Bank holiday entitlement?

[MsBubbles85]

Hi all,

I'm thinking of requesting compressed hours at my work, it would be 36 hours in 4 days Monday to Thursday instead of 36 hours 5 days week. How many bank holidays would I get? Or should I request them all as holiday? Thank you!

You should get ⅘ of the holidays (including bank holidays) pro rata so ⅘ of whatever full time staff get. The problem with working Monday is that most bank holidays fall on that day so quite lot of your holidays would be taken up with bank holiday hours.

Dementedpixie - not necessarily. If OP is working full time hours their holiday allocation shouldn't change. The fact it's over 4 days should be irrelevant, surely?

No, your holiday entitlement doesn't reduce if you compress your hours, you are still working full time hours so you get full time holiday entitlement but in hours rather than days.

Bank holidays would be converted into hours and added to your annual leave entitlement. But you'd have to book a full day for your bank holiday, which would use up more hours than a standard day, so you do lose out.

Agree. Converted into hours instead. Your entitlement wouldn’t change.

It would with us as we work in days rather than hours. I wouldn’t work Mondays OP if you’re going to have a day off. Because I don’t work Mondays I get a much higher allowance than if I did. I only work three days and get 23 days holiday.

So if other full time staff get 28 days then OP would be entitled to 22.4 days (⅘ of full time) but her day would be 9 hours long instead of the standard day of 7ish hours 22.4 days x 9 hours = 201.6 hours

If converted into hours then 5.6 weeks worth of holidays would be 5.6 weeks x 36 hours = 201.6 hours

It is still ⅘ of full time staff hours/days but the day is longer so uses more hours.

Thank you all!

Not 4/5s of the bank holidays as it’s the same working hours of the week, but working an extra quarter of a day for 4 days to allow for the 5th day off

This would mean that on a bank holiday they would be credited for a standard day instead of their extended day

eg 36 hours over a 5 day week is 7.2 hours / 7 hours 12 minutes
Then over a 4 day week they work 9 hours a day to cover the missing 5th day

On a bank holiday (or a days leave) they get credited for a 7.2 hour day, and need to cover the remaining 28.8 hours in their remaining 3 days - 9.6 hours / 9 hours 36 minutes a day

Once the working hours have been changed this way it’s much easier to convert the leave and bank holidays into hours as well, in which case the employee can take the required hours

(If the work/life balance and type of role allows then flexi time can also be used to put in a little extra time when suitable to balance off the mismatch between standard day and compressed day)