Is This Allowed ?

UnicornLove18

Thank you Guys for all your replies. I will take it for what it is and just be grateful that I still have a job to take Annual Leave from ................... Everybody stay safe and take care 

tailor39

sharpe106 said:

Not all NHS departments are busy most of the work has been cancelled. Some areas have very few cases so although everything has been cancelled there is little to do. Whereas other areas are stretched to capacity. 

Agree. I'm a NHS nurse and it is significantly less busy where I work as a lot of work has been cancelled.

I even take my 1 hour break now, previously I would work with no break.

suki1964

sliphi said:

UnicornLove18 said:

My employer is the NHS. 

They have stated that members of staff in our department MUST take 1 weeks annual leave before the end of June 2020. 

This is so when things return back to normal , there is not an excessive amount of people off at the same time. If some aspects of lockdown and social distancing is still in place until then (highly likely!) can this be enforced ? Our holiday entitlement isn't going to be used by us as it was intended and we do feel this isn’t actually fair to force us to take annual leave especially when we can’t do an awful lot anyway !!! 

Legally , can an employer FORCE you to take annual leave under the current circumstances , especially as the government advised that employees have the right to carry holiday entitlement over to 21/22 ??? 

Any advice help would be gratefully received. Thank you 

As mentioned, it is legal.

But which NHS department is this?

I find it astonishing, at this time of National Emergency, when the NHS is under greater strain than ever, and they are trying to recruit anyone they can, paid or unpaid, that have the skills to assist them through this crisis, that they are asking telling fellow employees to take leave at this critical time.

Oh, welcome to MSE, btw

Within the NHS there are numerous department that are not working 100%, out patients, health records are just two. 

Most HC trusts have closed to non urgent treatment , a hospital has thousands of back room staff that are never mentioned

Thrugelmir

Child protection has seen a huge decrease. In part due to the fact that schools are closed and that's the source of many referrals. Once lockdown is lifted there's already discussion of a huge national surge and whether there's the capacity to cope. Problems that existed before haven't gone away. Merely parked and building in number. 

sliphi

suki1964 said:

sliphi said:

UnicornLove18 said:

My employer is the NHS. 

They have stated that members of staff in our department MUST take 1 weeks annual leave before the end of June 2020. 

This is so when things return back to normal , there is not an excessive amount of people off at the same time. If some aspects of lockdown and social distancing is still in place until then (highly likely!) can this be enforced ? Our holiday entitlement isn't going to be used by us as it was intended and we do feel this isn’t actually fair to force us to take annual leave especially when we can’t do an awful lot anyway !!! 

Legally , can an employer FORCE you to take annual leave under the current circumstances , especially as the government advised that employees have the right to carry holiday entitlement over to 21/22 ??? 

Any advice help would be gratefully received. Thank you 

As mentioned, it is legal.

But which NHS department is this?

I find it astonishing, at this time of National Emergency, when the NHS is under greater strain than ever, and they are trying to recruit anyone they can, paid or unpaid, that have the skills to assist them through this crisis, that they are asking telling fellow employees to take leave at this critical time.

Oh, welcome to MSE, btw

Within the NHS there are numerous department that are not working 100%, out patients, health records are just two. 

Most HC trusts have closed to non urgent treatment , a hospital has thousands of back room staff that are never mentioned

Yes, the NHS have closed a number of non critical departments at this time.
But why do you think they have closed them?