Accrued Holidays - Impossible to take holidays

getmore4less

Ask them why their holiday policy does not comply with the law?

Are you part time on variable hours?


they could easely fix the problem by making the holiday year Dec->Nov if Dec is always a blockout month.

HammerNyne

I am part-time with variable hours. I quite agree that December to November would be far more convenient and cut out a lot of hassle and ill feeling on both sides.

Sorry how do I reply with quoted posts? New here

getmore4less

use the quote button

HammerNyne

getmore4less wrote: »

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Ah captain obvious, thanks.

I've just had a look through the company handbook and it says:

If an employee has not yet accrued entitlement and a request is
submitted, it is highly unlikely that the request will be granted as
sufficient leave will not have been accrued at the time of making the
request.

In my case this is 100% of the time, I cannot take holidays not yet accrued

karcher

In my opinion it is wrong that the company allow you to accrue extra days but you have no scope to take them, nor carry them over to the next year.

I have no idea if it is legal or not, I would hope not but the solution would be not to accrue the overtime in the first place. Otherwise you are working for nothing.

Undervalued

getmore4less wrote: »

Only allowing accrued leave is not legal(after 1st year).

Even in the first year statutory holidays accrue in advance monthly.
(can need adjustment if you take them and leave)

Many companies don't use accrual just calculate the allowance and sort it out if you leave.

However an employer dictating when the employee can take leave is legal so it more or less cancels out. OK, taken literally it gives a bit of a problem with the very last day's holiday but given that nearly everybody takes at least some holiday over the Christmas period that is splitting hairs.

Unless the OP is one of the few people who work on Christmas Day there is one day's holiday near the end of December!

getmore4less

the company can pay the holiday accrued unused for those on variable hour part time, they just allocate more hours and call them holiday.

any refusal or excuse is a clear indicator this is deliberate to not pay the full holiday pay due.