Is an Annual Leave Purchase scheme the key to balancing budgets and life? More time off means extra opportunities to enjoy what really matters, and when employees purchase additional annual leave via your employee benefits offering, it reduces your wage bill. Let’s explore what an annual leave purchase scheme can do for your people and […]
Something for the weekend: Booking annual leave in advance generally gives employees something to look forward to. However, if you found out that the leave you booked seven months ago was suddenly cancelled by your boss, you would understandably want a really good explanation as to why. Michael Sanz, who goes by @theoutsourcingexpert on TikTok […]
More than 2,000 British Airways engineers have received three days of annual leave, returning their allowance to pre-pandemic levels. The engineering staff maintain and service British Airways’ 280 aircraft based at Heathrow, Gatwick, the maintenance and overhaul facility at Glasgow airport, and line stations across the UK and Ireland. According to trade union Unite, these […]
Cardiff-based production firm EatSleep Media has introduced unlimited annual leave for its 13 members of staff. Included in the policy is a minimum number holiday days, with no set maximum. The business will not require staff to submit formal leave requests in order to take holiday, and senior leadership will check in with staff to […]
Package holiday provider Jet2 has given its employees an extra four days of annual leave this year, with the aim of helping its 12,500 employees look after their mental wellbeing. The added leave allowance is on top of employees’ annual leave for the 2022 calendar year, and can be taken at any time this year. […]
Employee Benefits poll: More than a third (35%) of employers have told employees that they must book additional holiday days if they are impacted by flight delays and get stuck abroad. This have been occurring over the past few months due to a shortage of airport workers, air traffic control restrictions and a resurgence in […]
Sussex-based marketing agency Smart Monkey Marketing has introduced unlimited annual leave to encourage an improved work-life balance for its three full-time members of staff and four freelancers. Under the policy, a minimum number of days should be taken as annual leave per quarter, so that staff are aware that, while they do not need to […]
Outsourcing organisation Mitie has awarded its 25,000 employees an extra day of holiday to reward them for their hard work during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. This extra day of annual leave for front-line employees is in addition to the access to health and wellbeing support it is offering its employees during the pandemic, which includes […]
Just under half (46%) of full-time employees are cancelling an average of seven days annual leave in 2020, according to research by Timetastic. The survey of 2002 UK employees, published in May 2020, also found that just over one-third (36%) have not been informed by their employers of any guidelines in relation to carrying over […]
In the UK, around 40% of employees take just half of their annual leave or less. On average, UK employees take just 62% of their annual leave entitlement[1]. Although social distancing and COVID-19 is expected to continue for at least the next few months, we wanted to stress the importance of making sure your people […]
Employees who are unable to take all of their statutory annual leave entitlement in the current year will be able to carry it over into the next two years. The amendment to the Working Time Regulations, which was announced on 27 March 2020, has been put in place to support employees unable to take time […]