Lieu time

[MG-lad]

I manage my own holiday & lieu time, but my employer told me I had to use my holiday entitlement first, before I started eating away at the huge amount of lieu time I've built up. I did this like a good little employee and now my employer has told me the lieu time slate will be wiped clean on 1st November meaning I can't take time that I had planned to take in November as I was expecting the slate to be wiped clean in January. Is this legal? on reading various sites on the surface i think it might be.?

[Lil O'lady]

Joining a union would give you access to advice in this kind of situation. It sounds like your boss is pulling a fast one but if you agree to it, he's got away with it.

[factor-fiction]

What does your company's Conditions of Employment handbook say on the arrangements for holidays in lieu?

[brenda]

Drop everything (work I mean and take it now rather than lose it)

Show the boss that 2 can play his sort of game!

In future learn from this employees never , ever benefit from lieu time.

[buildersmate]

Yup, I'd go with Brenda's suggestion - you are being seriously messed around here. The more usual way is that lieu time gets taken up first, not second.
Sorry - Lil - don't agree with the Union suggestion. For most people an expensive way (union fees) of having your terms negotiated down to the lowest common denominator.

[saxy_jag]

It's an interesting one. Most places I've worked for have had rules that you can only build up so much TOIL before you have to take it, and you're also limited as to how much you can carry over from one month to the next.