Right to Unpaid Leave - Do I need to get it expressly wrote into my contract?

Purplelady65

After the allowance for your bank holidays has been removed it doesn’t really leave you much annual leave for going on holiday to other countries so I can understand your request for additional unpaid leave. I’d make sure everything you want re annual leave is confirmed in an email. If they’re having trouble recruiting in Guernsey then employers will need to show flexibility re requests around annual leave, flexible working e.t.c. 

Jillanddy

Purplelady65 said:

After the allowance for your bank holidays has been removed it doesn’t really leave you much annual leave for going on holiday to other countries so I can understand your request for additional unpaid leave. I’d make sure everything you want re annual leave is confirmed in an email. If they’re having trouble recruiting in Guernsey then employers will need to show flexibility re requests around annual leave, flexible working e.t.c. 

Equally,  if they are having trouble recruiting they may refuse requests when made! No agreement is likely to include the right to take holiday whenever you want to. 

mcpitman

sultan123 said:

mcpitman said:

sultan123 said:

JosephBrown said:

You can try pushing, but you aren't likely to get anywhere. They have said they will commit - but from the sound of it, by means of a side letter (or e-mail), rather than your contract. 

Thanks for this. So you'd recommend I just ask for it myself to be confirmed in a side-letter/email rather than pushing for it be in the contract? Do you know if this would then have the same legal standing?

Thanks,

If it is not in contract, no legality. At the end of the day contract is legally binding.

This is complete twaddle, ignore it.

Not really, random side emails just add layers of ambiguity especially considering it depends on the way they are written.

Contracts are clean and would be primary port of reference. 

Yes really, complete twaddle.