Not allowed to take holidays

brightspark

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/act/20/section/19/enacted/en/html#sec19

"(3) The annual leave of an employee who works 8 or more months in a leave year shall, subject to the provisions of any employment regulation order, registered employment agreement, collective agreement or any agreement between the employee and his or her employer, include an unbroken period of 2 weeks."

cdeb

The exceptions to that are quite broad though - as the quoted paragraph shows.

Usually a company will only insist on it as an anti-fraud measure, as Tomw86 said. Builders' holidays would be another exception.

In any event, the employee in the OP is being allowed, it seems, to take two weeks' leave in August.

So everything seems to be above board from the employer's point of view

Cakerbaker

brightspark wrote: »

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/act/20/section/19/enacted/en/html#sec19

"(3) The annual leave of an employee who works 8 or more months in a leave year shall, subject to the provisions of any employment regulation order, registered employment agreement, collective agreement or any agreement between the employee and his or her employer, include an unbroken period of 2 weeks."

Would “subject to the provisions of any” ..... “agreement between the employee and his or her employer” not mean that an employee can decide to not take 2 consecutive weeks as long as their employer agrees

cdeb

It would, yes

brightspark

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/act/20/section/20/enacted/en/html

Basically all holidays are determined by the employer, subject to sufficient notice etc., all as laid down in the act.