I have an employee who works 40 hours over a four day week. Is he entitled to 16 or 20 days paid holiday?
All employees are entitled to a minimum of four weeks paid holiday plus bank holidays. The actual number of work days off is based on the number of days they work through the week. In this employee’s case the total number of working days off is 16 plus 6.4 days for bank holidays, for a three day working week it would be 12 days plus 4.8 days for bank holidays. It is always better to calculate holidays based on weeks rather than days as a working week will always be a working week (no matter how many working days there are) where as the number of working days [per week] may change throughout the year making if nearly impossible to calculate correctly.
