Employer cancelling annual leave

General_Grant

Technically, taking unpaid leave reduces your entitlement to paid leave - because you are working less time. They probably won't bother to calculate it for one day.

System

Why not do it as a favour for them, keep it in your back pocket and then cash it in later when you want another day off?

Flugelhorn

andydownes123 wrote: »

Why not do it as a favour for them, keep it in your back pocket and then cash it in later when you want another day off?

only works if they choose to remember I think allowing unpaid leave is silly, the reason for not allowing the annual leave appears to be that others will be away - so surely they need the OP to be there to do the work, not offering unpaid leave?

Undervalued

Flugelhorn wrote: »

only works if they choose to remember I think allowing unpaid leave is silly, the reason for not allowing the annual leave appears to be that others will be away - so surely they need the OP to be there to do the work, not offering unpaid leave?

They don't actually need a reason not to allow annual leave!

It may be their fairly unusual response of allowing unpaid but not paid leave is because they have too many people wanting leave at that time? They are possibly hoping it will limit the number of people being away, whilst still allowing those who feel it is particularly important to take time off?

As said earlier, providing the OP is allowed to take their paid annual leave at some point during the year that is all the law requires.

TBagpuss

Flugelhorn wrote: »

only works if they choose to remember I think allowing unpaid leave is silly, the reason for not allowing the annual leave appears to be that others will be away - so surely they need the OP to be there to do the work, not offering unpaid leave?

I think in this instance they are saying the OP can take the day off, on an unpaid basis as they will have to hire a temp if OP isn't there. Which is pretty generous of them because I would expect that the cost of a temp for Christmas Eve may well be more than the cost of OP's wages for one day.

It sounds me as though they are trying to offer a compromise to take account of the fact that is not OPs fault that the system wasn't up to date.

Genuineguy03

Personnaly I'd take the day off unpaid, and use the paid annual leave another day.

There certainly trying to accommodate your request and make up for their initial error by allowing you a days unpaid leave. Its an extra day off, so take it if you can manage without that days wage.

getmore4less

Unless there are times when they can allow holiday without needing to pay for cover the money liability still exists just delays it.