POAL

[hero22]

Has anyone heard any further updates on POAL ? HR told me about discussions taking place, our manager seems clueless apart from he won’t allow anyone to book the 6th week for 2026/27 holidays unless your length of service entitles you to 6 weeks.

Seems discussions between company and union on any topic take a fecking eternity to sort out

[yellowbelly]

Has anyone heard any further updates on POAL ? HR told me about discussions taking place, our manager seems clueless apart from he won’t allow anyone to book the 6th week for 2026/27 holidays unless your length of service entitles you to 6 weeks.

Seems discussions between company and union on any topic take a fecking eternity to sort out

Answer is no. I'm sure there'll be an announcement from RM and CWU when a way forward is identified. Neither RM nor CWU can sanction something that would potentially break the NLW rules.

[rogersh]

This was a response from HR 0n 06/01/2026

Thanks for getting back to us.

You can still apply for any POAL you want via your manager but it wont show on your 2026/2027 leave card as the Business and Unions are currently in discussions on a way forward for this.

Our intention is to be able to update further in the coming weeks.

Hoping this helps with your enquiry

[N|M]

Do they include supplements and other payments as your wage or is it just the basic wage ?

[ted_e_bear]

Do they include supplements and other payments as your wage or is it just the basic wage ?

Iirc that's been brought up/pointed out previously and the answer was no it's only your basic

[N|M]

Sure it would be easy to add something to pay slips that did the maths:

Basic hr wage
Minus, ( - )
Min wage,
Times, ( x )
Contracted hr's,
Equals ( = ) available money to spend on salary sacrifice.

For someone on 35 hrs they need around £15 per week for 2 extra weeks under POAL