- Conference
- 2018 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 1 December 2017
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that bank holidays are calculated pro-rata for part-time workers and believes in fair and equitable treatment for all.
Giving part-time employees a pro-rata Bank Holiday entitlement frequently leaves members who work on Mondays with a loss of annual leave.
For example in the leave year 2017/18 an employee who works 16 hours over 2 days is entitled to 29 Bank Holiday entitlement hours. This example employee works 8 hours on a Monday and a Tuesday only. There are 7 Bank Holidays which fall on these days in 2017/18 therefore 56 hours are needed to ‘pay for’ the Bank Holidays.
As this member only receives 29 hours of Bank Holiday entitlement the remainder has to be ‘paid for’ from their annual leave entitlement.
In this example the member has to use 27 hours of their annual leave entitlement to pay for their time off on the Bank Holidays.
Full-time workers never have to use any of their annual leave entitlement to “pay for” time off on Bank Holidays.
This issue is relevant and important as the health sector employs many part-time workers.
Conference believes that part-time workers who end up suffering a detriment when compared to full time workers should be protected.
Conference calls on the Service Group Executive to work with the NHS Staff Council to negotiate a way to stop this discrimination.