With staff shortages now affecting many businesses due to coronavirus-related incapacity for work, one option to consider is cancelling the annual leave of those workers who are still fit to work.
Can you lawfully do this?
Published 27.01.2022
With January representing the start of a new holiday year for many employees, what are the key issues relating to their annual leave entitlement in 2023 that you need to be thinking about now?
Published 04.01.2023
With the government’s coronavirus delay strategy now being progressed on a daily basis, what are the latest measures due to come into force, or already in force, that specifically affect employers?
Published 14.04.2020
The coronavirus pandemic has thwarted a lot of staff holiday plans for 2020. If any workers haven’t been taking their annual leave, what’s the legal position if, towards the end of your holiday year,
they request to sell some of it back to you?
Published 03.11.2020
The Court of Justice of the European Union has held that workers don’t automatically lose the right to holiday if they didn’t seek to take it because they weren’t encouraged to do so. What does this
mean for employers?
Published 17.12.2018
With the news that international travel will continue to be limited in spring/summer 2021, some workers will find their planned summer holidays abroad having to be cancelled. Can the worker then
cancel their pre-booked annual leave?
Published 10.05.2021
The Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed that national laws can limit the carry-over of holiday to four weeks’ annual leave in cases of sickness absence. What are the implications for
UK employers?
Published 16.12.2019
When a worker leaves your employment, they are entitled to be paid in lieu of their accrued but untaken statutory annual leave entitlement. How do you calculate that, and what happens if they’ve
already taken more than they’ve accrued?
Published 03.06.2021
The Court of Appeal has held that a worker can carry over payment for annual leave where they were allowed to take it but on an unpaid basis. What are the implications?
Published 18.02.2022
There have been many questions raised by employers about whether employees can request or be required to take their annual leave, including bank holidays, during furlough. What’s the position?
Published 07.05.2020