4 days a week compressed and holidays

[Nojumpingorrunning]

this is probably going to sound very thick but struggling to get my head around some details of this. So please be kind, I am very tired 😊

If you work compressed hours to do FT in 4 days, if you wanted to take another day off in the week (for example annual leave Thursday and your normal ‘compressed’ day off on Friday) do you book both as annual leave? Because you haven’t worked FT hours already that week? Or just the Thursday?

Most places do annual leave in hours I think- so you would book just the Thursday off but it would take 10 hours of your annual leave allowance (or whatever your working hours should have been that day).

If dealing in days I'd probably book 1 day off and then further compress 30 hours (4 usual working days) into 3 days... but most companies I've worked for do annual leave in hours for any part time / flexible working employees to prevent this issue (so you'd book off 9 hours for example).

Counting leave in days only really works where you work the same hours every day over a week. As soon as you're on compressed hours or just 3* 7hr days days it's a PITA to apportion. IME as both a part time worker and former manager for people on compressed time you're best off working it out in hours.

36 hours week over 4 days means a working day is worth 9 hours; 28 days leave comes out as 252 hours. So if you take Thursday off you deduct 9 hours leave but ignore Friday.

BAnk Holidays are another complication as most, except Good Friday and Xmas/NY, fall on a Monday which, for me, is a non working day.

Thanks everyone this is really helpful and makes sense!