So I’ve worked/endured my job for 14 crappy months, my boss is a bile-filled fat cesspool of a ***** ice-queen with no capacity for reality or logical scrupples.
She expects me to do jobs that literally (no exaggeration) takes most people 45 minutes to do in 20 minutes and gets angry when I take longer and then I raise the issue to her to try and resolve hostilities.
I have been made to clean ALL the toilets whenever there’s a toilet related job request that comes in, even though there are 2 other people with the same job title as mine and same job outline as mine that can use their legs and arms quite proficiently if they want to.
The list of hatred towards my boss and my job could go on and on but I won’t waste your time with that.
I’m wondering what UK law is about holiday pay if I’ve already used 17 days worth up out of 23 and want to use the last 5 up so I hit my paycheque day and then quit without notice just to annoy my boss severely.
Can they chase me to get it back and can they do so legally?
As I’ve known employers to not pay people who have honestly and forthrightly given their notices in the correct assigned amount of time alotted by their employers, they’ve not used any of their holidays up, and then they didn’t get their entitled holiday back-pay because their ex-employers are assholes.
what do you guys and girls think?
Update:
I already have a job lined up if anybody assumes I’m going to be quitting and living off benefits.
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yes they can chase u leageally
If you leave owing them money they will be perfectly entitled to demand it back and most employers will follow up on this. Why should you have money not due to you? Just because you don’t like your job doesn’t mean it owes you more than your fair share. It is also a bit silly in the present climate to walk off a job when getting another will be no easy task. Isn’t it better to have a job albeit one you do not like than to be living hand to mouth on benefits? Very few people enjoy work and the ones that do are the lucky ones.
You are also going to make it even harder for yourself getting a new job because you are not going to get much of a reference are you if you follow your plan.
Your 23 days is the allowance for the full ‘Holiday Year’ (the timing of which varies a bit from company to company). If you leave the job part way through a holiday year you are only entitled to the pro rata amount of paid holiday time. so if, for instance, your holiday allowance is 23 days and you leave after 6 months, you would only be entitled to 11.5 days. if you had already taken 17 you would owe them for 5.5 days which they would deduct from your final pay packet.
They cannot try to get back any holiday time that you were ‘entitled’ to for the amount of that holiday year, so in the above illustration you were entitled to 11.5 days, they could not take any of that back, but anything over the 11.5 they would take back legally..
PS your posting title refers to sick pay but the question refers to holiday pay.