holliday pay

[willsy]

Hi EVEYONE, if i had booked a day of work for xmas shopping, and on that day other people were sent home or didnt attend through snow and were paid can i claim that day back against my holliday allowance. many thanks in anticipation of your reply.

[factor-fiction]

No- unless your employer is feeling generous.
Many of those people who went in may have struggled in. Even those who didn't make it may have made an effort, and the employer has decided to pay them.
You could always ask, though.

[razza]

Factor30 is correct,just your bad luck.

[redcrx]

you have no right to be paid this as the others were, unless your bosses do so as a gesture.
You had booked holiday,

[factor-fiction]

In my experience the employer could make a rod for his/her own back by paying you since I think it would lead to complaints from those who struggled in. I'm not sure I would even agree you were unlucky: you haven't lost anything- you asked for a holiday and you got it.

[buildersmate]

I have just denied someone a day's pay for Monday on the basis that most staff struggled in at the start of snow, yet this individual failed to phone me (from home) until after I had decided to send the others back home. Someone else with a day's holiday booked that day knows they will get short shrift if they ask me for a day back again in lieu.
It is a management decision / concession to send staff home.

[willsy]

many thanks for your response