Annual leave question

j4vier

I have a question on annual leave.

My employer, an agency, is telling me that if i take annual leave, you don't build time off while you are on that leave.

I am entitled to 25 days per year, of course pro rata.

That is 2.083 days per month.

Seems a bit strange to me as for them, i would be entitled to 25 days only if i don't take any leave.

Has anyone else heard of a similar situation?

j4vier

j4vier wrote: »

I have a question on annual leave.

My employer, an agency, is telling me that if i take annual leave, you don't build time off while you are on that leave.

I am entitled to 25 days per year, of course pro rata.

That is 2.083 days per month.

Seems a bit strange to me as for them, i would be entitled to 25 days only if i don't take any leave.

Has anyone else heard of a similar situation?

It’s hard to follow this. Did you think you were entitled to more than 25days leave by thinking the 25 days was based on your days worked minus your the days you are on leave? ie, you were due an extra 2 days on top of the 25?

Annual leave is accrued based on time worked.

White Clover

Its 8% of time worked and in your case capped at 25 days.

Mrs OBumble

Dav010 wrote: »

Annual leave is accrued based on time worked.

Permanent employees usually do accrue annual leave while they're on leave.

This is for exactly the reason outlined by the OP: if you didn't then in raking your legally required 4 weeks of leave, you would lose entitlement to 4/52 of it.

Its a bit harder for agency workers whose leave is usually calculated based on hours worked, even though the legal entitlement is in weeks if you're a full time worker. Depends on the agency though, some have you timesheet leave just like workdays.

OP its likely this is why they give you 25 days pro-rata, it means that you will get your legally required 4 weeks even give the way they calculate it.

j4vier

Dav010 wrote: »

It’s hard to follow this. Did you think you were entitled to more than 25days leave by thinking the 25 days was based on your days worked minus your the days you are on leave? ie, you were due an extra 2 days on top of the 25?

Annual leave is accrued based on time worked.

No

I thought that the 25 days annual leave per year was to be allocated to me based on the time worked + the time spent taking the entitled public holidays + the time taken off as part of the leave entitlement

At the moment, my leave entitlements increase by 8.29 hours every 2 weeks worked. 2 weeks involve 78 hours of work therefore I am entitled to 0.106 hours off for each hour worked.

I thought that if I booked off 39 hours (1 working week) that I have available as part of my leave, that at the end of that week my annual leave entitlement would have increased by 4.134 hours (0.106 x 39). The agency says no, that's not the case.

I also noticed that during the bank holiday monday at the end of october, having that day off did not impact my build up annual leave which showed as 8.29 hours for the 2 weeks around the bank holiday.

Perhaps public holidays are treated differently than entitled annual leave?