Now they want to cancel holiday booked – What are my rights as an employer?

Holiday cancelled

As I sat there with my bowl of Fruit n Fibre (other cereals are available) and first Coffee this morning, the news was alight with announcements about the Government’s new traffic light system for grading countries as we emerge from the pandemic. Green country’s will require PCR tests on return. Amber country’s will require self […]

Holiday during the closure

I am writing this to try and answer what many of you are asking about how holidays will work whilst your business is closed. This blog attempts to answer what you can do if the majority of staff are furloughed under the Job Retention Scheme as you have no work for them to do. Late […]

World Cup – What to do when the business wants to stop to watch football!

How do I balance employees’ understandable interest with the needs of the business? You are not the first person to have asked me about this. World Cup fever is setting in around the country, right on the back of Royal Wedding fever. Even ACAS is on board and has issued advice to businesses, encouraging them […]

Calculating Holidays for Term Time Only Staff in Early Years

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So Sorry Can’t Come Back From My Holidays On Time!

Over the years we’ve had a few of these ‘stories’. Ranging from people genuinely caught up in Volcanic Ash to not quite so believable tales of people’s car awaiting parts in the South of France. In your handbook you should have a section on failure to return from holiday on time. You may be suspicious if […]