Holiday Entitlement

Oakley2702

I started a new job in January and was told I received 20 days holiday. Working hours are 40 per week with Friday being 5 hours and for holiday purposes I was told that Friday's therefore counted as a half day.

The manager has since changed the system to hours, without telling anyone - resulting in me (and the bulk of the office) losing out on 2 days of holiday, mainly because a full week off would have been 4.5 days.

Is he allowed to do that?

Comms69

You're legal entitlement is to 5.6 weeks holiday, so that's 224 hours - as long as you get that, the rest is optional

Exodi

I'm confused,

You're entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday a year; if a working week is 40 hours then that's 224 hours holiday a year. Odten several of these days are retained for bank holidays and christmas.

If he's offering the statutory holiday entitlement then there is no issue.

Exodi

Also, I can see why he'd use hours. Counting friday as a half day (when it's probably closer to 2/3rds) is pretty unfair on him and would lead to everyone taking every friday off.

Edit: upon further thought, it would seem this is where the extra two days you're 'losing' come from.

Oakley2702

Exodi wrote: »

I'm confused,

You're entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday a year; if a working week is 40 hours then that's 224 hours holiday a year. Odten several of these days are retained for bank holidays and christmas.

If he's offering the statutory holiday entitlement then there is no issue.

We get 160 hours plus the bank holidays.

74jax

So you get the correct amount - presuming your days are 8hrs?

8 bank Holidays =64hrs

General_Grant

74jax wrote: »

So you get the correct amount - presuming your days are 8hrs?

8 bank Holidays =64hrs

And Good Friday would be 5 hours, not 8.
Also depends whether any of Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year fall on a Friday.