Bank holidays when working 4 long days

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I’ve put in a flexible working request to do my hours over 4 days instead of 5. Work suggested I take Mondays off, but I was curious what happens with bank holidays in that case? I’m normally paid for them. So would I get paid on top of my wages, would I take extra time off, or would I work my normal full time hours Tuesday-Friday, and everyone else would work less hours that week but still get paid the same?
I don’t want to look ‘grabby’ by asking my boss until I know what’s normal

You need to get your holiday allowance in hours as you’ll need more than 1 day to cover a day if you’re doing longer hours, iyswim. And then the bank holiday allowance will be included in there. As otherwise if you’re still full time but keep your allowance in days you’ll end up with extra days off compared to someone working their full time hours over 5 days.

You'd get pro rata bank holidays added to your entitlement. You then have more choice of when to take them than if you worked a Monday and would have to use your holidays to cover them.

You'd get ⅘ of the holiday entitlement (including bank holidays) of full timers but your 'day' would consist of more hours than a standard day

So I’d be working full time hours but be entitled to less holiday?

Ah yes ok I see. My holiday is in hours anyway. I book a number of hours off. But I don’t book bank holidays I just get paid, so I wasn’t sure about this

I get a bank holiday allowance. In my case I work 0.6 and get around 5.5 BH days. As I don't work Mondays, I usually only need to take 2-3 BHs 'off' and the rest gets added to my Annual Leave.

So you should be entitled to something like 60 hours of BH leave (8x 7.5 hours). You then book off any on your work days e.g. Good Friday, Christmas/New Year and get the rest as extra Annual Leave.

You work full time so are entitled to the full AL and BH allowance converted to hours using the standard working day.

If Monday was your non working day, you don't need to use any of your allowance for BH Mondays and you still get paid for it.

If you want to take another single day off, it costs you the number of hours your working day is. So if you work 4 x 10 hour days, a single day off costs you 10 hours.

If you want to take a week off, it costs you 40 hours, the same as all the other FT workers.

No you won't get less holiday as the number of hours holidays will tally up as your days are longer e.g. if full time staff get 5.6 weeks worth holiday in a 40 hour week (8 hours per day) their holiday hours would be 224 hours = 28 days

⅘ of 28 would be 22.4 days of 10 hours = 224 hours which is the same as above

If you got 28 days leave you'd get 280 hours holiday which is more than staff working over 5 days.

She’s not part time. Why should her holiday allowance reduce?

If you see my above post her holiday allowance is not reduced as her number of hours holiday will match full timers. If she got 28 days at 10 hours she will have more holidays than staff working 5 days.

Thank you everyone
so I get my hours for AL
but bank holidays are automatically sorted on the system, I don’t ‘see’ those hours. I’ll just check then that effectively those hours will be put into my pot of AL hours and I can then allocate them as needed. That makes sense thank you all

Yes you’ll still get your entitlement but in hours. In my place, if Monday is your NWD then you don’t need to book it off as it’s not a working day. You’d have to just book off BH that fall Tues-Fri so you’d have those hours to use elsewhere as you will hours left over.

I do compressed hours over 4 days and have Fridays off. For Good Friday I got to take the day off at another time, but I was only given the equivalent of a “normal” day. So basically was given 7.5 hours to take on another day, so if I wanted to take a full day off I had to top it up with annual leave to make it up to a full day doing the hours I do (1.75 extra hours for me).