help confused about holiday hours

matty691

hello people i need sum help on my holiday hours from work
i work 39 hours a week and entitled to 257.40 hours holiday
wat im confused about is what this works out as in weeks and days i can take as my manager cant be botherd to explain any help wud be appreciated thnx

LittleVoice

257.40 hours divided by 39 hours = 6.6 weeks
If your 39 hours are spread over 5 days that equals 33 days (6.6 multiplied by 5)

However 39 hours suggests your worked days are not of equal length. How is your time actually spread over a week?

matty691

thanks for the reply so thats 6 week but its the .6 im more confused about is that 6 hours or 6 days of a full week sorry for being thick

matty691

hours over a week start from sun to sat consist of two earlys two lates two off on a normal week so this week ive had sat sun off so will work mon tues early 6.45-2.45 then wed thurs fri 2.45-10.15 then have sat off then sun mon morn 6.45-2.45 tues wed night 2.45-10.15 and be of thurs fri bit mad how it works its over 4 weekly

SarEl

Apart from the convenience of knowing that you have about 6 weeks holiday, converting it into days or weeks is just going to confuse you even more! Because as LittleVoice says - your hours suggest either that your days are of unequal length or that you have a felxible working pattern. What you need to do is establish what a "working day" is in terms of hours. Then every time you take a day off the "working day" is deducted from your hours owed. So, for example, nearly all of my clients have a 37 hour week worked flexibly - they just have to do 37 hours per week. But a working day for calculations is always 7 hours and 24 minutes. Every full day's holiday that they take is 7 hours and 24 minutes taken from their leave entitlement.

matty691

sorry i cant be more clear on how it works i find it strange to bloody co/op never had this trouble before they took over all i can say its 8 hrs a day 39 a week 156 a month but thnx for all ur help

getmore4less

.6 is .6 of a week so 23.4 hrs pay.

What you need to so is find out how the hours are allocated when you take holidays.

Oldernotwiser

matty691 wrote: »

sorry i cant be more clear on how it works i find it strange to bloody co/op never had this trouble before they took over all i can say its 8 hrs a day 39 a week 156 a month but thnx for all ur help

But 8 hours every a day would suggest 40 hours a week, not 39. That's why people are a bit confused and have asked whether you work the same number of hours ever day.

Gillyx

When I worked in retail everyone on a full time contract who weren't managers worked a 39 hour working week, that consisted of 4 x 8 hours and 1 x 7 hours (after lunch breaks) or 4 x 9 hours and 1 x 8 hours.

matty691

right soz god im thick on the two lates its 2.45 till 10.15 so half hour less on the two l8s thats why it works out at 39

SarEl

Sorry - you posted at the same time as I did so I didn't see your explanation of the shifts. But it seems pretty clear to me - some shifts are longer than others and you deduct the appropriate number of hours for whatever shifts you would have worked had you not been on holiday.