Bank holidays and compressed hours

[SirChenjins]

Can someone explain this to me in really simple terms please as I'm just not getting it.

I work a 9 day fortnight and get every other Monday off. My working week is 37 hours and I calculate my leave in hours.

Most of the bank holidays fall on a Monday, which means that I am recording public holidays even though they fall on my non-working days. This has reduced the A/L part of my hours as I've had to 'take' hours from that part of my leave to use for my public holidays - even though I'm not working that day as it falls on my non-working day. I can't get my head round why I'm having to do this as I have to work additional hours through the fortnight to get the second Monday off.

Since you are a FT employee you are effectively working 'everyday'. If you were part time then your AL would be reduced in proportion. However since you are full time, you are being treated the same as other full time employees I.e. regardless of whether it's a working day for you or not, your AL (I.e. BH part) is reducing.

However in your case you would've ALREADY worked those 8 hours on the other 9 days. So now if it's a BH others are not working those hours hence losing AL.
I think you need to raise this with your HR. How will you be compensated for the 9 hours you've worked (over 9 days) when others haven't if both of you are losing the same BH count.

Maybe I’ve completely got the wrong end of the stick. But if it’s BH monday on the Monday you have off anyway - that working Monday has been taken and split across 4 other days as staying 2hrs later - then shouldn’t you simply work 2 fewer hours on those four other days?

You’re still working “bank holiday Monday”, just spread over several other days. So take those hours back.

I work 32 hours or 8 hours a day, Monday to Thursday. In a bank holiday week I am entitled to 1/5th of my working week off, the same as a full time Monday to Friday employee would get, i.e. 1 full day (1/5th of their working week).

So for every week when there is a BH, just calculate what hours you will work based on what day of the week the BH falls, if you are working more the company owes you time. If you work less you owe the company.

For example May Day week, I’m entitled to 1/5th of my working week off. 1/5 of 32 = 6.4 hours. I actually worked 3x8= 24 (Tuesday Wednesday Thursday) however I should have worked 32 - 6.4 = 25.6. Therefore I owe 1.6 hours to the company or deduct from holiday allowance.

For Good Friday company owes me 6.4 hours as I work my normal Monday to Thursday week, so I add 6.4 to my holiday allowance.

Just do this for all bank holidays and adjust annual leave accordingly at the start of each year. And do this every year as some BH days change - Xmas day, Boxing day and NYD.

@Harassedevictee I've sent you a DM

Just responded

I get all BHs on my non working days added to my leave which is expressed in hours.

For each day I don't work I get 7 hours added which js a normal working day

For days I work I am effectively getting more hours off, so they deduct 2 hours.

I work this out myself each yr to make sure it's right and if usually is now, so add 7 hours for every day I don't work on a BH, and deduct 2 hours for every working day a Bh falls on.

If it's Mondays you don't work I'd be amazed if you shouldn't get overall hours added.

Interesting issue.