Part time A/L hours carry over, mistake just found.

GibbsRule_No3.

Last week while on holiday I received an email about a mistake being found in how carry over A/L had been implemented into this years A/L. Got back to work yesterday and found out what had happened. Seems all Part Timers that had carried over leave from 2024 had, had that carry over duplicated and this had only come to light with an upgrade to their system. They have taken that extra leave back. Happy with that, as most people are, but with only a month to go to Christmas many people have now found they cannot take Christmas leave. Would it be unreasonable to ask for the mistake to be carried over to 2026 leave, when we could know and plan accordingly? This has not been offered, just told we are taking it back this year. The only way it affects me is that I now won’t have any carry over for 2026 but at least one person I know now has a -4 hours, so will have to work part of a day over Christmas.  We are not a small organisation and employ a lot of part timers who all do various hours. It has never been easy to work out if the hours given each year are correct for part timers, unlike full time who get so many days and Bank Holidays. Part Timers get BHs in hours and then have to take off those hours from our A/L hours, if they should be working a BH. EG: I work Thursday so would need 8 hours for Christmas Day this year.

flaneurs_lobster

GibbsRule_No3. said:

 Would it be unreasonable to ask for the mistake to be carried over to 2026 leave, when we could know and plan accordingly? This has not been offered, just told we are taking it back this year. 

Sounds entirely reasonable to me and is exactly the sort of argument that your trade union representative should be addressing to management on your and your colleagues' behalf collectively.