job sharing and dealing with bank holidays

[agencydude]

Hi
I have a query about people who work half time and how should the bank holidays be dealt with.
An example would be one person who works the first 2.5 days of the week and the 2nd person who works the last 2.5 days of the week.
Typically the bank holiday would fall on the Monday so the person who works the first half of the week gets the benefit of the bank holiday.
Then the person who works the 2nd half of the week doesn't benefit from the bank holiday.
Surely if both people are clocking up the same hrs etc they should get equal benefit?
But it doesn't like this is the case in the above example. One person works 1.5 days in the week while the other person works 2.5 days in the bank holiday week.

Has anyone dealt with this scenario before and how was it dealt with?

 

[Mrs Vimes]

Found this on citizens information - basically the person who is rostered to work gets the day off or day in lieu or days extra pay and person who is not rostered gets one-fifth of weekly pay (assuming they have been there long enough etc).

In your case Mon-Wed person gets Monday off and Wed-Fri person gets an extra half day's leave or pay.

 

[Black Sheep]

Job-sharing is a different situation to part-time working so public holidays have different rules to part-timers.

My OH was a job-sharer some years (the first with that company). The company agreed to the request of both parties on a cost neutral basis.
Each received a half days pay for every Public holiday plus Good Friday which was treated as a Public Holiday in that employment.

Each worked 5 of those holidays (9 Public Holidays + Good Friday)