Does your employer dictate when you have to take your holidays?

Foggster

hieveryone wrote: »

Yes, because I'm in education. And people can b!tch about teacher's holidays all they like, but I'm the one that has to pay the blinkin' price hikes in summer holidays.

Then find my hotel is full of screaming, hyper kids - which I am trying to get AWAY from on holiday!!!

I work in education, but I am not a teacher. I have a 52 week contract and have 5 weeks holiday a year and yes I have to take them in holiday time.

I sympathise to a point, but I knew what I was getting myself into when I entered the job 10 years ago.

You will find that holidays during school holidays have been expensive for decades now.

hieveryone

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

But that's not just for people who work in the educaiton sector, its for every parent that has children at school. They too have to book holidays when the prices go up.

Sorry to say but we all know in education you have set holidays so you do not take the job if you don't want them set out like that.

Foggster wrote: »

I work in education, but I am not a teacher. I have a 52 week contract and have 5 weeks holiday a year and yes I have to take them in holiday time.

I sympathise to a point, but I knew what I was getting myself into when I entered the job 10 years ago.

You will find that holidays during school holidays have been expensive for decades now.

Yes, I also knew what I was getting myself into, and would never have given up my dream of being a teacher just because the holidays are more expensive in that time.

Doesn't stop me moaning about it though :rotfl: and not just for me, but for the families that struggle to take their kids away during those expensive times. I'm on an ok salary so I can take the hit, but a lot of people aren't.

On a side note, whilst our local authority marks children being taken out of school during term time as 'unauthorised', I have a head teacher who quite sensibly understands the local demographic of our school and wishes every parent who takes their child out to have a 'great time'!

getzls

Used to work for a firm who said we couldn't take them in July.
So everyone with kids of school took them in August leaving them flapping.

Was no telling them of course this would happen. Some Bosses made the rule and of course they can never be wrong.

C_Mababejive

Of course the law of the land empowers employers to tell you when to take a holiday and they can even disallow a holiday which they have previously authorized given sufficient notice.

In these troubled times,many employers are using the recession and fear to erode what was previously reasonable custom and practice.

Lincoln_Imp

hieveryone wrote: »

Yes, because I'm in education. And people can b!tch about teacher's holidays all they like, but I'm the one that has to pay the blinkin' price hikes in summer holidays.

Then find my hotel is full of screaming, hyper kids - which I am trying to get AWAY from on holiday!!!

I have the same problem except its the missus who works at a school

starrystarry

hieveryone wrote: »

Why though? It's total discrimination towards a whole sector of workers. (not to mention the poor families that also have to pay these stupid prices)

It's not discrimination, it's the law of supply and demand. Anybody that wants to book a holiday during those times is charged the same amount, so where's the discrimination?

DD265

Yes - no holiday between September-Christmas, no holiday in a week with a bank holiday, no holiday in the last two weeks of July. Only one person from each team but even then sometimes if somebody from another team is off they say no.

As you might expect, we have similar problems that have been mentioned above where everybody is trying to take their holiday in August.

I'm quite lucky in that I'm able to book my holiday well in advance (not actually going abroad anywhere!) so I've already booked virtually everything for the next year - only have 4 days left to book.

You can make requests for holiday in "no holiday" periods and if it's an important reason (like I've had trips to a veterinary hospital with a pet where I had to go as the owner, or for a graduation) then they are usually OK about it.

kara7758

F_Bear wrote: »

work for "24/7 secure firm looking after 660 residents" and we had fixed holidays upto a few years ago.

i was never happy with it, your legally entitled to your leave and i want it when i chose, who wants their summer holidays in may??



for 13+weeks a year off id happy pay double!

So would I!!!!!!

V_Chic_Chick

I do agency work nowadays, so the concept of holidays is somewhat null and void - if I don't want to work on any given day, then I don't have to.

However, the last time I worked a 'normal' job (a well known pub chain), the only restrictions were that you needed special permission to take more than 2 weeks off at once, and you could only have two days off out of xmas eve, boxing day, new years eve and new years day.

Humphrey10

Not normally. Occasionally holiday is refused if lots of other people have already booked that day off (don't want to end up with no-one in the office) but that's not common.