is it legal for companies to dictate your annual leave to you, and tell you when you will be off?

[Whiteandbrownrabbit]

wanted to ppost this for a relative that says she gets only 4 weeks leave, no bank holidays and those four weeks she is told when she will be having them
ed she wants a fortnight in aug and a week at easter and end of sept

but gets told your holidays are april june oct and nov
so not even spaced out

is this even legal

I thought it was probably against her human rights or something

Totally legal. My DH has his holidays set out by his company. It's standard in his industry. He is in a small team so they are allowed to give preferred dates and if only one wants it they will get it, but other than that it's completely randomly allocated.

They are allowed to swap each other weeks if they wish.