Asking this for a friend who doesn't have an account here.
She works within the finance industry (think auditing), and her company is very much in favour of butts in seats, faces in the office. Even though they can work from home and all they need is a laptop, it makes management uncomfortable that they can't be kept an eye on.
Anyway, insert COVID and HR is asking her and all other employees to sign a new contract which says to take all 25 days holiday by 31 July this year. They know employees can't go anywhere and that they are asking employees to work non-stop between August - December excluding bank holidays.
The reason for this is because they think that output is lower since everyone is WFH. And it wouldn't be good for business if everyone took all their holidays in the last few months of the year due to COVID.
Can they do this? Can my friend and her colleagues simply refuse to sign it?
If it's relevant, she has 12 days of holiday left and was going to use this towards the end of the year to plan a trip to NZ.
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Dontjumptoconclusions · 15/04/2020 12:43
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