Annual leave and Bank Holidays

sheramber

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82089814#Comment_82089814

As the OP works part time her bank holiday allocation is at a reduced rate of 3/5 of a day.

But a bank holiday is a full day so she needs to use some of her annual leave hours to make up the other 2/5 of the day.

zagfles

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82090449#Comment_82090449

No it's worse than that. OP works 20 hours and it appears that's 8 hours Mon & Fri and 4 hour Weds. So an "average" working day is 4 hours. So she get 4 hours "bhol leave" per bank hol. It also appears the employer mandates she takes bank hols off.

In this year's leave period which is April 26 to March 27 there are 10 bank hols, all of which happen to fall on Mondays or Fridays. That means each bank hol she has to use 8 hours, ie a day's bhol leave and a day's normal leave. Leaving her with only 12 "days" leave remaining, ie 2 weeks and a bit.

It's a bit unfortunate in the way all bank hols are on her working days when she works double the "average" day.

saajan_12

Basically you get the pro rata BHs added on to your allowance, but then when you take a BH day off (granted may be required to) then you're taking off the full day, not just the pro rata % of a day. So you use up more than 1 day's BH, and start eating into the normal holiday allowance.

Only ways to avoid this would be if

• employer allowed you to work on bank holidays (and so you keep more of your allowance for when you want it)
• change your working schedule to fewer Mondays and Fridays when most of the bank hols fall