One of our sales teams is particularly quite over the Christmas and New Year period and we wish to make it policy that they take annual leave over this period. This would consist of 5 days, leaving them 18 days that they can take when they wish. The rest of our sales force operates as normal over the holiday season and therefore we do not intend to impose set holidays on them.

I am unsure if we are able to do this. I know that a company can impose set annual leave over a shutdown period. As this is not a complete shutdown of the company, where do we stand? The sales teams are very different so moving them into another team over the holiday period is not an option.

Thanks

Fiona

Fiona Morgan