Annual leave for days of different lengths (short Fridays) but full time hours

McAnniee

This is about a previous job so isn't an "ongoing" issue, more something I was curious about.

We had a "short Fridays" arrangement - my contractual hours were something like 8-5 Monday to Thursday and 8-1.30 Friday. This was an office wide contractual arrangement and not a particular "flexible working" pattern for me or an individual agreement.

For annual leave it was measured in days. M-Th days were taken as one day, Fridays were still taken as one day even though it was a lesser amount of hours, more like half a day. A whole week off would be 5 days holiday, but taking M-Th and working Friday would use 4 days holiday.

I know in these cases the more "usual" way to handle is annual leave in hours and deduct the amount of hours that would have been worked on that particular day. But is the arrangement above legit?

unforeseen

I don't see why not. Leave in the forces is always days regardless of hours worked each day

paddedjohn

You were entitled to 5.6 short days and 22.4 long days, easier to keep tabs by working it out in total hours.

ohreally

McAnniee wrote: »

But is the arrangement above legit?

Yes.......

JJG

I work shifts of varying lengths between 7 and 9 hours. Each day counts as one day's annual leave.

SandC

I used to work similar hours, 12.30 finish on Friday but a longer working day Mon to Thursday. We negotiated I think it was 3 occasions per year where you could take a Friday off and only use 1/2 a days leave for it. That was purely down to management being accommodating. Your firm was perfectly legit though.

tea_lover

I worked similar hours for years (oh how I miss those Friday afternoons!) We always had to book a full day's leave for a Friday. It was irritating, but then being able to finish early all year round definitely took the sting out of it .

Tallyboom

I just never book a Friday off unless it is part of a week off.

Far too tight with my annual leave!

RichardD1970

That's how it is at our place.

There is also a shift pattern where you can be working 12hrs Sat and 12hrs Sun then the next week off. We have mainly set shutdowns and if the shut down falls on that shift then it counts as a full weeks holiday.

I assume it's all legit as we are heavily unionised (probably 95% of around 20,000 shop-floor workers).

sangie595

RichardD1970 wrote: »

we are heavily unionised (probably 95% of around 20,000 shop-floor workers).

Congratulations. Nicely done.

RichardD1970

sangie595 wrote: »

Congratulations. Nicely done.

Motor industry so historically very strong union membership. :beer: