Termination of Employment and holiday entitlement

WestonDave

Trying to book it at another point might be worth a try - if it gets refused again, then it becomes obvious they're being funny about it, because it then wouldn't be about stopping you shortening your notice or be in the usual pattern of refusal, so it would then be much easier to put in a complaint saying that you've tried to be flexible but you really want to take the holiday in order to avoid getting stung for student loan contributions.

spadoosh

You can reclaim student loan overpayments. Pretty good timing as well with year end approaching you should get it back soon enough.

Most contractual terms relating to holidays will usually state something along the lines of 'within business needs'. From my point of view it wouldnt be worth arguing for the sake of £110 missing for a few months.

Id be worried the more 'trouble' i caused the more the chances of a 'mistake' being made with my pay.

getmore4less

You won't find anything in statutory law to help, this is covered by WTR

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/contents/made

The only part that could help is the notice to refuse holidays(15.4.b as much as the holiday requested).

BUT even if they failed that notice period it can be overridden by contract and a clause like "holiday must be approved" or similar means they can ignore the clause completely.

getmore4less

standard extra cost for more money would be 20% tax and 12% NI,

The tax is just the result of earning more so that can be ignored as it gets refunded if you don't hit the threshold in the year.

The NI is bit of a pain if you don't normally earn to the threshold.

Student load is debt reduction.

if the tax and NI is bothering you now wait till you get a decent paying job and 32% of the extra wage is going out all the time.

Lauraw1234

I’m not sure that comment was necessary - what might not bother you, may bother somebody else in a different financial situation. Aside from this, I’m sure anybody that is paying unnecessary extra tax would complain.

Lauraw1234

Thanks! I will take a look at this

getmore4less

You only pay extra tax if you earn more.

Not taking the 3 days extra pay is like turning down a 15% pay rise in Feb or a 13.6% rise for march.

Lauraw1234

But I’d rather take three days holidays that I’ve earned than get paid extra for two days

spadoosh

Lauraw1234 wrote: »

But I!!!8217;d rather take three days holidays that I!!!8217;ve earned than get paid extra for two days

Can you use the quote button please, its difficult to know what posts your responses are in relation to.

Why would you be given 3 days holiday but only paid 2 extra days if you didnt take them?

Its unlikely youll force them to agree. You could try showing laws or contracts but if theyve decided you wont be getting those days off and youll be getting paid for any untaken holidays then thats probably whats going to happen.

In reality what difference do those 3 days make? You can reclaim the student loan deductions, tax will work itself out too, NI would be lost but not going to be a huge amount. So is the £110, going to make a huge difference to your finances to such an extent that it warrants highlighting your grievances which could potentially compound the issue.

Its also worth remembering that an employee rarely has access to the same information as the employer/manager when making a decision. So what appears obvious to an employee (i can have time off no one else on my department is off) is less obvious to the manager (dave from finance got his paternity leave in 3 weeks, caroles just given me 4 week sick note on top off the new book keepers holidays, and to top it off lauraw1234 having handed in her notice last week now wants 3 days holiday in that week knowing full well we ask for 4 weeks notice when booking holidays.)

Lauraw1234

Apologies I’m not entirely sure where the quote button is on mobile... in that case I was replying to the post above.

In reality the days off actually are quite important - I’m upping and moving 200 miles away so could certainly use the time for a house move which when I handed my holiday notice in two weeks ago it wasn’t going to be a problem, which again is why it’s such an issue (also £100 goes quite the way in the world of renting)