Holiday Accrual Depends On How Many Hours Worked

[buffymad]

Is this right/normal/usual?

Other half working somewhere where they’ve said you have to work 40 hours before you accrue half a day’s holiday. He gets 28 days holiday including public holidays as per his contract and started in July (their holiday year is Jan to Dec).

He recently asked how many holidays he had left only to be told none at the moment because of the 40 hours per half day thing.

Sounds so confusing! Should they be working it out this way?

[fiction-factory]

>If he works 40 hour weeks from now until just before Christmas, he’d have accrued 4 days holiday. But what if he’s actually got 8 days holiday left? He’s entitled to take them before the end of the holiday year but hasn’t worked enough hours according to them

he needs to talk to HR. Under your example he must already have accrued 4 days since you are saying he would accrue 4 more giving a total of 8. But if he has already accrued 4 then HR shouldn't be saying he has not accrued any.
Maybe there is a misunderstanding betweem HR, hubby and you.

[fiction-factory]

He should go to see HR and take copies of my links with him, together with a list of dates taken this year and dates he'd like to take, and ask them to explain how they are working out his entitlement. By the end of the year he is entitled to have taken his accrued holidays based on the half day per 40 hours calculation.