Can an employer tell you when to take your holidays?

coachvee

ses6jwg wrote: »

You need to put yourself in their shoes.

If they are a small business, the wrong people taking the wrong holidays at the wrong time could seriously impact on their business- aka. your job.

With regard to larger companies, they need to maintain a suitable level of staffing and this is why holiday dfates will usually be allocated on a "first come, first served basis"

I understand this for most companies, but my partner used to work for a large security firm, and they used to take holiday from his holiday entitlement to cover bank holidays! To me it made no sense as he was already given the minimum annual holiday entitlement by law, so surely taking that away to cover bank holidays brings it below what he was entitled to? (Especially since he would have worked the bank holidays, but they were closed - so it's not like he had an option to work and save the holiday!)

I did look around to see whether it was allowed, and turns out that they were allowed to do that. Just seemed really strange at the time - I've been lucky enough to have jobs in the past that always gave me the bank holidays for free, unless you were required to work them.

heretolearn_2

Right now the minimum for someone working 5 days a week is 28 days, and yes, that does include the bank holidays. So really it's the same old 20days plus bank holidays. They've amended it to stop employers taking the bank holidays out of the 20 days, as they used to be able to do.

Liz3yy

Due to the nature of our business no two people from the same department are allowed to have more than one day off at the same time without permission in writing. Seems fair to me, we also arent allowed to leave all our holiday until Xmas