toonsy:
In short I’m not sure if paying parallel is permitted. I know my old place you had to take 20 days leave but any more (lieu days etc) they’d pay it as test day work.
You’re probably right. Last agency was using a ‘pay company’ (whatever it means) and was setting aside 12% (or so) from my earnings as PAYE for holiday pay so I was able to get my pot on demand pretty much every Friday if I wanted to. This one however said I have 9 days (as opposed to the previous one who was quoting an amount of £££ I had available) and my pay comes from the agency directly.
I was trying to use a day here and a day there when they’d cancel a shift but they said they need 14 days notice before booking a holiday so that didn’t work either now I’m stuck with almost 10 days of literally nothing to do. Unless I can find some work through another agency for the same time period 