16 days contracted annual leave converted to hours

SamSW

Hi, I've recently had my contracted 16 days annual leave converted to hours as I work only 5 hours (full day 8.25hrs) on one day and was previously asked to take this as a full days leave. Our HR agency team have converted my 16 days into hours using the calculation below:

29.75hrs (weekly hrs) / 4 (numbers of days in work) = 7.44hrs

16 days x 7.44hrs = 119hrs annual leave

My working hours:

Tuesday-Thursday 8.25hrs
Friday 5hrs

My argument is when I had 16 days of annual leave I could have chosen to take 16 x 8.25 (full days) totalling 132hrs off instead of the 119hrs being offered now. Any help would be appreciated... It just seems whichever way I take my annual leave (days or hrs) I'm penalised over full-time staff.

JGB1955

Why do you only get 16 days annual leave?  The minimum entitlement is 5.6 weeks which, for you, works out at 166.6  hours  (see Calculate holiday entitlement - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)).   If you take a Friday off, you've used 5 of those hours, if you take a Tuesday to Thursday off, you've used 8.25 hours.

Presumably, you wouldn't want 8.25 hours to be used up to take a Friday off?  Calculating it hourly is the only fair way. 

SamSW

Thanks for the reply... So I receive bank holiday and a week off over the festive period during shut down so in total I issued more than the minimum 166.6 hrs. So as you've stated I will take 5hrs for a Friday and 8.25 for a full day but my issue is this is taken off of a total of 119hrs instead of the potential 132hrs I had when my annual leave was supplied in days. Hope this makes sense.

JGB1955

HR are correct.  If you choose to take all of your annual leave as Fridays, you will get 23.8 days off.  If they're all taken on Tue/Wed/Thurs, you'll have only 14.4 days.  The average is (roughly) the 16 days.  If you take a week off, you'll use the 29.75 hours.

SamSW

Really appreciate the info and explained that way it makes a lot more sense. Cheers

TELLIT01

You were actually getting more leave than your actual entitlement under the old scheme.  HR have finally realised and have corrected things.  Bummer for the OP, but correct.

General_Grant

TELLIT01 said:

You were actually getting more leave than your actual entitlement under the old scheme.  HR have finally realised and have corrected things.  Bummer for the OP, but correct.

Yes.  I worked for an organisation where two of the admin staff worked different hours on different days.  I noticed how they were taking holidays on their longer work days.
They were both upset when we corrected their holiday entitlement to be in hours and deducted appropriate hours for the days taken.