holiday entitlement for part-time workers - conflict of policies?

[hutia]

Dear All,
I have a question regarding a relationship between two policies : a general government one and the local one relating to holiday entitlement for part time workers. In particular, I wanted to know if one could ingnore a local one if one feels that it's clearly less favourable, or does one still have to comply with it?

The particular example is:

The general government policy states that:
Part-time workers are also entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid holiday each year, https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement)
but a local policy says that:

'Annual leave and public holiday entitlement for part-time workers will be calculated prorata to full time hours i.e. if 50% of full time hours are worked then entitlement to annual leave and public holidays will be 50%.'
This means that under the local policy part time workers have fewer days of annual leave if they work 5 days a week.
Is my reasoning correct? Perhaps I am missing something. Some comments would be appreciated. I have raised this with HR who designs policies but no reply.


Regards,

Hutia

[ploddertom]

Re: holiday entitlement for part-time workers - conflict of policies?

If you work 20 hours per week regardless of the number of days then you will still get 20 x 5.6 = 112 hours per year as holiday entitlement. No you are not losing out but perhaps it is the way it is written.