...... seems like the gaffers are shafting you ops ladies and gentlemen on the leave issue. Mathematically:
* 12 hr shifts = 42 hr weeks
* office workers hours range from about 37.5 to 40 per week in UK, Taken over 52 weeks you can work out how many more hrs the ops people put in.
* it may appear that 12 hr ops people get more time off than office worker colleagues, but if you think about it for a mo, if the ops people work more hours ( than office people ), then they MUST get less time off work.
* the office people get to see mum and kids every night and every weekend. pros and cons here of course as 12 hr people can get long periods off - but it has been earned by concentrated periods of long work hours.
* if bank holidays are not credited to the 12 hr ops people, whether rostered on or off duty, ( read the last 6 words again - they are important to the argument ) - then those office workers - who are already working less hrs per annum than the 12 hr ops people - will also get an extra 10 days public holiday ( taking UK as example ) in comparison to their ops colleagues.
* To make an ops officer take 1.5 days holiday per vacation day off ( due length of working day ) is scandalous but seems to be common practice.
* perhaps you need that Union you were talking about some month ago?