Is this holiday entitlement illegal?

getmore4less

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Well ask your employer to re-advertise your job then.

I don't like the fact my employer can say goodbye in the first 6 months with no notice payable and indeed on asking for holiday having worked somewhere for 4months and being refused, I then see my job role being re-advertised.

We don't shut down at Christmas or indeed bank holidays and with a current holiday year ending December 31st and no carry-over allowed, I'm doing well.

Statutory notice is a week after 1 month employment so they can't do that.

suki1964

We aren't allowed holiday during July and December, nor Easter week

We also tend not to take holidays around bank holidays, its not policy, just we are busy and its not fair on those holding the fort

TBagpuss

OP, it is perfectly legal. It isn't particualrly uncommon for employers to require employes to use some of their holiday entitlement for things such as a Christmas shutdown.

While many employers do offer more than the statutory minimum in terms of holiday entitlement, I don't think that those who stick to the stat. requirements are unusual or result in 'embarassingly low' numbers.

Of course if you are not happy with the package as a whole, inlcuding pay, holidays etc, you are free to look for a different job. You may find that there are fiarly simialr norms for similar jobs, however, as organisations which are competeing with one anbpother for the same type of workers may offer broadly similar packages.

t0rt0ise

Stu6781 wrote: »

As far as I look at it I get 17 days of chosen holiday days. No one I know gets below 22 days of CHOSEN days. Forget about Xmas break and bank holidays.

In the job I just retired from, all holidays were allocated. We could swap with someone else if we could find anyone who had the holiday we wanted and agreed to swap but otherwise it was hard luck.

Also apart from Christmas Day itself, all Bank Holidays were on the rota as usual. Christmas Day almost everyone was off and if it was on your rota as a work day it was taken out of your holiday.