Holiday Entitlement For A Foreign National.

[Traci66]

I have a friend who is Romanian, she has been living and working in the UK for the last three years, is it true that every three or five years the company has to allow her to take all of her annual leave in one go in order to go home and visit her family, or is this just myth?

[woofgang]

myth

[fiction-factory]

I must admit that i don't know so this reply is probably not helpful, but in my experience of working in HR and management I never came across it and I cannot see how it could be workable.

[Traci66]

She has just asked me if I knew, and I didn't, because that is what she has been told by somebody today and where she works they don't allow more than two weeks at anyone time. Thank you.

[Tuvok]

Surely it would depend on the company and the job?

[DTCwordfan]

and how much they value her.

[webbo3]

Myth, if her family lived in Australia where you may require more than a couple of weeks due to the distance then it would be down to the employer, but Romania is a couple of hours by plane and and there is no reason why she would need all of her holiday in one go, again it would be down to her employer.


Dave.

[sapelesam]

I asked my wife who is an employment law professional (Solicitor). All holiday entitlement will be in the contract signed on commencement of employment. The ability to take all holiday for a foreign national is a myth. My wife's recommendation is for your friend to give as much notice as possible and ask her employer to consider her request for this holiday of 4 weeks. If it is refused, accept it in good grace and ask for a compromise, i.e. is 3 weeks possible. Hope this helps.

[Peter Pedant]

never heard it

ask who she got it from and if they know the rule or not
such the same rule in Romania - in Romanian - she will be able to tell you - somewhere it would tell you which directive it was and she can translate

and if she says ( deep voice ) Nay not romarny - angleesky

you can say in a deep voice - nay romarny nay angleesky

At work I used to go crazy with wild goose chases
well I heard from Madge - my fren' madge - she's the char darn the road, SAID that she THOUGHT there was a law ......

[ yeah and I asked Madge that and she said that because you didnt know the law didnt mean that the law was not true ... n she had heard..... ]

[woofgang]

PP when I was working in the NHS part of my job was manual handling training. There was much cr-rubbish talked about elf n safety and much other cr-rubbish talked by social service about the NHS staff responsibilities. Every time somebody said to me “its the law” I used to say “Oh I must have missed that when I read LOLER” which I actually had done “Can you give me the reference please?” Amazing how often...actually always....the mumbled response would be something like “oh its more of a guideline......” I then used to complete the crushing by asking to be given a reference in LOLER to the relevant piece of law from which the “guideline” was derived.
Goodness I miss crushing idiots. Not enough to go back to work though.

[Hopkirk]

If it were true it would be discrimination against the rest of us who weren't allowed to do this.

[Traci66]

Thanks for all the answers , now to break it to her. I know for a fact that her contract states no longer than two weeks to be taken at any one time, I know this because I used to work for the same company. They are not a very nice company, when my husband was dying they said if I didn't turn in for my shift it would be a disciplinary situation. I told them where they could shove it!