employees -holidays

[tali122]

is it true that employers can no longer dictate to,employees when to take holidays/annual leave/lieu days , someone at work claimed there is new legislation , but i am sure it only applies in certain circumstances - if so . what are they?

thx

[Lonnie]

Where I work, a large company employing some hundreds of people, this wouldn't be workable, but we can change our holidays with each other, so it must only be certain circumstances.

[dotjhawkes]

In retail there are certain times when holidays are not possible, sales, seasons etc, and so a list is given to the employee as part of their contract of employment and if they have signed to agree then it is an enforceable agreement, we can take holidays in weeks 1-6, 16-24 etc, our year starts 1st Feb.

[stumpage]

Employers must make sure that they allow employees the time to take all their holiday entitlement in the year but the employee does not have the right to take whatever days they like. For example if 2 people carry out the same job in a business then the company are within their rights to insist that those two people don't have the same days off etc.