Extra Holiday entitlement

I am currently employed in a job share, working 3 days one week and 2 the next. In October of last year the company had redundancies and since then I have been working an extra day each week and also covering holidays for the secretaries.

This year I will have done an extra 57 days. When I was first asked to do this I asked about the extra days, and was told that, it was just over time and that I would not be entitled to extra holidays. I am not getting paid over time rates, so therefore should I not be entitled to the extra holidays.

I calculate that I should be entitled to 4 days

20 full entitlement / 52 weeks x 11 weeks extra = 4.2.

Wanted to know if this was correct before speaking to HR again.

How many days do HR say you are entitled ...

It looks like 10 days a year , if you are working 3 -2 days part-time ...


Did you previously work 46 weeks a year, and get 20 days

My normally entitlement is 12 days and has been since I started the job share 4 years ago.

Thay are saying not entitled to any extra days for the extra 57 days worked.

You may not be entitled to overtime for the extra day. An employer can decide that over time only applies after an employee has worked the equivalent of a full working week. In your case, you are not doing that, therefore you are only getting paid extra hours, as opposed to overtime.

There are 3 ways of calculating your entitlement, and you get whichever is most beneficial to you. The calculation is based on hours worked in the relevant year, regardless of how your employer is categorising them. See here for details
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/c...ave-and-holidays/annual_leave_public_holidays

8% of house worked, see Working Time Act for more details.

Towger said:

8% of house worked, see Working Time Act for more details.

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What some employers do for part time staff is at the end of the year, they calculate any extra hours worked, calculate how much additional annual leave they are entitled to and make a payment accordingly, ie, if you are a part timer and work 100 extra hours a year, you get an additional 8 hours paid at year end.

As far as I know an employer cannot insist on paying you for holiday entitlement under the Working Time Act, you have to be allowed to take them as holidays.
Sybil

Hi, There are job shares in our company also. They work a 20 hour week,so even if they worked an extra 19 hours overtime, It is at a flat rate. They have to work 39 hours and then anything above that is classed at time and a half or double. As for accumulating extra holiday hours for extra hours worked , I calculate it to be 4.218 but I would settle for the 4.2. All companies differ but in ours for example you would not be paid for the extra 4.2 days you gained at year end. The hours accrued are added on to your existing holiday hours, Best of luck with HR.

HI

You are 100% entitled to extra holidays. It does not matter what you started out with etc, you are working a certain amount of hours so therefore you should get the holidays to suit. It is always better to ring and confirm this with the NERA (Natonal employment rights authority) 1890 80 80 90 locall.

You can then approach your employer with the correct information. Its also best to approach the matter with a good attitute. It is possible they may not know this regardless of the fact that as an employer they should know their employees rights, but give them the benefit of the doubt and keep your working relationship a good one if you can. Good luck

Thanks for all the replies. Just a little up date to let you know I have now had the extra holiday argeed