Annual leave entitlement

[confusedotcom]

Hi.
Please could you advise me on the following. I started work at the NHS on the 7/7/2014 on a 24 hour contract. A full time contract is 37.5 hours with 27 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays. I was informed that my annual entitlement to 31 March was 95.5 hours plus 19.5 for the bank holidays (average working day is 4.8 hours. They calculated this based on a 5 day week. Booking a week off is straight forward but gets complicated when I requested singular days. The rota is made available 2-3 weeks in advance which means that when I have requested 1 or 2 days I have seen them ammend that week to 3 working days and deducted 8 hours for each day. Therefore for 2 separate requests of 2 days off (totalling 4 days) they have deducted 32 hours which is more than a working week. They also did this for not working on Boxing day. By the end of March I will have had 20 days holiday for the 119 hours they calculated. Hope all this makes sense. Many thanks for reading.

[vanman]

Re: Annual leave entitlement

Calculate holiday entitlement

The statutory entitlement is 42 hours and 20 minutes holiday.

The employer:

• can include bank and public holidays as part of the statutory entitlement
• must not round down the holiday entitlement, but may round it up
• must provide holiday pay during the statutory leave
• can provide more paid holiday - this will be in the employment contract and is called ‘contractual leave entitlement’

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Is the holiday entitlement based on:	hours worked per week	Change answer to "Is the holiday entitlement based on:"
Do you want to work out holiday:	for someone starting part way through a leave year	Change answer to "Do you want to work out holiday:"
What was the employment start date?	7 December 2014	Change answer to "What was the employment start date?"
When does the leave year start?	1 April 2014	Change answer to "When does the leave year start?"
Number of hours worked per week?	24	Change

https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement/y/hours-worked-per-week/starting/2014-12-07/2014-04-01/24

days per week
The statutory holiday entitlement is 11.1 days holiday.

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Is the holiday entitlement based on:	days worked per week	Change answer to "Is the holiday entitlement based on:"
Do you want to work out holiday:	for someone starting part way through a leave year	Change answer to "Do you want to work out holiday:"
What was the employment start date?	7 November 2014	Change answer to "What was the employment start date?"
When does the leave year start?	1 April 2014	Change answer to "When does the leave year start?"
Number of days worked per week?	5	Change

[confusedotcom]

Re: Annual leave entitlement

Calculate holiday entitlement

The statutory entitlement is 42 hours and 20 minutes holiday.

The employer:

• can include bank and public holidays as part of the statutory entitlement
• must not round down the holiday entitlement, but may round it up
• must provide holiday pay during the statutory leave
• can provide more paid holiday - this will be in the employment contract and is called ‘contractual leave entitlement’

Previous answers

Start again

Is the holiday entitlement based on:	hours worked per week	Change answer to "Is the holiday entitlement based on:"
Do you want to work out holiday:	for someone starting part way through a leave year	Change answer to "Do you want to work out holiday:"
What was the employment start date?	7 December 2014	Change answer to "What was the employment start date?"
When does the leave year start?	1 April 2014	Change answer to "When does the leave year start?"
Number of hours worked per week?	24	Change

https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement/y/hours-worked-per-week/starting/2014-12-07/2014-04-01/24

days per week
The statutory holiday entitlement is 11.1 days holiday.

Previous answers

Start again

Is the holiday entitlement based on:	days worked per week	Change answer to "Is the holiday entitlement based on:"
Do you want to work out holiday	for someone starting part way through a leave year	Change answer to "Do you want to work out holiday:"
What was the employment start date?	7 November 2014	Change answer to "What was the employment start date?"
When does the leave year start?	1 April 2014	Change answer to "When does the leave year start?"
Number of days worked per week?	5	Change

Many thanks for your examples above. So far since starting work in 2014 with the NHS I have worked nine 5 day weeks, thirteen 4 day weeks and eight day weeks. Requesting a weeks holiday has been based on a 3 day week but when I request a day off they have deducted 8 hours and I have still worked 4 days that week. The holiday entitlement is 27 days plus 8 bank holidays for a full time contract. For 1 April to 31 March 2015 the following applies,

Less than 5 years =27 days = 5.4 wks x contract hours = hours annual leave in year


Full time = 5.4 wks x 37.5 = 202 hours plus 60 for B/H (7.5 x 8)


Part time = 5.4 wks x 24 = 130 hours plus 38.5 for B/H(4.8 x 8)


24 hours ÷ 5 = 4.8 therefore 130 = 27 days
24 hours ÷ 4 = 6 therefore 130 = 21.6 days (27÷5×4 = 21.6 days)
24 hours ÷ 3 = 8 therefore 130 = 16.25 days (27÷5×3= 16.2 days)


Can you tell me how to work out the number of days I am entitled to bearing in mind the above so far. From what I can see when I work a different number of days each week my employer is to some extent dictating my days off. They also take 8 hours off for not working a bank holiday and still worked 4 days the Christmas week. I am concerned that they will not roster me to work a bank holiday and take 8 × 8 hours = 64 off my annual leave which may leave me even less choice. I have no say in which days are my rest days so find it hard to make any appointments etc and have been told that I would need to request a days annual leave. Seems to be an unfair system to me.