Holiday abroad and work. Are you allowed?

[OnceUponACat]

Has your employer forbidden you to go abroad? To a non 14 day isolation country?
Can they even do that?

I totally agree re the employer deciding to implement a 14 day isolation but since it is their decision and not the gov then it is them who has to provide you with alternative work or pay you for your leave.

Don’t tell them where you’re going. They don’t have a right to know where you go on holiday. It’s your time, not theirs. Although I do agree that you should not go anywhere that you’d have to quarantine on return as you will make yourself unavailable for work.

You have to tell them if you are going away and in that basis they can approve your AL or not or cancel it even, if wfh is not possible and they can’t afford to have you not working.

Tell them to go fuck themselves.

Or just tell them you’re not going away.

I find it really funny how people think this is ok. Demanding to know where people are going during the holidays to which they are lawfully entitled, imposing their own travel rules, wanting to see booking forms. It actually really isn’t OK for an employer to impose these limits on a worker seeking to simply exercise their right to holiday. If you go along with this in your own place of work, you’re nothing but a doormat and a mug.

@SengaStrawberry you put my feeling in writing. I was trying to be diplomatic.

Not a doormat nor a mug. But you have to thread carefully and have all your ducks in a row even when facing an employer who is not a small business one man band kind of employer but a big state of affair.

The point is not accepting it or not, the point is that it is wrong in the first place and being put in the unpleasant position of having to fight it