The position concerning holidays, bank holidays and part-time workers can be complex. Full time workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks (28 days) of annual leave per annum. Under the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, part time workers have the right to a proportion of the 5.6 weeks paid annual leave (28…
Lay-off and Short-time working, (or ‘LOST’) can be used as an alternative to compulsory redundancies. A LOST situation can arise when there is a downturn in work, or in the funds necessary to allow for full-time employment. LOST situations have arisen in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.How is Redundancy different to LOST…
Part-timers, like full-timers, are entitled to take sufficient paid leave to be away from work for the equivalent of 5.6 weeks in a full leave-year.A weeks’ leave should be the same as the length of time worked in a normal week. Where full-timers get additional leave to the statutory requirement, then part-timers are also entitled…