Annual leave

[Debtfreeme]

I work for the NHS in a busy environment. I don’t always get a chance to check emails. I missed am email asking for annual leave requests Jan-March and didn’t realise I still had a week left.

i got an email stating as I hadn’t booked I had lost weeks annual leave, I wished they hadn’t told me. Can they actually do that I just loose a weeks leave. In the past it would always just be added at a date that suited the service and not you if you hadn’t booked it.

Yes they can do that unfortunately, they could let you carry it over but that is at their discretion.

It’s so unfair

How much time went by between them sending this email and them telling you that you’d missed your chance?

Can your manager agree a 'local arrangement', essentially give you the leave without putting it through the system? I'm a civil servant and I have done this for one of my team.

Assume this is leave carried over, so you have to use up. Is there a reason you could not keep track and needed prompting? Does your pay slip show leave taken and outstanding?

They should have a policy. When does your annual leave year run from? April to March? It would be unusual to make you take a certain amount of leave in a 3 month period, unless it's a reminder that the leave year is coming to an end.

Are you allowed to carry any days over into the next leave year? Either way, it's really your responsibility to keep an eye on how much leave you have left and book it before the deadline.

To be fair I think most places are 'use it or lose it' ~ not sure what more can be done if they've already prompted you. Most companies wouldn't and would just expect you to keep on top of your entitlements/requests.