Hr question - annual leave

[moana1234]

I am bamboozled!!! Colleague ranting today as they have 28 days holiday like the rest of us full timers but he works different hours each day - 7.5 hours mon, 8 hours tues-thurs then 5.5 hours fri - he books A LOT of fridays off so has apparently been getting them passed by using 0.75 days AL per friday instead of 1 day. However in my opinion that should mean he has to OVER compensate on his longer 8 hour days but he hasn't been - just using 1 days AL for these. But surely this means he is ending up with more holiday than the rest of us by doing this?! He disagrees of course! By the way a normal standard working day is 7.5 hours. Please can someone help explain who is correct here!

It's between him and HR really but when I worked part time I had my annual leave in hours which I think is pretty standard, so in his case he would book 5.5h for a Friday off

I don't know what kind of job you do but in every job I've had people have been able to fit work and conversations into a day and still get all the work done. I've actually noticed a lot of comments along these lines on other threads and I always wonder what kind of lives some posters must have live that they can't comprehend things not being black and white

He's correct.

From the hours you give he works 37 hours a week.
So one day is 7.4 hours.
5.5/7.4 is approximately 0.75 of a day.

Actually it's 0.743, so actually if anything he's losing a little, around 5 minutes for every Friday he takes. So if he takes 12 Fridays he's losing an hour.

If he is using that system on a Friday he needs to use it the other days as well.

He can't just pick and choose whether he's working in days or hours depending on if its in his favour or not!

He does, but he may well just work an extra half hour/35 minutes another day instead.

So if he takes the 7.5 hour day off, he needs to call it 1.01 of a day. Or work another 4 minutes another day. Unless he clock watches, then I suspect he probably does that without having to think about it.
And if he takes an 8 hour day off then that's 1.08 of a day. Or work an extra 35 minutes another day. I'd reckon that I do that in extra work most weeks without trying, and I generally aim to leave approximately on time.
I mean, today I left 20 minutes late because on the way out someone turned up to meet meet my line manager, who wasn't there and it took me 20 minutes to locate them. Last week I was 15 minutes late out twice because of a phone call that went on, and another day I wanted to finish something I'd started. But if people ask I would say I normally leave approximately on time.

But the OP's main concern seemed to be that he was taking lots of Fridays and that is what made it unfair. Ironic really that the Fridays he's short-changing himself.

But there's a very high chance that at the HR level he does just take it in hours, and used the expression as 0.75 of a day as shorthand to the OP, maybe to explain why he apparently gets an extra day for every 4 Fridays.

Let me put it another way, the OP should mind her own business.

Clear enough?

Its between him and his LM, but for irregular working patterns, holiday should be calculated in hours.

An employment contract may specify leave in days. Probably never thought of anyone working days that are so varied.

Ideally it would be booked in hours, but some systems can't cope with that. When I worked uneven days it was always booked as a day and they did some adjustment at the end of the year to make it roughly right ( I still got screwed somehow so ended up just dropping the short day I did for this and other reasons).