As the restrictions on foreign travel are lifted, many employees are planning to go abroad. If they are required to quarantine on their return to the UK what are their pay rights?
Published 03.06.2021
An employee wants to travel to a country that isn’t on the government’s travel corridor list. If they go, they’ll need to self-isolate for 14 days on their return. As they can’t work from home, can
you refuse their annual leave request?
Published 27.08.2020
An employee wants to carry their unused statutory holiday entitlement over into your next holiday year so that they can travel long-haul to visit family. What, if anything, can they carry over?
Published 14.12.2022
You’ve received a holiday request form which has “holiday already booked” written across it. However, you can’t accommodate this request as you already have too many employees on annual leave then.
Where do you stand?
Published 04.05.2023
An employee’s holiday plans have fallen apart due to the pandemic. They’ve asked to cancel their previously booked annual leave and take this time off at a later date. Must you agree?
Published 08.04.2020
You offer all your employees the same amount of holiday but one member of staff says this isn’t enough. They’ve asked if they can buy some additional days from you. If you agree, are there any
benefits for you in this arrangement?
Published 24.10.2018
One of your employees will soon be taking a two-week holiday. During that time it would be really helpful if they could deal with any urgent queries. Can you ask them to still be available for work
on this basis?
Published 01.06.2017
With the summer holiday season fast approaching, annual leave requests are flooding in. What’s the story if you turn down a request but the employee announces that he’s taking the time off anyway?
Published 03.06.2005
A job candidate has asked if you will honour their two-week holiday which has already been booked. Must you grant a new hire’s pre-booked holiday and if so would they be entitled to pay during this
time?
Published 23.06.2021
To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, June 4 and 5 are bank holidays. Many employees have assumed they are automatically entitled to take both days off - but that’s not necessarily the case.
What’s the legal position?
Published 24.05.2012