Separate holiday allocations for different locations

Joe71

I work for a company that requires me to spend certain days of the week at one location and the other days of the week at another location.

If I want a day off it comes off the holiday allocated for that location. So if I were entitled to 100 hours holiday a year then I could have 50 hours off in location 1 and 50 in location 2

I can envisage a problem if I've used up entitlement in one location but then needed a week off

So I could have 50 hours holiday remaining but not be able to book a week off because I'd used all my holiday in one of the locations

Is this a reasonable rule for a company to implement? As I see it they are effectively specifying what days I can have off. Is this allowed in employment law

Tammykitty

Yes,


They can specify it however they want as long as you get the minimum holidays.


My old company give 28 days holiday (Including bank holidays), 25 of these days were fixed days

Joe71

So in theory an employer could prevent an employee from having a week off and just specify that they have say 28 Mondays in a row off

theoretica

Joe71 wrote: »

So in theory an employer could prevent an employee from having a week off and just specify that they have say 28 Mondays in a row off

Yes. Most don't, but they may.

More common would be for a company to shut down (eg a manufacturing flow) for a while and everyone to have their holiday then. Teachers don't get to choose when to take holiday either.

Joe71

I'm the only person in the company who doesn't have freedom over what days they can have off.

Is their any case for claiming I'm being treated less favourably than my colleagues?

martinsurrey

Joe71 wrote: »

I'm the only person in the company who doesn't have freedom over what days they can have off.

Is their any case for claiming I'm being treated less favourably than my colleagues?

are they doing the same job with the same conditions (so split site)?