Hello,
I understand that laws introduced to prevent discrimination against part-time workers mean that where full time workers get paid bank holidays, part-timers are entitled to a pro rata payment or time in lieu.
Am I right to think that this means:
If a full time person works Monday to Friday, eight hours per day, this totals forty hours per week. He gets eight hours paid leave on the bank holiday. This is 8/40=20% of his contracted hours
So id a part timer works say half Wednesday and all day Thursday and Friday to total 20 hours per week would it be that they would be entitled to 20% of their hours = 4hours in payment or in lieu for the bank holiday, even though they do not work Mondays?
If so, that's all well and good but what happens when the part-timer works a couple of hours on the Monday but many more hours later in the week? Say that they work three hours on a Monday but eight hours on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Would they be paid three hours for a bank holiday because those are the hours they wok on a Monday usually? Or would they be entitled to 20% of their total hours which would be 27 *
0.2 = 5.4 hours?I know of a well-known supermarket that only pays what you work on a Monday and if you don't work on Monday you get nothing and this cannot be right.
Thanks in advance for your help.