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our company is forcing us to use 3 floating rest days.. is that legal??

Are they paying you to rest?

my company forces me to take holidays in August and at Xmas, every year, (plant shutdown) and it's all nice an legal (Big OEM)

They may need to call it something else. If they don't use the right wording, they will be in trouble, you can go to the labour board, and they will pay not only for your time, but damages too. It's all very tricky for the employer, but advantageous to the employee.

Obviously, every country, province, state, etc has different terms and laws, but the principles are the same. Inform yourself by calling the appropriate labour people at the government.

I give myself rest days all the time. Of course, as an employer, I have no way of getting paid for it!!

There's two alternatives, use rest days if you have any left... OR take unpaid authorised absence and spread the cost over 3 months, ie. 1 day each month.

Our gripe is we want to take the unpaid leave and keep our rest days.

Two days after redundacy has finished they batter us with this one.

I really need a new job, out of automotive!

just a thought, wot about talking to trade union people?

they can do directed holidays, so long as they give you twice as much notice as the period you have off. Ie 6 days notice in this case.

yes they can. We had it at our factory during a SAP upgrade.

My contract says I must save 5 days holiday to be taken at a time of the companies choosing, Usually Christmas. Mostly they pick the 3 days between Christmas and New Year, but they reserve the right to pick 2 other days. In the factory, their holidays rights are much less, being forced to take 1 whole week and 1 fortnight in blocks out of the remaining days, at dates of the employee's choosing.

I'd be quite annoyed (euphemism) if my boss told me that I had to take 3 days off at the companies choosing, though if there were mitigating circumstances, I might understand.

i tell my 2 lads to have 2 weeks at christmas and one week in september off, that leaves 2 weeks for them to choose. But i do let them take unlimited holidays unpaid if they want more!

My company is part closing for two weeks and making everyone take those two weeks unpaid. My problem is that i am staff and on a salary, but because i get paid weekly they say i dont qualify for my wages.

Speak to your trade union representative. Our shop is Amicus-AEEU heavily unionised. Management dont get away with much.

It depends what is specified in your contract of employment. I'm in IT (yawn) on a personal contract which does not specify I must save some lave to fill the blanks at christmas but the company try every year to say 'you must save 3 days hols for christmas' it has been challenged many times and proven to be 'illegal', un enforcable, is probably a better description.

Stupid thing is, if they said nowt, the majority of people would book it anyway.