks, generally works out at about 7.8 hrs pay and that is the correct legal way in Ireland, but if you take the bank holiday as a holiday if you should have worked it as she say would have been rostered on that day but wanted to take it off, then they have to pay the day at 11 hours.