Does an employer have to honour booked holidays if you mentioned it at interview?

xapprenticex

Nice to see a newb not getting slaughtered

theoretica

It looks all good to me, but count carefully how many days you will want of holiday for Christmas, Bank holidays etc (if they are included in the 16). It is probably easier for them to give you a week of this already booked holiday as unpaid, than if you ask later for some unpaid days off around Christmas.

getmore4less

fernbascombe98 wrote: »

Hello,


I've recently been offered a new job & accepted starting 11th July.


In my interview I was asked if I had any upcoming holidays in which I replied 2 weeks in Aug and 1 week in Sept


I have accepted the offer of the job, and before hand I sent this email and I've pasted the response too:


Me: I do have one question I would just like to clarify before handing my notice in.


In the interview, I was asked about any upcoming holidays which I replied to that I have a 2 week holiday booked in Aug and 1 week in Sept.


Really, I just wanted to double check this would be ok as I realised that I will be only with **** for 3 weeks before the holiday. The dates are 31st July to 14th Aug as if it were to be a problem I am happy to start after my holiday in Aug.


If you could just confirm if this would be an issue or not that would be great.


Then here is the reply


Hi Fern

I have spoken with *** and he advised that his preference would be for you to start on the agreed date.

He has advised that on starting you will be entitled to 16 days paid leave in the 2017/18 cycle if we retain the agreed start date (our annual leave period is from 1st March to the 28th February). If your booked holidays exceed this then some days may have to be taken unpaid which we are happy to accommodate.


Am I just overthinking all of this or am I correct??


It just seems so unlikely a company is going to let me take all that annual leave 3 weeks into a new job please someone offer me advise who works in the field as I'm not sure if I can even refuse the job now due to signing the contract and may not be able to retract handing my notice in, I'm really worried as this is thousands of pound of financial loss if they turn around and say no to the holidays...help?

Your basic question has been answered BUT.

That holiday allowance looks wrong.(went red as bold not clear in blue)

What is the full annual holiday allowance? (don't forget BH)

with 11 July start date you will work 33 weeks of the holiday year

28*33/52 = 17.77

There are various adjustments that can be made and still be legal so it will depend on how they want to calculate the allowance and allocate the days and the base allowance, but the basic calc would on the surface appear to be nearly 2 days out.

They may have just taken the 3 weeks holiday off and work on 30 weeks that would be 16.16.

traveladdict98

Hi, its 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

traveladdict98

No, in the interview I simply stated I had 2 weeks in Aug and one week in Sept. They even asked me where I was going on holiday but I didn't tell them the specific dates