Do you get paid for untaken holiday?

We can have 10 days roll over but need to use them before April.

It seems good but inevitably, you just roll over that much every year and I often do a lot of work traveling / projects that I cannot be away for during Jan/Feb/March so it can still be a push!
 
Nope.

If I don't use it then our admin will just book the days off (off course they ask first which days we want).

Get over 50 days and it's still not enough!
 
If I don't take them I'll lose them. Wouldn't get paid for them either. Our holiday system is joke frankly. We get 9 days every 4 months and can't roll them over to the next four months never mind the next year. So basically means that unless you use your rota for example day off after nights you can't ever have a 2 week break or holiday.
 
In the Swiss office, you used to be able to roll ALL your holiday. One chap accrued about 90 days over the space of 7 years, which he got paid when he was made redundant.
 
Spook187 said:
Never understood why folk continue not to take their holiday entitlement, losing out on valuable times off.
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I used to work for the second biggest IT company in the world at the time. There was a colleague in my team who worked in the German office that had never taken a holiday ever during his entire career.

You could accrue as many holidays as you wanted. He had like 3 years worth of annual leave accrued. His plan was to take the annual leave all in 1 go before he retired. Effectively he could then retire 3-5 years earlier and still receive full pay, etc for all that time.

The company announced that it would no longer allow people to accrue holidays in the year I joined. They could carry over a few days but they had to be used up within 2 years or something.

I can't remember if he had to take his or they let him keep his accrued amount but it sounded like a good plan tbh. The business never envisaged it would need to pay someone a full wage for so long and then also have to recruit someone to fill the position as who would do his work for the 3-5 year holiday at the same time. Once it was flagged they got rid of it.



At my current workplace you can carry over 10 but then the following year you still have a limit of 10 so therefore you would need to use that years full amount to carry over the 10 you had from the previous year. I plan on banking 10 holidays this year. I banked 9 last year so I never used 1 holiday this year so I can bank the max. It wasn't that hard obviously and now I have 10 spare holidays I can use whenever I feel like. I will keep them in the bank for an emergency, etc.
 
We can roll 5 over but then we have to use those within the first few months of the year. Our holiday runs from Jan - Jan.

In past year's I've lost a nearly two weeks of leave because I haven't used it but last year my manager forced me to take nearly all of this Jan off to use them up. As you can tell I don't take many days off, most public holidays, I'll work and not take the days in lieu. I suppose I'm a bit of a workaholic.
 
Blackvault said:
We can roll 5 over but then we have to use those within the first few months of the year. Our holiday runs from Jan - Jan.

In past year's I've lost a nearly two weeks of leave because I haven't used it but last year my manager forced me to take nearly all of this Jan off to use them up. As you can tell I don't take many days off, most public holidays, I'll work and not take the days in lieu. I suppose I'm a bit of a workaholic.
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Why don't you use them rather than losing them? Seems crazy to throw away time off IMO. Your not doing your health (stress levels) any favours. Unless of course you get something in return for all this extra work, perks, bonuses, etc which other's don't.
 
Nope, use it or lose it.

This isn't generally a problem though as i'll use my holidays well before the end of year, and have to go 4/5 months without a day off :(
 
you can carry 5 days into the next year but you have to use them by Easter,
used to be unlimited but some people like me ended up with over 50 days to take so they clamped down.

Only way to get it paid out is go on a expat assignment, i got 30 days paid up before i went on my last one.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Why don't you use them rather than losing them? Seems crazy to throw away time off IMO. Your not doing your health (stress levels) any favours. Unless of course you get something in return for all this extra work, perks, bonuses, etc which other's don't.
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Yeah I wasn't doing myself any favours, along with working more hours than needed to each week for nearly 4 years. It resulted in me getting down and depressed for nearly 6 months before I accepted it but I went to the doctors and sought help. So far I'm on the road to recovery and aim to use my holiday allowance this year.
 
Only time we'll get a roll over of holiday allocation is if there's a genuine reason such as being off long term sick!

As a general rule of thumb I like to keep a close track of my allocation and ensure I'm not being short changed by my company. This also makes sure all my holidays are used up within the allocated time period.
 
Ours are contract specific. If you are on a management contract at our place you can sell them back to the company or roll them 3 months into the next financial year.
 
I believe we can carry over 3, or 5 days? It's never come up with me because I never have any left over. A few years ago in my last job I found myself having to use up holiday before the end of the year, it's the opposite these days. Feel like buying more days (which we can do).
 
Max of 15 days carry over without permission, if i wish to carry over more i must have a very valid reason and must seek written permission, however i like to take my leave and this is very unlikely to happen.
This year I carried over 10 days, knowing this i've taken a few Fridays/Mondays off in the past few weeks and have whittled that extra 10 down to 5, which i feel comfortable with as that gives me a spare week off at some point in the year should i need it.
38 days leave granted per year, which includes bank holidays, however the reality is much different from whats on paper, on top of annual entitlement, we usually get ~4-6 granted long weekends each year which dont come off leave card and that dosnt include the buckshee days that our line manager gives us.

My job before that was, any untaken leave was converted to pay at the end of the financial year, dont remember the leave entitlement though.
 
Kenai said:
Ours works by birth month so everyone's entitlement runs to a different schedule, stops the 'Oh crap it's nearly December, need to use up my holiday' rush from a whole company
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That sounds like a good idea in one way but does perhaps rely more on the system and reminders for people to take holidays rather than everyone knowing that you've got to take holidays by a certain date which is standard across the company.

Where I work you can carry over up to nine days without prior approval or more if you get the relevant sign off. You can get paid for untaken days when you leave but I'm not sure if you can request paid for days you haven't taken otherwise.
 
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