Starting new job with holiday booked

happyandcontented

They are simply saying they want a conversation about how to treat the days off. It happened to my son. Don't worry any more about it. Congratulations on your new job.

TBagpuss

Like others, I'd read it as them flagging up that you may not be able to have all of the time as paid holiday, and some of it may have to be unpaid leave instead.

engineer_amy

I would agree with everyone above that they just want to discuss how they intend to process the unpaid leave.


When we have had similar situations with new employees, we will give them a few options of how to treat it, mainly so we don't leave them with a very low first months wage and possibly leave them struggling. If someone has a large number of unpaid days, we can sometimes split the deduction over a number of pay periods.


as someone else has mentioned, estimate your daily rate, work out how many days of unpaid leave they might take and do a few quick calcs to see if you would be able to manage on the reduced wage - or think through a couple of options/scenarios that you can suggest during your discussion

Potbellypig

OP - I don't think I've ever encountered anyone who has told a potential employer that they have a holiday booked, they offer them the job and then say they can't take the holiday. Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be fine.