Employment law - Time off and holidays

Failure to return from holiday letterIf an employee fails to return from holiday on time and you're unable to make contact with them by telephone to establish what's going on, write asking them to clarify whether or not they have resigned and, if not, ... Read more

Letter recrediting holidayUse our letter when an employee falls sick either just before or during a period of pre-booked annual leave and they've both complied with your sickness absence reporting procedures and produced relevant evidence of their inc... Read more

Request to buy or sell holiday formWhere you have implemented a policy enabling staff to potentially buy or sell a proportion of their annual leave entitlement, issue our form to them to enable them to put in their requests for the forthcoming holida... Read more

Deferral of jury service letterYou can use our deferral of jury service letter to write to the court in support of an employee's application for deferral of jury service, or to be excused from jury service, where the reasons for the application are wo... Read more

Holiday request formIt's important that employees know how they should request annual leave. Having a formal system in place which involves the employee completing a holiday request form means that everyone knows where they stand in terms of whether a... Read more

Time off in lieu formUse our time off in lieu form to enable your employees to keep records of all time off in lieu accrued and then taken. Ensure they are aware that the form needs to be countersigned by their line manager each time that time off in... Read more