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Furlough and annual leave

Hi,
Sorry if this question has been asked, but I'm a Software Engineer currently on my 2nd week of a planned 3 week (for now) furlough period. My company does a kind of statutory leave where the whole place shut's down. Next week is one of the weeks where it's closed for Whitsun. I'll be losing 5 of my days annual leave, are they able to do that or can I question this?

Kind Regards,
Mat

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  • bradders1983
    bradders1983 Posts: 5,684 Forumite
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    Have they given you 2 weeks notice of it? If so, yes. But they will need to pay you at full rate.

    Begs the question though...why is it an issue for you this year when it clearly sounds like its an annual occurance anyway?
  • akr0
    akr0 Posts: 5 Forumite
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    Yeah they're able to.
  • Undervalued
    Undervalued Posts: 9,865 Forumite
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    Have they given you 2 weeks notice of it? If so, yes. But they will need to pay you at full rate.

    Begs the question though...why is it an issue for you this year when it clearly sounds like its an annual occurance anyway?
    If it is an annual occurrence, which sounds almost certain, then it would be easy for them to argue that notice has already been given. 
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