change to holiday period - any change to entitlement?

[Marzipan23]

company email went out on Friday explaining that holiday period would no longer run 1st Jan to 31st December but instead run 31st March to first of April. the change takes place from 1st July.
I'm struggling to see if I will actually be losing a little bit of entitment from the change because we have an extended window to use it or if it evens itself out. I'm sure it will all be above board but I just cant seem to do the maths, could someone help please?

We need a little more detail. What is your annual leave allowance? are BH included or extra as per your contract? What is the carry over?

Watching with interest as I'm thinking of introducing this exact same change to my organisation!

I don't know if I'm reading it wrong but that still seems the same to me - as in your entitlement runs over a 12 month period? My company does this too and I know it's quite common to run annual leave over the financial year rather than the calendar year. Also it wouldn't have any impact on bank holidays as they're all still included within that 12 month period. That's my understanding anyway!

Well there's an odd 3 months where you'll need days for?

What have they said?

They should give you an extra 25% days to take you to the end of the extended period.

So you will get the rest of this years entitlement plus accrued days jan-March . Then in April it will start again.

You shouldn't be better or worse off.

So 15 months holiday year the first year

25 days holiday is 6.2 days per 1/4

So March to following July would be 25 days plus 6.2 days.

They may calculate this in hours instead

25x7 plus 6.1 x 7 hours worked

I will get harder for them if anyone is part time.

As bank holidays need to be added and then pro rated and the number in one April to March period may vary depending on how Easter falls.

For normal Monday to Friday workers whose holiday ignores bsck holidays it shouldn't matter.

thanks for help so far
holiday allowance is 25 days plus bank holidays
12 month running period with the timing switching from a traditional annual year to tax year

25 days plus BH means for the extra 3 months you should get an extra 6.25 days added on for Jan-March. Given Feb is a short month, maybe 6 days added wouldn't be unreasonable.

What have they said about the holiday allowance for the extended 15 month period? If they aren't giving any 'extra' leave that is a problem, but presumably you are?

@Marzipan23 as it is plus BH this makes a difference.

1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024 = 25/366 x 91 = 6.22 days + NYD, GF
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 = 25 days + EM, MF, SBH, ABH, XD, BD, NYD
So 31.22 days, rounded up to 31.25 days plus BH.

Note: Easter 2025 is 18th April - 21st April

thank you that massively helps, they have said they have changed the holiday period but not mentioned holiday allocation and I did think I should see an alteration. I'll pick up tomorrow with HR