Time off Work For Wedding

birdoo2

Hi

I am getting married in July and am planning a 4 week Honeymoon. I am hoping to take 5 weeks off in total for before and after day. I have 17 annual days leave left.

Do many companies extra paid leave to people getting married? Any help would be appreciated.

Sleipnir

No, they don't. You could take unpaid leave but I've never heard of a company giving an extra 8 days paid holidays just because you're getting married.

homeOwner

My company gives 3 extra days holidays the year you get married but our holidays are limited to 3 weeks at a time with manager approval.

galah

we're getting 3 days paid marriage leave as well.

Manager won't allow unpaid extended leave though...However, we also have the option to purchase 10 extra days through our benefits arrangement.
(this year, due to various fortunate events, I have 37 days of holidays in total. Nice.)

Sizzler

birdoo2 wrote: »

Hi

I am getting married in July and am planning a 4 week Honeymoon. I am hoping to take 5 weeks off in total for before and after day. I have 17 annual days leave left.

Do many companies extra paid leave to people getting married? Any help would be appreciated.

You are probably going to get a mix of answers here, why dont you just ask your employer? Doesnt matter if 90% of people get 2 free weeks off, its your employer who makes the call, not the people on here....

bensoneb

Hi Bird002,

Firstly congratulations . Secondly, it's no harm to gather as much information as you can about other companies so that you know what the norm might be. Personally I got 2 days off from my company and the rest was out of my annual allowance.

From talking to other people, I think alot of companies do allow extended leave, paid or unpaid especially for weddings. Good luck!

bluebell1

I get an extra week paid leave to take around the time of my wedding:D

John Mason

my company gives 5 extra days when you married

which personally i think is a disgrace

Toots

I get 10 extra days annual leave for getting married.

bangersandmash

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

my company gives 5 extra days when you married

which personally i think is a disgrace

Do you mean a disgrace as in too little or too much?

I'm shocked that companies give any paid leave for weddings beyond standard holidays. It's especially surprising considering the difficulties many men have in getting paternity leave.

John Mason

bangersandmash wrote: »

Do you mean a disgrace as in too little or too much?

I'm shocked that companies give any paid leave for weddings beyond standard holidays. It's especially surprising considering the difficulties many men have in getting paternity leave.

I think it is terrible that just because you are getting married you get an extra 5 days paid leave.

how is discreminary is that ?

Saint_Mel

I'm getting married later this year and was just told that our company policy is to give the choice of 1 weeks extra pay or 5 extra days annual leave.
I wasnt expecting anything else and had already booked annual leave for the honeymoon as normal holidays so I wa delighted to get the extra time off.

Eoin

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

I think it is terrible that just because you are getting married you get an extra 5 days paid leave.

how is discreminary is that ?

Terrible seems a bit strong. What would you get out of it if they stopped that practise?

@birdoo2 - this seems really obvious, but do make sure you account for the August bank holiday, if that's during your honeymoon. It's easy to forget that.

My last company gave me 2 days I think.