There has been a lot of debate recently in my company about its plan to introduce a mandatory 2-week period of annual leave on all employees as it believes not doing so could be seen as a failure in its Duty of Care towards its employees. The feared outcome in not enforcing this is an increased risk of workplace related stress claims if the company does not insist on sufficiently long annual leave periods.
There is no planned company-wide shut-down so this is not an operational matter. Just an HR policy to insist that whenever leave is taken, it is done so with at least one 2-week bundle.
I don't want to get into the rights / wrongs of it here, because they are well rehearsed elsewhere. I just want to explore this point. The HR representative claims to not know of any other company that does not enforce this. I think HR need to get out and about more.
So my question is simply this: Apart from what might be forced annual leave for company-wide shut-downs, does your company have a policy of insisting your annual leave be taken with a minimum of one 2-week continuous bundle. I want to understand how widespread this practice might be.
There is no planned company-wide shut-down so this is not an operational matter. Just an HR policy to insist that whenever leave is taken, it is done so with at least one 2-week bundle.
I don't want to get into the rights / wrongs of it here, because they are well rehearsed elsewhere. I just want to explore this point. The HR representative claims to not know of any other company that does not enforce this. I think HR need to get out and about more.
So my question is simply this: Apart from what might be forced annual leave for company-wide shut-downs, does your company have a policy of insisting your annual leave be taken with a minimum of one 2-week continuous bundle. I want to understand how widespread this practice might be.