Just reading another thread about holiday entitlement and was wondering... can a company refuse to give you your holiday entitlement? My company (retail) says that if you don't book your holiday by a certain time you just won't get it, you can't carry it over and you won't be paid in lieu iyswim. problem is a lot of weeks get 'closed' at the start of the year (school hols) and as it's run on first come first served (or more acurately friends and family of the person in charge of hols get first choice!) a lot of people try unsuccessfully several times to book hols and it takes a few weeks to find out you've been unsuccessful. The upshot is that everyone then piles in and tries to book time off Feb/March at the end of financial year which then also gets closed! The added problem is that new staff who arrive late in the holiday year can also lose out...
Are they allowed to do this?! I often wonder but I've been on maternity leave, have just returned and received my holiday forms!
(Hope that made sense!)