Forced to take Holidays

[pennypincher]

I'm just wondering if anyone has experience of the following situation. An employer forces you to take holidays or unpaid leave because the company isn't going so well. Then after a couple of months you are made redundant and because you haven't worked up the time to take those holidays they are deducted from your Time in Lieu. Is this legal....general opinion is no,but no one in Departmnet of Employment can point me to a law which covers it.

 

[nelly]

Here you are forced to take holidays that you have already worked up. To stop the workaholics taking the money for them and them burning out.
I don't think anyone can force you to take holidays. Maybe its a company policy you signed up to when you put your name to a contract?

 

[ajapale]

hi PP,

I think your employer can insist that you take holidays.

Also its not unusual for companies experiencing difficult trading conditions to put workers on short time or temporary lay off. Workers on short time or temporary lay off do not accrue annual leave.

The legislation is [broken link removed]. See the other related key posts in the sticky at the top of this forum.

I dont understand what you mean by 'Time in Lieu'? Perhaps you could explain.

 

[pennypincher]

Apologies,what I mean by time in lieu is that instead of the company allowing you to work up your last month,they let you go immediately but pay you for the month in advance,however because you have not accrued enough worked time to take those holidays you were forced to take,they deduct the amount owed to the company from this pay i.e 1 weeks pay for example.