Do you have a deadline for booking annual leave.

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I'm trying to gauge how other companies do this - I've been nearly 3 years in my job and we've just been told for next year 22/23 we must book all of our annual leave by end of June 22. To me this is crazy, I don't plan my life this way, and up till now we've been able to book with 24 hours notice.
I've never come across this before, and I'm just wondering if this is usual/normal before I start raising objections.
TIA.

We don't have a deadline and can request up to 2 years in advance.

There's pros and cons both ways. I tend to know what I'm doing and get it booked in so a deadline wouldn't make a difference to me. My colleague likes to book last minute so it would be a pain for her. However, she often finds the dates she wants are booked.

I do like to keep a week aside for emergencies though.

It’s supposed to be 2 weeks notice....but you can request the day before if something comes up and it’s never a problem ....... we can only start booking from the April ....again it’s never a problem out of school hols....,for school hols we have to put our names on a rota..,,,there’s 12 clinical staff....and as long as 2 are in, your leave will be agreed.....I can count on one hand ..,,the number of times this has been an issue in the 10 years I have been with the team ....and personally I have never been affected.....we are supposed to use 2/3rds of our leave before Christmas....but no one checks.....it’s fine to use up to 3 weeks together....any more than 3 weeks, needs agreement from higher management ( eg long haul hols)

How far in advance is the end of that period? You say 22/23 leave.

DH's leave year ran 1 Jan-31Dec. He used to have to have any requests for more than a week in before November the year before (ie upto 14 months in advance) it was an absolute pita, because we didn't know what the schools were doing, so had to guess the end of the summer holidays, Oct half term and Xmas. And they were really strict not only about who could be off together, but whose leave could follow whose.

Now, he can pretty much do what he wants. Leave year starts on your joining date, so everyone is on a different cycle. So far its not been an issue at all.

I used to have to give twice as much notice as the time I wanted off - so 2 days notice for a day off, months notice for a fortnight off. Now I'm on fixed holidays, and I know what's going on for the next year or so.

Can beat that - Dh is a postie and they have too book their annual leave in October this year for April 23 to April 24 !! Try planning that far ahead it's a nightmare .

OK, so it's not just us then....
The period 22/23 runs from April 1st 22 - March 31st 23, so it's around 9 months ahead we're supposed to have it booked. This is ALL leave, can't even keep a few days back for unexpected events. Up until the deadline we can be booking leave with only 24 hours notice.
Do those of you who have to book far ahead (or your partners) know what shifts you'll be working at that time? I only get my rota 6-8 weeks ahead and it has no pattern, my 2 days off each week could be weekend, could be not, and sometimes I get 2 together and sometimes they're spread out so I like to base my leave around them to get the most out of it. We don't really do long foreign holidays we tend to do fairly last minute pop off camping in the UK for a few days or a long weekend here or there, so the new rule is gonna be a massive spanner in the works for us!
I was gobsmacked when I read it, but maybe I'm just gonna have to suck it up.

I know this is normal in other organisations, but I can request leave whenever I like - admittedly I’m a team of 1 in the office so there’s no cover requirement as no one else does my job, I’m just expected to organise my diary around it.

We do have a deadline for Christmas leave, and groups that need a certain level of cover (secretaries/finance) coordinate, but our teams are small enough to do that informally, so our set up is the same as yours was. I think we’d have a riot if things suddenly changed to that length of notice!

My DH leave is 1 May to 30 April each year. The holiday book opens on 1 November the year before. So on 1 No ember 2022, DH will put in for holidays between 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2024. You don’t have to put your holidays in that day but if you don’t, the likelihood of getting time off at Easter or over the School summer holidays is slim.