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lieu days for four day week

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Iva bigredbag
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lieu days for four day week

Post by Iva bigredbag »

Well the revision goes through in my office next week and I have been given a four day week duty, every Monday and Tuesday off. What does this mean for bank holidays, will I get lieu days for every bank holiday Monday ? and holidays will I get an extra week holiday since I am only getting four days holiday when I have a week off.
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Iva bigredbag wrote:Well the revision goes through in my office next week and I have been given a four day week duty, every Monday and Tuesday off. What does this mean for bank holidays, will I get lieu days for every bank holiday Monday ? and holidays will I get an extra week holiday since I am only getting four days holiday when I have a week off.
Time of is accrued in hours so if you do 30 hrs over 4 days, you book 3o hrs off. So no, you don't get extra leave in that fashion. If you get 5 weeks now, you get 5 weeks after.
However, as you have every Monday off, you do get every BH back in lieu, so you will get an extra 6 or 7 days a year from that. Enjoy.
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Iva bigredbag wrote:Well the revision goes through in my office next week and I have been given a four day week duty, every Monday and Tuesday off. What does this mean for bank holidays, will I get lieu days for every bank holiday Monday ? and holidays will I get an extra week holiday since I am only getting four days holiday when I have a week off.
theres a fair chance it wont be every mon tue off it could be wed thur off the week after then fri sat off after that .
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Re: lieu days for four day week

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i havent known anyone to constantly have the same day off
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Re: lieu days for four day week

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bringon4dayweeks wrote:i havent known anyone to constantly have the same day off
Well this is what has been agreed with the union and RM, plus the repicks are finished, and work rotas have been accepted, so I would be surprised if this was changed, in the immediate future anyway.
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You will not be entitled to every bank holiday. There is a formula for working out the maximum bank holidays you can reclaim if you are part time. Basically it is a percentage based on the percentage of hours you work compared to full time contracted hours. ie if you work 19.5 hours that is 50% of full time, so you would be entitled to reclaim 50% of the number of bank holidays that you are not due to work.
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Re: lieu days for four day week

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Iva bigredbag wrote:
bringon4dayweeks wrote:i havent known anyone to constantly have the same day off
Well this is what has been agreed with the union and RM, plus the repicks are finished, and work rotas have been accepted, so I would be surprised if this was changed, in the immediate future anyway.
so is there any more 4 day weeks agreed ?
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Re: lieu days for four day week

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It is agreed nationally that you are entitled to an average 1 in 6 weekends off so your union rep should not be agreeing the walk to have a constant Monday and Tuesday off.
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coxie wrote:It is agreed nationally that you are entitled to an average 1 in 6 weekends off so your union rep should not be agreeing the walk to have a constant Monday and Tuesday off.
somethings of with this coxie hes getting screw£d over because someone else will be getting every friday and saturday off plus they wont have to worry about bank holidays like hes suggesting
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Re: lieu days for four day week

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bringon4dayweeks wrote:
coxie wrote:It is agreed nationally that you are entitled to an average 1 in 6 weekends off so your union rep should not be agreeing the walk to have a constant Monday and Tuesday off.
somethings of with this coxie hes getting screw£d over because someone else will be getting every friday and saturday plus they wont have to worry about bank holidays like hes suggesting
hes having the two easiest days off and hes happy . i would be up in smoke complaining