Staff Holiday

[legal girl]

We have someone at work who never takes all the holiday he is entitled to - he takes two days a year, if that. Just out of interest; should the company insist that he takes his full holiday entitlement?

[silliemillie]

I think we need to know more of his personal circumstances, if he has nothing of nobody at home then I can see why maybe he wants to be around others (there were a few people like that where I used to work).

But if not & he is in charge of money, invoices or something thats a little more suspicious.

My firm didnt make you take all your holiday but you had to take some for 'refreshing' purposes they said.

[chas2008]

Skyline, not cynics , fact !!! as VHG & squarebear has also seen.

[boxtops]

I've checked our NHS policy, and the policy says that managers and employers should encourage people to take their full holiday allowance (in the interests of employee wellbeing) but there is no insistence - you just lose your holidays if you haven't taken them all by the end of March. In the current climate, there is no way you'd be paid to stay at work rather than take your hols. No way either we can take unpaid leave unless in an emergency - we are needed in the office, not enough staff already, and there is nobody to cover our work when we're away.

[Skyline D]

I'm not saying it hasn't happened chas, clearly it can be the case. Never the less it absolutely is cynical for that to be the first thought regarding anyone who hasn't taken his full holiday entitlement.

Perhaps he just enjoys his work and doesn't particularly enjoy holidays?