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Set up part-time employees

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Introduction

If you have part-time employees in your organisation, you'll need to configure them differently than full-time ones. This is so that they are given the correct amount of annual leave & their work pattern is configured correctly. 

The calculations and information within this article are all guidelines for how you could set up your part-time employees within Cintra People HR.

Work patterns

Part-time employees are normally offered a pro-rata amount of the full-time allowance. You should create a new work pattern for each part-time scenario you have in your organisation. 

For example: 

A company of 50 employees:

  • 20 employees are full-time

  • 10 employees work 3 days per week: Monday, Wednesday & Friday

  • Five employees work 3 days per week: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday  

  • Three employees work five days per week but reduced hours

  • Two employees work two days per week

Work patterns now allow you to cater for more complex shift patterns, e.g.

  • Employees who work a multi-week pattern (that repeats every four weeks)

  • Employees who work a rolling shift pattern (e.g. 10 days on, 10 days off)

This would result in five work patterns: one for the full-time employees, and four different ones for the part-timers.

To ensure that part-time employee don’t automatically receive public holidays they’re not entitled to, you should create a suitable public holiday profile and assign it to them.

For more information, see Guide: work patterns and Public holiday profiles

Calculations

To calculate the part-time equivalent Leave Allowance, there are 2 calculations that can be used. 

Calculation 1: This can be used if your Part Time employees work the same number of hours in a day as full time employees, but a reduced number of days per week. 

Using the examples above: 

  • 10 work 3 days per week: Monday, Wednesday & Friday 

  • 5 work 3 days per week: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 

  • 2 work 2 days per week

Steps:

  1. Add Full Time allowance and Public Holidays together 

  2. Divide this by 5 (number of FT days per week) / 40 (number of FT hours per week)

  3. Multiply this number by the number of days / hours the PT employees work 

Example

Let's use an example of 22 days/176 hours FT annual leave & 8 days/64 hours Public Holidays, along with the 10 employees who work Monday, Wednesday & Fridays. 

22 + 8 = 30                                 176 + 64 = 240

30 / 5 = 6                                     240 / 40 = 6

6 x 3 = 18                                    6 x 24 = 144

The Part Time employees should be granted 18 days / 144 hours annual leave, inclusive of their Public Holidays.

Calculation 2: This can be used for all Part Time employees, including those on reduced hours. 

Where Part Time employees work the same number of days in a week as Full Time employees, but a reduced number of hours, you'll need to use above calculation, but change the days to hours. 

Steps:

  1. Add Full Time allowance and Public Holidays together

  2. Multiply this by the number of hours in a day for Full Time

  3. Divide this by 5 (the number of FT days per week)

  4. Multiply this by hours in a day that the Part Time employees work - this will give you the allowance in hours 

Optional - 5. Divide this by the hours in a day that the Full Time employees work - this will give you the allowance in days 

Example

Still using the example of 22 days FT annual leave & 8 Public Holidays, let's say our employees work 8 hours a day, while our Part Time employees work 10 hours across the week.

  • 22 + 8 = 30

  • 30 * 8 = 240

  • 240 / 5 = 48

  • 48 x 2 = 96

  • Optional - 96 / 8 = 12

The part time employees should be granted 96 hours / 12 days annual leave, inclusive of their Public Holidays.