Last minute holidays have become increasingly popular. But an employee can’t book one and then expect you to fall in with their eleventh hour plans. What’s the real deal here?
Published 29.06.2015
One way to boost staff motivation levels is to allow employees to buy additional annual leave. But what about the opposite arrangement, whereby employees are allowed to sell holiday back to you? Is
this an equally good idea?
Published 15.12.2014
Two employees have submitted competing requests for holiday during August. One is a parent and the other isn’t. If you can’t agree both requests, must the parent be given preferential treatment over
the non-parent?
Published 07.06.2019
Due to the way the bank holidays fall in April and May 2017, many employees will be able to take 18 consecutive days off work using nine days’ holiday. If this doesn’t suit you, can you say “no”?
Published 13.01.2017
Half way through your holiday year a part-time employee moves over to full time hours. According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, what should happen to their annual leave entitlement in
this situation?
Published 09.12.2015
An employee has sent an e-mail saying they’ll be a few days late returning to work from annual leave as their flight back to the UK has been cancelled. As they say it’s not their fault, what should
you do now?
Published 21.09.2018
Employees who are off sick for a whole holiday year still accrue statutory paid annual leave. But suppose they don’t request it, what’s the legal position then?
Published 30.11.2011
You operate an annual shutdown between Christmas and New Year and require staff to save enough leave to cover it. However, one employee hasn’t enough leave left. What are your options?
Published 17.11.2005
At the start of a new annual leave year employers are often inundated with requests for popular dates, for example during school holidays. Where a number of employees want the same time off, could
you pick names out of a hat?
Published 13.12.2013