Leaving job but have 2 months holidays built up.

[Frank Grimes]

Hi,

Want to pack in my job but have about two months holidays built up.

Ideally I would like to give notice that I intend to leave and give 4 weeks notice of my intention to take whatever holidays I have remaining with employment ending in 3 months time.

Is this acceptable? What I would not like to happen is the boss telling me to work the 4 weeks, collect my P45 and any holidays not taken will be cashed in and added to the last payslip? (If that is legally possible).

 

[Purple]

To be clear you want to give 4 weeks notice and take 4 weeks holidays to cover your notice period so in practice you would just finish up the say you tell them you are leaving?
If this is the case then if you arrange to take your holidays and give notice the day they are to start those holidays then I don't think there is much that they can do. Don't expect your P45 in a hurry or a good reference though.

 

[Frank Grimes]

No you are not clear. I want to give 4 weeks notice of my intention to take holidays i.e. work 4 weeks then from that date I will take paid leave of two months with employment being terminated when the leave expires.

 

[Nige]

Hi,



Is this acceptable? What I would not like to happen is the boss telling me to work the 4 weeks, collect my P45 and any holidays not taken will be cashed in and added to the last payslip? (If that is legally possible).

How is this different from taking the accrued holidays and being paid for them?

 

[Purple]

No you are not clear. I want to give 4 weeks notice of my intention to take holidays i.e. work 4 weeks then from that date I will take paid leave of two months with employment being terminated when the leave expires.

I'm with Nige.

 

[moondance]

I'd presume the poster would be taxed heavily on the 2 months holidays if he got them added to his payslip instead of actually taking them?

OP - do you get paid weekly? If so you only need to give one week's notice andif monthly you should give a month's notice. So why don't you take your 2 months hols now and then when you come back give in your notice and work the month (or week) required?

 

[Nige]

OP - do you get paid weekly? If so you only need to give one week's notice andif monthly you should give a month's notice. So why don't you take your 2 months hols now and then when you come back give in your notice and work the month (or week) required?

this isn't necessarily true. The notice period may be set out in the employment contract and may be much longer.

As for the additional tax hit on getting paid two months' holidays up front, this tax overpayment can be reclaimed using a form P50 at the end of the first and second months.

 

[JPW]

Handy thread peeps. So just to make sure I understand how this works. If I give a month's notice and have holiday left to take, standard practice is that I get cash in lieu of the remaining days? Might work out OK for me if that's the case.

Wish we were talking 2 months in my case but there you go . . .