Return to work after Mat Leave and increase in hours

[Aroobear]

Just after abit of advice. Returning to work after second child and will be increasing my hours from 30 hours over 4 days to 32.5 hours over 5 days. I will end my mat leave on 31st May and take AL for the whole of june therefore my first physical day back at work will be 1st July. Work sent through my new contract and they have stated the new hours will start 1st July. Just wondering if I can ask it to start 1st june. This would obviously benefit me rather than the company who would have to pay me more for my AL over June plus other benefits like pension contributions. Thanks

You could always ask, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have no idea of the law. Of course you can ask. But it feels like an absolute piss take to me and would colour my thoughts of you moving forwards if you asked me.

Would you have enough annual leave to cover the extra hours?

If you haven’t got at least 143 hours accrued and ready to take your plan won’t work.

They won’t pay you for 143 hours and deduct 135 hours of leave.

Are the AL days from the previous year? If so, no and if they’re this year I guess you could ask, but I wouldn’t.

That doesn’t make sense. You aren’t increasing your hours from that date. So why on earth would they agree to that.

I had to read your post two or three times to figure out what you’d be asking for. I’m assuming the annual leave accrued during your mat leave would have been last years annual leave, which you were contracted for fewer hours so I can’t see why they would agree to it.

They will calculate your leave by hours when you change your hours. So as others have says it entirely depends on whether you have accrued enough hours.

Lots of women do this but they negotiate differently “eg, can I come back full time in May?”
”yes- here is your contract”
signs
”hi, I’m requesting some annual leave in may”

I am not sure what the benefit to your employer would be in agreeing to your request, but they might do

@anonhop that only works if you work fulltime. if you work part time, your leave is accrued in hours, not days. so in op’s case, 30 hours a week. if she now works 32.5 hours, she either needs sn additional 2.5 hours leave to cover the week, or she can’t have a full week off!
Assuming she has about 120 hours of leave, that would cover 4 weeks at her old hours, or about 3 weeks and 3 days in her new hours.