We have an employee who works 3 full days and 1 half day per week. Using the online holiday entitlement calculator it says they are entitled to 137.2 hours which works out at 19 full days and almost a half day. Our business is closed 17days per year and employees are required to use annual leave to cover these day, due to this our employee only has 2½ days annual leave to use as they wish. To me this doesn't seem overly fair, should there not be the option to take business closure as unpaid leave. Would like to hear some opinions on this as unsure how to best manage this as the employee is asking questions
I see where everyone is getting confused. The business is closed more days than just 17 days but 17 business closure days falls on this employee's working days
Yes, I think that's it - the business seems to be closed for 25 days (15 for the 3 weeks, 8 public holidays, plus the two Halloween days) and 17 of them fall on the employee's working day s.
In that case, it is correct as long as there isn't any doubling up (e.g. if one of the full week's is Christmas, that also includes publics holidays, so you wouldn't deduct 3.5 days, plus the two public holidays)
