Holiday

miss_edith

Just wondering if this is a fairly normal situation as its not something I've ever come across before.
A relative has started working for large national business, she is currently part time building up to full time. One of her contracted days is Saturday. She has been told that as she works Saturdays she can't book one off as holiday without taking the entire week off. So now due to a prearranged weekend away and weddings that she has been to she has used her entire holiday allowance in the 5 months she has been there and is feeling a little depressed about the situation. And to add insult to injury she is asked to work overtime during each enforced week off so will not have a full week off work at all.
I can fully understand having a limit on the number of individual days a person can take but this situation seems a little unfair. Does anyone else have to abide by these sort of rules?

elsien

If she's on holiday, why is she agreeing to the overtime?
As far as the employer knows she's gone away all week, she is under no obligation to explain her week's plans or justify why she's saying no to overtime when on annual leave.
Perhaps if she was less available on her enforced weeks, they might start to reconsider forcing her to do it.
Is she in a union, could she run it past them?

Takeaway_Addict

They can dictate whatever rules they want with the holiday. As for overtime, why is she going in when on holiday?

If she does go in can whilst on holiday can she not have it as lieu?

AP007

miss_edith wrote: »

Just wondering if this is a fairly normal situation as its not something I've ever come across before.
A relative has started working for large national business, she is currently part time building up to full time. One of her contracted days is Saturday. She has been told that as she works Saturdays she can't book one off as holiday without taking the entire week off. So now due to a prearranged weekend away and weddings that she has been to she has used her entire holiday allowance in the 5 months she has been there and is feeling a little depressed about the situation. And to add insult to injury she is asked to work overtime during each enforced week off so will not have a full week off work at all.
I can fully understand having a limit on the number of individual days a person can take but this situation seems a little unfair. Does anyone else have to abide by these sort of rules?

IF you are forced to take a holiday you can not then be forced to work over time

Get them to tell the boss they are ON HOLIDAY!!

paddedjohn

If her contracted days are say Tuesday and Saturday and she is on holiday then there is nothing wrong with asking her to work on the Thursday/Friday, if its not part of her contract then she can refuse to work.

miss_edith

Thanks for the replies. She has been doing the overtime because her manager has known that she only needed the one day off and has subtly implied that she needs ti be willing to do the overtime in order to increase her contracted hours. Obviously she's not too pleased with that but needs to increase her hours but her main issue is not being able to take a single day as holiday when necessary.

theoretica

I imagine the business needs people on Saturday and is trying to limit the number of her holidays she takes on Saturdays. Surely the sensible way to do it is if she has 5 weeks holiday say that no more than 5 days of that holiday may be Saturdays and the rest taken as she will. Perhaps she could negotiate this for next year.

For this year as she has been paid overtime and holiday pay for some weeks can she afford to ask for some days leave unpaid, explaining she does really need holidays? They would probably need to be weekdays.