Annual leave question

[antoroo11]

Hello,

I work in a place where my line manager makes the rota every month.

Its a job that needs people working seven days of the week, so you could be scheduled to work any day of the week,

however I have always got one day off from work every week.

This week I booked three days of annual leave off , monday, tuesday and wednesday.

I saw that my boss has now scheduled me to work Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week.

My question is, shouldnt I be still be entitled to get one day off per week, even on a week that I have booked off annual leave?

Using a different person as an example.

Say for example, a person works monday to friday, and they always have saturday and sunday off.

Say That person then books monday to wednesday, off on annual leave, they still have Saturday and sunday off, as they are their two normal days off work.

I feel like he is screwing me with this rota.

Has anyone worked shifts like me, and knows what is correct about annual leave in this instance?

I never knew that working 7 days in a row is legal in the UK, until I started this job.

Legally any employer only has to give you two days off in 14 days. So they CAN have you working for 12 days straight and then give you two days off.

If you asked for 3 days off in a 7 day working week it should look like this.

Monday - Rest Day/No Pay
Tuesday - A/L (Paid)
Wednesday A/L (Paid)
Thursday - Work
Friday -Work
Saturday - Work
Sunday - Work

People who work Monday-Friday don’t get Saturday/Sunday deducted for A/L.

Where I work, AL is done in hours and days.
So for example you work 37.5 hours per week over 4 days (and each working day is worth 9.3 hours). Then you request 3 days off (28 hours), then that should be subtracted from 37.5 hours per week and then 1 day left to work.
otherwise from what you are saying you aren’t really taking AL your working week is just shifting towards the end of the week.

Sounds as if you just need a new job!

Doesn’t even have to be 2 days. It’s 48 hours. So you could finish work at 6pm on Friday and be rota’d back from 6pm on Sunday.