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How many holidays can i buy?

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GavinC85
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How many holidays can i buy?

Post by GavinC85 »

I'm looking to buy as many holidays as possible for next year as P&L is tiring me to f**k, is 6 weeks the most i can buy? if i get that how much each week will come out my wages? the coach says i have to wait till jan to buy them.
tony2
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

Post by tony2 »

6 weeks is the max not sure how much extra per week you would have to pay union should know:wave
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You can buy leave to make it a maximum of 6 weeks - Our manager was passing the forms round last week so no earliest date as far as I know, but the cut off is generally February.
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Post by k979aaa »

I think it is about 3% or 5% depending how long you have been there and may be more if you are part time.
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I am a 25 hour contract and pay just over £7 a week to pay upto 6 weeks.
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

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buy the extra 7.5 days and it will cost you 3% of your weekly wage ( 6 weeks holiday )
buy the extra 5 days and it will cost you 2% of your weekly pay ( 5 1/2 weeks holiday )
buy the extra 2.5 days and it will cost you 1% of your weekly pay ( 5 weeks holiday )


I knew I posted it somewhere before.
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

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GavinC85 wrote:I'm looking to buy as many holidays as possible for next year as P&L is tiring me to f**k, is 6 weeks the most i can buy? if i get that how much each week will come out my wages? the coach says i have to wait till jan to buy them.
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

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doorstepped wrote:buy the extra 7.5 days and it will cost you 3% of your weekly wage ( 6 weeks holiday )
buy the extra 5 days and it will cost you 2% of your weekly pay ( 5 1/2 weeks holiday )
buy the extra 2.5 days and it will cost you 1% of your weekly pay ( 5 weeks holiday )


I knew I posted it somewhere before.
Anyone know how this works for PT who do less days but longer hours per shift, for example 22.5 hour contract over 3 days per week or 30 hours over 4 days? As in, would they be buying another 1.5 weeks off, rather than just over 2 and just under 2 weeks respectively?
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

Post by fishtank »

IloveMYredTROLLEY! wrote:
doorstepped wrote:buy the extra 7.5 days and it will cost you 3% of your weekly wage ( 6 weeks holiday )
buy the extra 5 days and it will cost you 2% of your weekly pay ( 5 1/2 weeks holiday )
buy the extra 2.5 days and it will cost you 1% of your weekly pay ( 5 weeks holiday )


I knew I posted it somewhere before.
Anyone know how this works for PT who do less days but longer hours per shift, for example 22.5 hour contract over 3 days per week or 30 hours over 4 days? As in, would they be buying another 1.5 weeks off, rather than just over 2 and just under 2 weeks respectively?
It's converted into hours now anyway so if you were on 30hrs and buying a week and a half you would just buy 45hrs.
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Noctua
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

Post by Noctua »

True blue terrier is there an actual name or code number for these holiday sheets? If there is, i can ask specifically for my managers to print one off. They never hand them out or seem to know anything about them anymore or how to get hold of them :arrrghhh Thanks in advance
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Re: How many holidays can i buy?

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Purchase of additional annual holiday form - Holiday year 2013/14 - Royal Mail Group

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