Long story short, I'm on a 20 hour a week contract and I get 80 hour of holiday a year. My shifts sometimes get changed because I'm basically the person they slot in where they need me however for the last six months my pattern has been pretty rigid; I do 4 hours Thursday/Friday and 6 hours Saturday/Sunday. I'm going to a music festival from the 28th to the 31st of this month (which is a Friday through to Monday) and so at the end of last month I booked some holidays.
Because my shifts have been pretty rigid naturally I only booked off the days that I would work which is the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I didn't book the Thursday because I honestly wouldn't mind working it and I didn't book the Monday because I haven't worked on a Monday in months anyway.
I just checked my shift pattern for that week and although they have given me my Friday, Saturday and Sunday off they have rearranged my shifts so that I am still doing 20 hours of work across the other four days off the week. So to clarify, I usually work four days off the week. I booked off three of these days and yet I'm still working four days of the week and the EXACT same amount of hours. How is this a holiday? How is this not just my normal work week except I'm gonna get paid more? I don't wanna get paid more I want my time off to freaking live a life outside of work. Are they allowed to turn my holiday into extra pay and not give me actual time off?