Booked annual leave on weeks with Bank Holidays

joewyan · Post by **joewyan** » 21 Nov 2018, 00:04

LaggyBand wrote:Mate at our office tries to book all weeks on bank holiday weeks so you end up with another week to book. Good system if you aren’t bothered about school holidays. Plus it means you miss those weeks where we try to deliver six days worth of post in five.

Surely at least 3 weeks with bank holidays in them are school holidays anyway? (End of May, Easter Friday week and Easter Monday week)

daveyeff · Post by **daveyeff** » 21 Nov 2018, 16:43

joewyan wrote:
LaggyBand wrote:Mate at our office tries to book all weeks on bank holiday weeks so you end up with another week to book. Good system if you aren’t bothered about school holidays. Plus it means you miss those weeks where we try to deliver six days worth of post in five.
Surely at least 3 weeks with bank holidays in them are school holidays anyway? (End of May, Easter Friday week and Easter Monday week)

and august.

postmanzach · Post by **postmanzach** » 22 Nov 2018, 00:48

As I said, it should be calculated by hours not days. This came in year or two ago but most managers haven’t caugjt on yet. Il try googling it hold on m..

postmanzach · Post by **postmanzach** » 22 Nov 2018, 00:52

daveyeff wrote:seems daft really. a day is a day. we work only 7hrs 25mins on Tuesdays. so if they give you 7hrs 25mins for that day,...….its STILL a day off. you aren't getting any more or any less.

Exactly’ we have two weeks we work over our hours (Wednesday or a Thursday off) and 2 weeks under (we have Friday and Saturday off or Monday and Tuesday. off). Over 4 weeks it averages out.
So some guys picked all the weeks off with Wednesday or Thursday off. This has changed now so it’s calculated by hours and it’s national thing, or it’s should be

LaggyBand · Post by **LaggyBand** » 22 Nov 2018, 03:35

joewyan wrote:
LaggyBand wrote:Mate at our office tries to book all weeks on bank holiday weeks so you end up with another week to book. Good system if you aren’t bothered about school holidays. Plus it means you miss those weeks where we try to deliver six days worth of post in five.
Surely at least 3 weeks with bank holidays in them are school holidays anyway? (End of May, Easter Friday week and Easter Monday week)

Sorry, I meant the long summer school holiday. The one in August misses it round ‘ere.