Leave entitlement

[CatEnthusiast13]

Anyone else been told by their managers that we know longer get bank holiday credited back as a day of annual leave?

[Zicomurphy]

Anyone else been told by their managers that we know longer get bank holiday credited back as a day of annual leave?

No.

Both May bank holidays we had the option of getting the day back as a bank holiday credit or payment.

[yellowbelly]

Anyone else been told by their managers that we know longer get bank holiday credited back as a day of annual leave?

No, both options - lieu or overtime payment were offered.

[Smoothbackground]

the whole system is a farce. The BHs should be credited to the leave card automatically rather than the palaver we currently have. Because I have a fixed Monday rest day, I am always fighting an uphill battle to get our pugnacious PHG to do the necessary whenever a bank holiday falls, even though it is my entitlement and not some special favour he is doing! RM is so antiquated in some respects it’s unreal.

[Hitcher]

No, just yours.

[chickenwittle]

Royal Mail been getting away with this issue for years , should just be automatically added to your leave entitlement unless you requested the overtime, what happens is a lot of posties do nothing and the company banks the hours never to be seen again.

[tramssirhc]

Anyone else been told by their managers that we know longer get bank holiday credited back as a day of annual leave?

No.

[ted_e_bear]

Anyone else been told by their managers that we know longer get bank holiday credited back as a day of annual leave?

No.

Definitely No, what sort of utter knob is a manager who tries that on

[raXor]

They willfully "forget" to apply the bank holiday entitlement on a regular basis. People should always be checking to ensure that the entitlement has been credited.

For anyone who thinks they may have been screwed over in the past but is only becoming aware of the potential issue now, it might be worth asking for a copy of all sign in and sign out times and a full report showing what's been worked against what Annual Leave and BH entitlement has been applied. If no joy on a simple request, then should put in a Subject Access Request (SAR) for all data held. They have to legally respond within a month. Get what you're entitled to and make it clear that the case will end up in an Employment Tribunal if the matter isn't resolved.

Stop letting unscrupulous companies get away with things they have no right to.

[Smoothbackground]

I agree, rAXor. Been with the business almost three years. I recently discovered that over the first two years I was swindled out of 10 bank holiday credits, supposedly — and most conveniently, if I might say — because of some archaic A/L system (hiding behind the shiny SAP system/Robin/People system) which relies on a manual input from the PHG in your unit. Thankfully my managers have now resolved it without too much fuss, but it was only me noticing an odd-numbered amount of hours rolled forward from last year — 6.06 hrs rolled forward — that made me look back and calculate my leave entitlement and what I had used since starting, since leave is obvs taken in eight- or 40-hr chunks. Check carefully!

[Zicomurphy]

This is why I always take the payment option. At least you can check your wages and make sure you have been paid for it. Especially before the people app you never really knew if you had been credited the day in lieu. Also you can never use the odd days when you want to.

[Jonathan Alsatian]

I've had several managers tell me that I can't have a payment but only a days AL credit instead, basically they said payment wasn't an option. I then had to pester to get the BH credit applied to my AL record. So anyone on a new contract working 40 hours or more per week would lose out by having an extra day AL instead of an ot payment (under the now defunct 1.25 hours ot rate I mean)

[Hitcher]

This is why I always take the payment option. At least you can check your wages and make sure you have been paid for it. Especially before the people app you never really knew if you had been credited the day in lieu. Also you can never use the odd days when you want to.

Same.

[Hitcher]

I've had several managers tell me that I can't have a payment but only a days AL credit instead, basically they said payment wasn't an option.

Complete BS, I got it this week.

[Jonathan Alsatian]

I've had several managers tell me that I can't have a payment but only a days AL credit instead, basically they said payment wasn't an option.

Complete BS, I got it this week.

Looks like they've conned me to shave a few quid off their OT expenditure. Tossers.