Is Your Business Ready For Holiday Season?

Summer’s Coming!

With holiday season creeping around the corner, it’s worth taking a moment to think about how your company will manage the holiday season. Don’t get caught off guard by unexpected requests or a dis-organised process, get yourself in the best shape to sail through the summer period by thinking about the following do’s and don’ts:

Do’s!

• Do encourage staff to submit dates for their holiday as far in advance as possible.
• Do remind employees periodically how much annual leave they have outstanding.
• Do ensure that holiday leave is planned in such a way that the department has adequate cover at all times.
• Do review regularly whether or not employees have taken, or at least planned to take, some of their holiday leave.
• Do ask any employee who has not taken any holiday or submitted any holiday dates by for example the middle of the holiday year to nominate holiday dates as a matter of urgency.
• Do be proactive in the management of holiday.

Don’ts!

• Don’t take the view that it is up to each individual to decide whether or not they want to take holiday.
• Don’t give in to employees’ requests for pay in lieu of holiday.
• Don’t leave the matter of holiday to chance.
• Don’t wait until near the end of the holiday year before reviewing whether or not employees have taken all their holiday.
• Don’t make staff feel guilty about taking holiday.
• Don’t panic if you’ve lost your way – contact us here at Totally HR for some help and guidance to get you back on track!