A contract that is too long can destroy eligibility; one that is too short can reduce leave pay. Either way, the part-time employee carries the disadvantage.
If contracted hours are higher than reality, the calculated attendance rate can fall so low that the employee receives no new leave. If contracted hours are too low, the percentage rises but the value of a paid-leave day falls.
At an extreme, an eight-hour daily contract with 6 hours 24 minutes actually worked produces exactly 80 percent and an eight-hour leave value. One minute less could cross the threshold. A four-hour contract with eight hours worked might produce 200 percent, but the company does not grant twice as much leave.
Our calculation used contracted hours as the required baseline, then included real work outside the contracted days or times in qualifying hours. The required total changed correctly with the calendar, and the actual total included early work, overtime, late arrival, and early departure.
Once those two totals existed, the division was straightforward. The result followed working reality closely enough that complaints almost disappeared—apart from misunderstandings about the recorded facts.
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