Confused over condensed week holiday

[CoffeeWillAlwaysLoveMe]

Hello there, I wondering if someone can confirm if how my employers have worked out my holiday is correct.

I returned for a years maternity leave to 26 days holiday (including accrued). Our holiday yr runs October to October and I returned in mid Feb.

I am now working a compressed week. 5 days in 4 (totalling 37 hrs). My daily hours are not set as I need to be flexible to move things around. But I generally have Thursdays off, and work 3 long days and one slighty shorter.

My HR took months to tell me how my compressed holiday would work (in fact they only implemented it last month), but finally have reduced my remaining holiday from 26 to 20 days. I didn't think to question it until I found out two of my colleagues work a compressed week and take their holiday in hours and a couple of my friends flagged they thought it didn't sound quite right.

Does it sound ok? I can't get my head around it. Grateful for any insights.

[ememem84]

Hey may have condensed it into hours but told you in days if you see what I mean? Makes it easier to digest. I'd be confused rig told I had x hours holiday. X days seems easier.

[dementedpixie]

The government calculator gives it as 207 hours 12 minutes for yearly entitlement. It also says a day off would equate to 9hrs 15 minutes

[dementedpixie]

www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement/y

[LordEmsworth]

If you are working a compressed week - i.e. same number of hours as full time - then the number of hours holiday should remain the same regardless of how that equates to days. I don't understand why HR found it so complicated...

Presumably, it works out the same in the long run - i.e. a week off, of 37 hours, only requires 4 days' leave not 5 - but personally I would find it easier/expect it to be worked out in hours...

[dementedpixie]

A compressed hour day off will take up more hours than a normal day so that could be why the amount of days dropped. It would be easier to do it in hours if you work different hours on different days