Get 18 consecutive days off in 2025 using just 9 days of leave – official MSE News discussion

MSE_Kelvin

Evening all,

I've written a news story about how UK workers can get 18 days in a row off using only nine days of leave this year.

If you're in full-time or part-time work in the UK, you could get 18 consecutive days off work in 2025 by taking just nine days of annual leave – or 24 consecutive days off by taking 13 days of leave. But don't hang about if you want to do it, particularly if holiday gets booked up quickly where you work.

Read the full story here: Get 18 consecutive days off in 2025 using just 9 days of leave – here's how

Have a read and let me know if you're going to try it – or if you already have (and what you're doing with your time off).

Cheers,

MSE Kelvin  

vekma

Yes because no one works weekends or bank holidays 

JCS1

Or have restrictions around dates due to the nature of the work

TELLIT01

Nobody would have been allowed to do that anywhere I've ever worked.  Holiday around Bank Holidays was carefully controlled precisely to prevent anybody doing that.

Undervalued

As others have suggested, in the unlikely event that the employer agrees then by all means try and book those dates if it suits.

However, remember that when an employee can take their holiday is entirely up to the employer providing they are allowed to take it at some point during the year. Also, just by giving fairly minimal notice, an employee can be instructed to take holiday and / or "pre booked" holiday can be cancelled by the employer!

silvercar

Undervalued said:

As others have suggested, in the unlikely event that the employer agrees then by all means try and book those dates if it suits.

However, remember that when an employee can take their holiday is entirely up to the employer providing they are allowed to take it at some point during the year. Also, just by giving fairly minimal notice, an employee can be instructed to take holiday and / or "pre booked" holiday can be cancelled by the employer!

Unless it is taken as paternity leave, in which case only 28 notice is required to be given and the employer can’t refuse. I accept that you need to have had a baby within the last year.

Hoenir

silvercar said:

Undervalued said:

As others have suggested, in the unlikely event that the employer agrees then by all means try and book those dates if it suits.

However, remember that when an employee can take their holiday is entirely up to the employer providing they are allowed to take it at some point during the year. Also, just by giving fairly minimal notice, an employee can be instructed to take holiday and / or "pre booked" holiday can be cancelled by the employer!

Unless it is taken as paternity leave, in which case only 28 notice is required to be given and the employer can’t refuse. I accept that you need to have had a baby within the last year.

The employer can refuse under the Working Time Regulations 1998. 

silvercar

Hoenir said:

silvercar said:

Undervalued said:

As others have suggested, in the unlikely event that the employer agrees then by all means try and book those dates if it suits.

However, remember that when an employee can take their holiday is entirely up to the employer providing they are allowed to take it at some point during the year. Also, just by giving fairly minimal notice, an employee can be instructed to take holiday and / or "pre booked" holiday can be cancelled by the employer!

Unless it is taken as paternity leave, in which case only 28 notice is required to be given and the employer can’t refuse. I accept that you need to have had a baby within the last year.

The employer can refuse under the Working Time Regulations 1998. 

No longer the case. The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 mean that for babies born after 6 April 2024, the employer can’t refuse.

Hoenir

silvercar said:

Hoenir said:

silvercar said:

Undervalued said:

As others have suggested, in the unlikely event that the employer agrees then by all means try and book those dates if it suits.

However, remember that when an employee can take their holiday is entirely up to the employer providing they are allowed to take it at some point during the year. Also, just by giving fairly minimal notice, an employee can be instructed to take holiday and / or "pre booked" holiday can be cancelled by the employer!

Unless it is taken as paternity leave, in which case only 28 notice is required to be given and the employer can’t refuse. I accept that you need to have had a baby within the last year.

The employer can refuse under the Working Time Regulations 1998. 

No longer the case. The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 mean that for babies born after 6 April 2024, the employer can’t refuse.

Can be postponed for up to 6 months. If there a justifiable business case.  

silvercar

Hoenir said:

silvercar said:

Hoenir said:

silvercar said:

Undervalued said:

As others have suggested, in the unlikely event that the employer agrees then by all means try and book those dates if it suits.

However, remember that when an employee can take their holiday is entirely up to the employer providing they are allowed to take it at some point during the year. Also, just by giving fairly minimal notice, an employee can be instructed to take holiday and / or "pre booked" holiday can be cancelled by the employer!

Unless it is taken as paternity leave, in which case only 28 notice is required to be given and the employer can’t refuse. I accept that you need to have had a baby within the last year.

The employer can refuse under the Working Time Regulations 1998. 

No longer the case. The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 mean that for babies born after 6 April 2024, the employer can’t refuse.

Can be postponed for up to 6 months. If there a justifiable business case.  

Not according to a lot of lawyer comments on the internet eg 

https://www.keystonelaw.com/keynotes/how-will-the-amended-paternity-laws-impact-employment   “Unlike parental leave, a request to take paternity leave cannot be refused or postponed.”

 Another one https://www.monacosolicitors.co.uk/discrimination/paternity-leave  “As long as you are eligible and have given the right amount of notice, your employer cannot legally refuse or postpone your paternity leave.”