Any HR folk around? Compressed hours - confused!!

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Hi 👋

I am looking to ask for compressed hours at work, needing to have Monday as my non-working day. I can easily manage the full time hours throughout 4 days but I am struggling to understand what happens with Bank Holidays. I have tried to take what’s going on in my confused brain and explain it below - be super grateful if anyone could clarify/correct me:

E.G - when there is a BH on a Monday, will I be able to get a day off in lieu? So, if I took the Tuesday off instead (or the Friday before) I would then ‘owe’ a couple of hours as my working days are longer than the 7.5 hours that I am entitled to for a BH? Say I work 9.25 hours on my 4 working days, I would have to work an ‘extra’ 1.75 hours on a week where I take an extra day off in lieu of a BH to ensure I reach my contracted hours?

Does anybody else do this and is it worth the day off? The reason I want the compressed hours is to be there for my DD13 on a Monday, she has autism and struggles so much with school anxiety more so every Monday and we are looking at reducing her school timetable to ‘ease’ her back in after each weekend. I just want to be available to support with this day each week to make it easier for her (and me)!

TIA x

What should happen is that your leave entitlement is worked out in hours.

Full time = 5 days x 7.5 hours = 37.5 hour week
Compressed hours = 4 days x 9.375 (9 hours 23 minutes) = 37.5 hours a week

Statutory leave is 5.6 weeks x 37.5 hours = 210 hours
Deduct BH falling on working days. As you don’t work Mondays in 2024 this is just GF and BD so 2 x 9.375 hours = 18.75 which leaves you with 191.25 hours. Each day you take a days leave you deduct 9.375.

Note: NYD, XD and BD fall on different days so in years when they fall on a Tuesday-Friday you would deduct 4 x 9.375 = 37.5.

It is much better to have Monday as a NWD as most BH fall on Mondays.

If your full time leave is more than 28 days (5.6 weeks), then just do No days x 7.5 hours to get annual leave allowance in hours.

HTH

@Sisterpita thank you so much! Really appreciate that amazingly well explained and detailed response! Exactly what I was looking for! You’re a star ⭐️ xx

Glad to be of help.

My company adds any bank holidays to my holiday allowance and I have to book them off. When I’m due to work a BH I book it off as 8.75hrs a day so in effect it’s only cost me 1.75 hrs. If its a large company they usually have a calculator to work these things out.

Works out well for me overall. I just do a short lunch up make the working day a bit shorter

Yes agree with PP - my annual leave allowance is my leave + all bank holidays, translated into hours.
Whenever I want time off (including bank holidays) I book the hours I'd work that day.

Yes, it's brilliant having Monday as your non-working day as it gives you lots of flexible leave.