My contractual period is two months.
But due to the situation at work (the two biggest contracts being lost), they are willing to let me go early, at the end of the year.

The holiday year, however, runs from January 1st to December 31st, which means that if I am employed on 1st January, I will have 25 days holiday, which is a month's pay on top of my final salary payment.

If I request January the 3rd as my last day (which would realistically mean my last actual day in the office would be something like the 28th), can they feasibly insist I go earlier so they don't have to pay the 25 days holiday pay?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:03, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

No because you'll get pro-rata holidays
In other words if you have 24 days holiday you're entitled to 2 a month.

If you lerave at the end of January they'll owe you 2 days.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:06, Reply)

Really?
But if I was employed there I could (potentially) take all 25 days off in a five week block. Which would mean taking holidays I hadn't accrued yet.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:07, Reply)

So you'd owe them money for holidays you'd not earned.
That's the way it almost universally works.

If you leave on Jan 3rd they'll owe you about 45 minutes.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:09, Reply)

So go for ASAP then?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:10, Reply)

You may as well
Have you taken all of your 2011 holiday entitlement?

If so you'll owe THEM about 2 days if you leave before end of December.

Double check your contract, but I've never known a company that doesn't work like that.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:13, Reply)

I have half a day left.
I caned a load of annual leave on days off to go to interviews.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 22:16, Reply)