Managing people during the holiday season

As holiday season approaches many employers will be managing multiple requests for annual leave and this can present challenges for employers. How do you manage holiday requests when multiple people ask for time off at the same time? Here are some practical tips around managing the holiday season.

• As an employer you should make it clear what is expected of employees when intending to take time off work. Create absence policies to cover how planned absence is handled.   

• Operating a first come, first served policy around holiday requests is usually the fairest way to manage a situation where multiple employees might want to take holiday at the same time.

• You may need to set limits on the number of employees who can take leave at the same time.

• If you have periods of time when the company closes and you would like employees to take holiday over that period, make this clear in your absence policies and give plenty of notice, for example the time between Christmas and New Year.

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