4possm:jonathan18:The company I work for now, we have a staff member that had so much accrued A/L that we had to force him to take off 1 day every week to run it down because he didn't want to take holidays.afe66: Can't see why they can't pay out more than a week if correct. Maybe to stop employers not giving leave just more cash..
In my case, I didn't really want the leave forced on me, partner working so either I go on holiday by myself or stay at home getting bored after couple of weeks.
They offered the cash and I accepted it.
Previous job similar thing happened. Good thing for bank balance, probably not for work life balance.
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The reality is a good employer shouldn't let a leave balance reach anything like these proportions - not just for their own bottom line (the liability of such pay-outs) but also it's their responsibilty to ensure they find someone else to do the job in your absence, and it's clearly poor future planning if they don't have a suitable backup plan in place should you leave or be sick/injured (or fill in when on leave).
My other concern, as someone highly supportive of worker's rights, is that that it's really poor practice by the company to not ensure their employees take (regular) leave from their job, which is important for so many reasons (health, stress, family relationships...). Wow, the practices that firms get away with in the private sector...
He now has every Wednesday off for the next 2 years.
Ha - that is excellent!
I used to borrow from next year usually so was almost always in arrears. I always wondered what it would be like to use it to have 1 day off a week instead. I never managed to not go on holiday enough to make it work though.