Leaving a company when owed holiday.

Caitlin_Bree

Supposing you want to leave a company while you have paid holiday owed to you. But the company won't allow you the paid time off before you resign.. what happens?

Are they obligated to pay you for the holiday that they are denying you? Or is it just written off?

jm2926

They have to pay you

MissSarah1972

Caitlin_Bree wrote: »

Supposing you want to leave a company while you have paid holiday owed to you. But the company won't allow you the paid time off before you resign.. what happens?

Are they obligated to pay you for the holiday that they are denying you? Or is it just written off?

Any holiday due that is not taken is paid in full when you leave.

falko89

It should be paid but in my last firm you never got it. I knew of a guy who handed in his weeks notice before the summer holidays last year, we had set summer holidays as the place shut for 2 weeks, but he never got his holiday pay, a similar thing happened to me in another company some years back.

HappyMJ

falko89 wrote: »

It should be paid but in my last firm you never got it. I knew of a guy who handed in his weeks notice before the summer holidays last year, we had set summer holidays as the place shut for 2 weeks, but he never got his holiday pay, a similar thing happened to me in another company some years back.

If they do not pay you can claim it from them. If they refuse to pay then submit a claim for it. It may involve taking them to county court to get a CCJ. They'll soon pay up if the court agrees they owe you money.

Caitlin_Bree

Thanks for your quick responses.
I should add that they haven't actually done this yet, I'm just expecting them to be difficult since they've started being silly about other things.

an9i77

I'd imagine you can also make an unlawful deduction of wages claim via a tribunal

lilymay1

I'm glad someone asked this - I have a feeling my husband will face a similar problem when he leaves his current employer

Savvy_Sue

Always worth putting in your letter of resignation how much leave you think you're owed, and how you'd like to have it - either as leave in your notice period or as pay afterwards.

It at least flags up to your employer that you know it's due, and lets them disagree if they think you're wrong.

Nothanks

I thought for a moment this was that blinking troll nutter with his 'all your holiday at once gains you a day a year therefore a payrise' scheme. Phew.

Agree with above, hit it head on by putting in your notice letter a question about how the x weeks you're owed will be paid.

patman99

Dunno about 'all your holiday at once.....', but do know if I take-off a Friday as a holiday day I get 6 hours paid instead of the 5 Hrs 20 mins I'd get for working-it.
Had a month off (use-it or lose-it, so I took it all before it expired). Earned £40 more than if I'd worked the month.