Holiday - Thoughts

Hi all,

When you have a new employee who has some holiday booked in advance, do you honour them even though the timing is not ideal for the company?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Sarah

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  • Thank you so much to all of you for your replies. Very useful and in line with my thinking.

  • Hi Sarah,

    When I'm involved in interviews, I would normally clarify this at the interview. Again I hope this is helpful.
  • Hi Sarah,

    Yes, I would find out during the interview stage if any holidays were booked and would honour them.

    Hope that helps.

    Barbara

  • Hi Sarah, 

    As long as the employee advised us at the interview stage or before they started we would honour it.

    I agree with Emily and Sarah it does set the right tone for the future. 

    Hope this helps 

    Gosia 

  • Hello,

    Yes we always honour previously booked holidays. We tend to ask at the end of an interview whether the candidate has any holidays booked in the near-future. This then allows us to forward plan and adapt if the timing isn't ideal for the department. I agree with Sarah, you need to set the right tone and want new employees to be motivated.

    Emily.

  • Morning Sarah<br />
    <br />
    Yes I would and I had this recently in my own business when a new employee had booked some time off during the week when I was also off which was far from ideal. In the interest of good employee relations and setting the right tone I decided I would honour their pre-booked holidays as The employee did advise me of this when they started.<br />
    <br />
    Hope this helps all the best Sarah
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