Telling future employer about needing time off?

Sambucus_Nigra

InsideInsurance wrote: »

If you have accepted the offer before telling them they have no obligation to honour it. If you tell them before accepting then you are doing what I said.

UPON GETTING THE OFFER.

Not after accepting the offer.

HTH.

getmore4less

I guess SarEl can clarify exactly what you need to do.

But the basic situation is relatively simple

If you require specific days off at any point after starting.

You make it a condition of accepting any offer that you will not be working those days.

Remember holiday can be allowed or not with notice so these days are not holidays they need to be days you will not be working in the contract and need to override all other contractual clauses.

You are prepared to use holiday and be paid for them as holiday if the employers wants to do that BUT you don't want the emplyer to be able to fall back on normal contractual and holiday law to stop you having them.


What you probably do is say thanks for the offer, by the way I have X on dd.m.yy so will need that day off, is that going to be a problem?

You hope they say no problem and keep to their word.

hcb42

yup do it when you get the offer.

dont do what I did recently and mention my 2 week holiday three weeks after I started lol....and four months after first interview ! (was approved ok though, and I had not been asked before that point!)

Red_Elle

I just had a candidate's job offer recinded because they neglected to mention at interview that they had a week's holiday booked. Prior to that I had another client almost do the same. For one day however, most companies will not be bothered.
I agree with whoever said mentioning it at the first interview is a little presumptuous and usually recommend mentioning it at second interview if you have one. If not, at offer stage, as Sambucus Nigra says.