holiday pay?

[mandco]

anyone know how holiday pay is worked out?
In dd's job they accrue holiday pay rather than hours but they never seem to pay her hardly anything. They say they work it out as an average but even when she works her normal hours in the run up they pay her way less than her usual pay.
She has just had 3 weekends off as holiday and they paid her less than £60 for the 6 shifts that she missed which doesn't seem right to me. In the month or so before she did have 2 days of sick (they don't get sick pay) and they only gave her 1 shift one week but otherwise she normally does 14-16 hours a week.

I also wondered if she was able to request to be paid some of her holiday pay as at this rate she'll never be paid anywhere near the amount she has accrued.

thanks

[Twentyyears]

I can help but how many hours a weeek she is contracted for she work and whther she is paid monthly or weekly.
It is standard in retail, and elsewhere, for short hours contracts staff to get holiday for their contracted hours and holiday pay for their extra hours.

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Originally Posted by mandco

anyone know how holiday pay is worked out?
In dd's job they accrue holiday pay rather than hours but they never seem to pay her hardly anything. They say they work it out as an average but even when she works her normal hours in the run up they pay her way less than her usual pay.
She has just had 3 weekends off as holiday and they paid her less than £60 for the 6 shifts that she missed which doesn't seem right to me. In the month or so before she did have 2 days of sick (they don't get sick pay) and they only gave her 1 shift one week but otherwise she normally does 14-16 hours a week.

I also wondered if she was able to request to be paid some of her holiday pay as at this rate she'll never be paid anywhere near the amount she has accrued.

thanks

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It is hard to comment without a bit more information. What type of contract is she on, is it zero hours or something else? Also would need to know her pay rate to be able to say if the £60 is correct.

[Minnie18]

You can have a look and put all details into the gov holiday pay website. It all seems odd to me.

[keith1973]

It would be worked out on contracted hour not hour worked if she has a 16 hour a week contract that’s all she will get paid holiday for.

[lizzie145]

As others have said it depends on her contract.
Those on a zero hours contract will get a pro rata amount paid every quarter
If contract gives annual leave as days then this would be clear and whether she can take them as days or paid

[britishgirl]

I used to work variable hours and holiday pay was around 12% of my total pay,the company I worked for paid this every month on top of my wages for that month, so I didnt recieve holiday pay as such when I was actually on holiday

[2waterford]

I am in Ireland so maybe things are a bit different but both my sons work in restaurants at weekends and summer holidays. Both get paid 8% holiday pay every week.

[fredflintstone]

Contract or not is irrelevant.

The spirit of the law, and now confirmed with several court cases, is an employee should not be any worse off when they go on holiday. It can be complicatd by contract hours and non contract hours, but your holiday pay must take both into consideration.

I think the gov.uk website says the average of the last 17 weeks pay should be use if there is not a method in place. But the important thing is that the employee does not see a dip in pay because they are not working those extra hours they normally do when they re on holidays.

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Originally Posted by fredflintstone

Contract or not is irrelevant.

The spirit of the law, and now confirmed with several court cases, is an employee should not be any worse off when they go on holiday. It can be complicatd by contract hours and non contract hours, but your holiday pay must take both into consideration.

I think the gov.uk website says the average of the last 17 weeks pay should be use if there is not a method in place. But the important thing is that the employee does not see a dip in pay because they are not working those extra hours they normally do when they re on holidays.

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The nature of the contract is definitely relevant. A fixed hours contract would have fixed holiday hours, a zero hours contract would have variable holiday hours due, depending on what hours were worked. That is why people have asked for the contract details.