annual leave

[wongpongrog]

hAve just been informed by the dim that as from April this year all leave to be done on hours not days and weeks

[TrueBlueTerrier]

hAve just been informed by the dim that as from April this year all leave to be done on hours not days and weeks

Its officially been that way since 2012 https://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communi ... 15&t=46336" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Annual leave

There is no material change to the amount of leave which employees are entitled to. Annual leave will continue to be allocated to employees based on the hours they work and their contractual entitlements in terms of leave. However the PSP will record and process annual leave in hours instead of days, meaning that leave entitlements will be reduced by the actual hours and minutes taken – not days as is current practice. This means that leave can now be taken in hours if a full day is not required.

For example an employee contracted to work on a Tuesday for 6 hours will have 6 hours deducted from their leave entitlement rather than 1 day, alternatively an employee contracted to work 9 hrs will have 9 hours deducted rather than 1 day.

The leave year will continue to run from April to March. Leave entitlements will be rounded up to the nearest half day and will then be converted into hours. When leave is taken, it will be reduced by hours and minutes with no rounding, except by the conversion to decimals. This is the only change to annual leave. Leave entitlements and the principles of how this is allocated will not be changing whatsoever.

Where someone starts or leaves part way through the year their leave entitlement will be pro-rated by dividing their contractual entitlement by (the total number of days in the holiday year divided by those remaining).

Leave reserves will continue to have their annual leave allocated in days converted to standard 8 hour days. Therefore a day is a standard day for leave, absence, pay deductions etc.

Communications, training and support will be provided to Bookroom staff on how to manage this transition from annual leave in days to hours. This will be rolled out as part of the PSP roll out so not all regions will change at the same time.

The amount of days left at the end of the entitlement year for an employee will be carried over automatically in the system. Negative leave balances created due to transition to the new system will be waived.
Where an individual wishes to take a days leave but has a shortfall in remaining hours to do so they will be allowed, in agreement with their manager, to draw the shortfall in hours down from next years leave allocation with that leave allocation being adjusted accordingly.

The annual leave purchase scheme remains unaffected by this change over to PSP.

[aiden01]

hAve just been informed by the dim that as from April this year all leave to be done on hours not days and weeks

We have only changed to hours from april this year aswell.

[crimson king]

Discovered this today too when using up some left over days. Got the week I want but I have no idea what's going on.

I have an annual card with numbers all over it that looks more like a bingo card. Really confusing.

The only thing that's really clear to me is the amount of hours I have left. It's X amount and three quarters of an hour.

Three quarters of a f***ing hour? How do I take that then? Hey DOM, I'll be finishing three quarters of an hour earlier on Saturday, all right?

Why did they change this? Why do they take a complicated process and make it even more complicated?

I'm sure it's just to piss us off.