At my work we have just been given details of the employers’ directions as to the WTD and in particular holidays. After 1 year’s employment we get an extra 5 days holiday making 25 in total. Now to quote from the memo that we received:-
“The law will not allow us to do anything with the 20 days statutory days and these must be taken within the holiday year, but the advantages of paid rest days is that they can be carried over into the next year, or paid to drivers rather than be taken. While we hope to not have to use this facility, it could be useful to have the opportunity if needed. To allow us to do this, we are issuing a slight change to our employment contracts that say you get 20 statutory days, plus 8 paid rest days. The 20 statutory days are made of 12 leave days and 8 bank holidays. we are including the bank holidays in the 20 you have to take, as these are fixed to particular dates in the year. You will still have the same amount of holidays and still be paid the same and book them the same way as before, but we may, by agreement, be able to use the paid rest days to help reduce your average to below 48 hours limit, or else be able to pay you at Christmas for the days you haven’t used.”
Now, I can’t really get my head around this at the moment (currently on my 3rd Stella ) but wondered in the learned minds of Trucknet could provide some explanation as to whether this is a good thing or not?
Ta.