Annual Leave entitlement

[sanafz100]

Hi
Does anyone know reason full time contracted hours changed from 38hours per to 37hours per week on 10/12/2021 and how this impacts the total annual leave hours entitlement. Should it be 228hours for the year or 222hours for the year? Does this include bank holidays?
I have the maximum 6 weeks leave entitlement, what should happen with bank holidays? If annual leave day is on a bank holiday is it only deducted from the allowance and no credit?
Thank you

[kiki123]

I had issue with this last year as I had taken 5 weeks leave before December and tried to book last week they said I didn’t have a week left but I said I’m entitled to 6 weeks took it to union rep who never gave me answer basically if u took all your leave after dec u got more than 6 weeks if u took them before less by few hours my argument was I’m entitled to 6 weeks in the end they let me book it but I owed them a few hours off the following year oversight from union I believe when agreeing reduction in hours midway through year

[97gaz]

Annual leave is worked in hours so if you are entitled to 6 weeks, you'll get 6x your weekly contracted hours. A full timer on 38 hours will therefore get 228 hours. However any contract hours change will screw that up for the first year.

With the reduction to 37 hours in Dec, it means you get 3/4 of your hours at 38 hours and 1/4 of your hours at 37 hours. That's 171+55.5 so your entitlement this year should be 226.5. This means that if you have taken 5 weeks before December at 38 hours, then you've used up 190 hours, only leaving you 36.5 hours in the pot and not enough for a weeks leave at 37 hours.

Next year the entitled hours for a f/t should be 6 x x37 =222

The system should automatically credit you back the BH if you are on leave by only taking 4 days from your leave instead of five. However if th BH falls on your scheduled day off then the manager needs to go in and give you a manual credit.

[rambo1]

Our annual leave system is laughable.