Hi,

Grateful if someone could offer me some advice. The company I work for is in the mnotor trade and therefore only recognises the Xmas and New Year period as public holidays. Living in Scotland there are two main Public Holidays; Xmas and the New Year amounting to 4 days. I have a part-time job where I work 3 days (Tues, Wed and Thurs). The company's policy is to utilise the individuals leave entitlement for these public holidays. With the new 2008 leave arrangements this has somewhat softened the blow. However this year the second day of the public hoilday (ie Boxing Day, and 2nd Jan) falls on Friday - my normal day off.

Can I assume that only two days (Xmas Day and New Years day) can be held back against my leave allocation for this year.

Regards
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Are you saying that your contract stipulates that Public Holidays are included in your holiday entitlement?
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Do you want to be paid for 2 days or 3 days in Christmas week?
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Thank you for your replies but I guess I didn't explain this very well. Yes Antonia the leave entitlement includes Public Holidays - which I am OK with, particularly as the new 2008 Leave arrangements allow for this with the increase of additional days.

For this year; if I provide a day of my holiday for Xmas Day (Thursday) - yes I expect to be (and will be) paid for the 3 days (2 days work and I day Holiday). However I do not believe I should lose a days holiday for (Fri), a day I do not normally work - or am I incorrect.
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If they make you take it as a holiday you should be paid for 4 days that week,
are you saying you would prefer to be paid for 3 days and have the extra day
at another time? If so, it depends on the wording of your contract.

Bank holidays are a red herring, you are entitled to just under 14 and 1/2 days
if your contract says you have to take the 4 days bank holidays as part of it
you have just under 10 and 1/2 floating days.
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If your Company operate to the statutory minimum then you would be entitled to 3/5 of the now 24 days.
However, if you have full time employees you should be on 3/5 of what they get (if they are on 28 for instance you should be on 3/5 of that)
If the contract states these certain days are taken off and they are not your normal working day, then those days would come off your yearly allowance but you would get an extra days pay for the affected pay weeks.
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