So it's too much for a grown adult to manage their own holiday time without having their hand held?
I'm well aware of the implications, responsibility and costs of been an employer, but thank you for pointing them out.
I encourage holiday to be taken, but I cannot force them to take it.
Use it or lose it ought to be encouragement enough to organize ones time sufficiently to use it up before April.
Should someone of used their entitlement and find themselves in a situation in say March then talk to me and I'll facilitate bringing some holiday forward.
Years ago we used to roll it over, but it was still never taken, to a point where if they did, I'd be short staffed for weeks.
There are times in winter when it's quiet enough that we're doing fill in jobs, which always gets done one way or another, but it's a time of relatively low productivity. ie a good time for holiday.
It's not been 'mean as feck' as you delicately put it. It's running a business and expecting grown adults to be able to decide for themselves when to take their annual leave. I have never once refused a request for holiday, and there's only a small proportion of the year when I'd rather they didn't take it.
One thing overlooked by many employed people is what they actually cost their employer per hour of actual work. It's a lot more than their rate of pay.
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