(25 Sep 2023, 7:49 pm)Adrian wrote It doesn't work like that. Whilst an employer has to give you at least the statutory amount of leave, they can tell you when you can and can't use it. In terms of bus operators, I think they all allocate blocks out amongst their workforce for the leave year.
What happens elsewhere, where workers generally have more flexibility over when to take annual leave, is employers will refuse any *new* annual leave requests when a strike is called. It's their prerogative to do so, but they have to ensure you still take the statutory amount of leave in a leave year. Any already booked leave is honoured.
For those new leave requests, unions would not normally challenge this, as it's as bad as scabbing to book annual leave to avoid striking.
What GNE does for those they've already allocated leave to remains to be seen. Of course if someone has one of those leave blocks, and they have no holidays planned, there's nothing stopping them striking and it'd be up to the company to allocate them another block of leave.
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Presumably they'd just cancel the holiday, as long as they give the length of the holiday plus one day it's perfectly allowed.