Troubleshooting Public holiday accrual for a part-time employee?

This article will help you troubleshoot why your Part-time employee has not accrued Public Holidays correctly and how to fix it.

Part-time and Full-time employees will accrue their Public Holiday Balances in the same way. 

As we know, part-timers work similarly to full-timers, in that they have standard contracted hours which they must work each week. However, they may work additional hours when required. 

Part-Time employees will accrue their Public Holiday balance based on their contracted hours only. 

For Example

An employee on a Part-Time 20-hour Contract will accrue 4 hours for the bank holiday. This is regardless of the additional hours they may have worked in the weeks previous. 

If your employee normally works a longer day, for example, 6 hours over 3 days, you can manually update this to match the hours worked in the accrual, however, this will cause the Bank Holiday balance in your Holiday Balances in Staff Profile to display as a minus figure. 

 

To check your employees contracted hours, please follow the steps below. 

  • Using the menu, navigate to Staff Profiles. 
  • From the staff list, select the employee you wish to check. In the staff profile, navigate to Employment > Contract on the left-hand panel. 
  • In this view you will see "Std (Contracted) Hours" 

  • The hours listed here will be used to calculate the Public Holiday balance. 
    • If you wish to manually calculate this figure, take the contracted hours and divide it by 5.
20 hours ÷ 5 = 4 hours 

If you wish to change this accrual to match, you have 3 options available to you 

  1. Keep the part-time contract and update the standard contracted hours to match the actual hours worked
  2. You can change the employee's contract type to casual
  3. You can manually extend out the shift - for help with this, click here

For more information on holiday balances, click here