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Thread ID: 126092	2012-08-06 06:17:00	Leave	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1293298	2012-08-06 06:17:00	Took 4 days leave. Apparently I lose 5 days off my annual entitlement for that. They calculate it on 8 hrs, 5 days. Never mind my regular shift is 8am to 7:30pm weds to fri and 8:30am to 5:30pm Sat. Always. Every week. Sucks.	pctek (84)
1293299	2012-08-06 06:20:00	Your entitlement by law, min allowed is 4 weeks or 8% whatever is the larger amount	plod (107)
1293300	2012-08-06 06:26:00	That's normal but it's a lot more relevant when you don't work a 'normal' 5 days/8 hours roster if your employer shows your leave balance as hours rather than days.	Tukapa (62)
1293301	2012-08-06 06:28:00	So you do 40 hours in 4 days and they give you leave based on 8 hour days? Kinda odd but I can sort of see how that works, I think the leave entitlement law is based on 8 hour days.	dugimodo (138)
1293302	2012-08-06 06:33:00	For all purposes if your hours don't change their should be paying you day for day, being a 4 day week gives you 16 days leave. So as long as their give you 20 days leave it all works out	plod (107)
1293303	2012-08-06 07:49:00	It is probably just a glitch in the way the payroll software displays it. Leave is calculated in hours, but in an attempt to be friendly, is displayed as days based on an 8 hour working day.	Greven (91)
1293304	2012-08-06 08:24:00	So you do 40 hours in 4 days and they give you leave based on 8 hour days? Kinda odd but I can sort of see how that works, I think the leave entitlement law is based on 8 hour days. No I do 43 and get paid for 40.	pctek (84)
1293305	2012-08-06 08:28:00	It is probably just a glitch. Glitch. Huh. "In payroll you are 40 hours per week 5 shifts of 8 hours. Your leave entitlement is based on this ie 20 days per year. This means that for last week even though you took 4 days leave I have deducted 5 days leave"	pctek (84)
1293306	2012-08-06 08:33:00	Took 4 days leave. Apparently I lose 5 days off my annual entitlement for that. They calculate it on 8 hrs, 5 days. Never mind my regular shift is 8am to 7:30pm weds to fri and 8:30am to 5:30pm Sat. Always. Every week. Sucks. Annual leave is specified in weeks, not hours or days, only the pay varies according to the number of hours or days you work. Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment: All employees are entitled to at least four weeks’ paid holidays a year. Employees get their annual holiday entitlements on their first and subsequent anniversaries after starting work. Some agreements may provide for one or more “additional” weeks of holidays on top of the statutory entitlement. Annual holidays can be taken at any time agreed between the employer and the employee. Employees must be given the opportunity to take at least two of the four weeks’ holidays continuously, if they wish to do so. A week is seven days and regardless of what hours a day you work, or how many days, you get Weeks of Holiday. I suggest that you either talk to the MoBIE for clarification, or print out the relevant section of the Act and give it to your employer. If they are doing as you say, they are almost certainly breaching the law, and you cannot contract out via an employment contract, though there is a little bit of mutual agreement 'wriggle room'. If I have misunderstood your post, or you are an independent contractor (self employed) please excuse me, but it sounds to me like you are getting rorted. 40 hours in 4 days makes no difference. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1293307	2012-08-06 08:45:00	Tell them "Based on this 4 days absent = 5 days subtracted, a total of one day each week this employee's work will be unusable. This is for policy continuity reasons. In a spirit of fair play, the void periods will be scattered randomly through the week. By reading this memo you are deemed to have agreed to the policy."	R2x1 (4628)
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