Bank holiday for full timer

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Can someone clarify for me. I work f/t hours which is 37.5 per week. My company operates mon-Fri (not open at weekends). Our leave year is Jan - Dec. We work out our leave in hours and pro rata for part timers.

I am compressing my hours into 4 days mon -Thurs from January. Still doing 37.5 though. My boss has told me I will only get 80% of the bank holiday hours as I now only work 4 days. Is this correct?

I wouldn't express it quite like that as you should still be getting the same number of hours holiday (public holidays and annual leave) as before, but it will equate to a different number of days, as now a standard working day for you is 9.38 not 7.5, so when a bank holiday falls on a Monday that's how much you need to deduct from your pot (unless there's an option for you to swap your non working day in bank holiday weeks). Which means you then have slightly fewer days left to take as holiday of your choice. But on good Friday or if any of the other holidays fall on a Friday you don't deduct anything from your pot as it was already a non working day...

I don't think it is correct. I work the same pattern.
I get 100% bank holiday entitlement in hours as i am full time which is 7 5hrs per each bank holiday but because each of my days are now 9.25hrs long I have to top the remaining up with annual leave.

So for each bank holiday I use 1.75hrs of annual leave.

yes wrong.

However leave including allocation depends on what day is your day off and what your contract says.

my old contract said 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays so under this you would get full bank holiday allocation.

if you get 28 days including bank hols then it might depend on the days you work…

That's not right. I only know because 2 people in my team have done this one works Tuesday- Friday long days and the other Monday- Thursday and still get exact same holidays. X

Further info. I will work 9.5hrs mon,tue, wed and 9hrs on thurs. I get 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays. For each bank holiday we get allocated 7.5 hrs and as there are 8 in the year (I think) that's 60hrs added to annual leave and hours are deducted for each bank holiday a person works.

I will work every Monday but boss says they will only give me 48 BH hours as I work 4 days not 5.

Your boss is wrong. You work ft hours so you get ft holidays and bank holidays.

The minimum requirement in the Uk is at least 5.6 working weeks, including bank holidays

For you that would be the same as any other full timer, the fact that your hours per day and days per week differ make no difference

You get 1.6 working weeks for bank holidays just like everyone else

That is exactly how it works at my work. Full timers who work Mon-Fri get 30 days leave. Full timers who work compressed hours by working full time over 4 days get 24 days. This equates to 6 weeks holiday for both sets of staff. If compressed hours staff also received 30 days annual leave they would be able to book a whole extra week of holidays than non-compressed hours staff as they would only need to book 4 days annual leave to take a week off as opposed to 5 days.

There is a separate entitlement for bank Holidays and closure days (university) which are pro-rata'd to 80% for Full time compressed hours staff to reflect the fact that they work 4 days rather than 5. Otherwise staff working Monday-Thursday would benefit more than staff working Tuesday-Friday.

If you’re working 4 days per week, you should only get 4/5ths of both the bank holidays and regular annual leave (if it’s expressed in days). Because someone who is given 5.6 weeks off at 4 days per week will still receive the correct entitlement compared to someone at 5.6 weeks on 5 days per week, even if you only get 4/5ths of the days. Because you, as a 4 day per week worker, only need to take 4 days off to get a full week of leave, whereas your colleagues working 5 days would need to take 5 days off to secure a full week off.

So if you express it in hours - 7.5 (hours worked per day) x 28 (days) = 210 hours (5 day worker). And for you, 9.375 (hours worked per day) x 22.4 (pro rata holiday days) = 210 hours. So the entitlement is the same.

If you were given 28 days x 9.375 hours, you’d end up with far more holiday than your five day per week colleagues!