Holidays

Flashbay's holiday year runs from 1st April to 31st March. Holidays may only be taken which are approved by your Director/Manager and not more than 10 days holiday may be taken consecutively without express approval.

Your holiday entitlement is set out in your employment contract. You are entitled to holiday once you have completed 6 months of continuous employment.

When you join Flashbay your annual holiday entitlement is pro-rated and is calculated by dividing your full annual holiday entitlement by 52 weeks and then multiplying this figure with the actual number of weeks worked within the holiday year. This same calculation is used to determine your pro-rated holiday entitlement if you leave Flashbay.

All applications for holiday must be sent to your team leader/manager. You are entitled to apply for holiday once you have completed 5 months of continuous employment (meaning your holiday can begin after the 6th month of employment).

You should give as much notice as possible of your intention to take holiday, in any case the minimum acceptable notice period is 20 days, and should not make a holiday booking (or other bookings incurring any expense) until your holiday request has been approved.

You cannot carry unused holiday into the following holiday year, however it should be noted that Flashbay offers to pay (pro rata) for unused holiday.

Sales staff procedure on scheduling orders when covering for a colleague

i) An order received from an existing customer of a colleague who is on holiday, should be scheduled in their name

ii) An order received from a lead assigned to a colleague who is on holiday, can either be scheduled in your name or the person who is on holiday. This is left to individual agreements between the 2 sales people prior to the holiday. We suggest that orders should be scheduled in your name if you have done the majority of the work to yield an order.

For all EU sales staff

You follow the public holidays in your respective sales territory. So if there are UK public holidays that are not public holidays in your sales territory you are required to be on duty unless you have been approved for holiday on that day through our normal holiday application procedure.

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS UK

6 April

9 April

7 May

4 June

5 June

27 August

25 December

26 December

1 January

29 March

Total 10 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (UK sales account management and non-sales staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FRANCE

9 April

1 May

8 May

17 May

28 May

15 August

1 November

25 December

1 January

Total 9 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (FRENCH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ITALY

9 April

25 April

1 May

15 August

1 November

25 December

26 December

1 January

Total 8 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (ITALIAN sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS SPAIN

6 April

1 May

15 August

12 October

1 November

6 December

25 December

1 January

29 March

Total 9 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (SPANISH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS NETHERLANDS

9 April

30 April

17 May

28 May

25 December

26 December

1 January

Total 7 full days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (DUTCH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS SWEDEN

6 April

9 April

1 May

17 May

6 June

25 December

26 December

1 January

29 March

Total 9 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (SWEDISH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS DENMARK

5 April

6 April

9 April

4 May

17 May

28 May

5 June

25 December

26 December

1 January

28 March

29 March

Total 12 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (DANISH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS NORWAY

5 April

6 April

9 April

1 May

17 May

28 May

25 December

26 December

31 December

1 January

28 March

29 March

Total 12 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (DANISH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FINLAND

6 April

9 April

1 May

17 May

6 December

25 December

26 December

1 January

29 March

Total 9 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (FINNISH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS POLAND

9 April

1 May

3 May

7 June

15 August

1 November

25 December

26 December

1 January

Total 9 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (POLISH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS HUNGARY

9 April

1 May

28 May

20 August

23 October

1 November

25 December

26 December

1 January

15 March

Total 10 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (HUNGARIAN sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS CZECH REPUBLIC

9 April

1 May

8 May

5 July

6 July

28 September

24 December

25 December

26 December

1 January

Total 10 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (CZECH sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS GERMANY

6 April

9 April

1 May - does not cover all territories

17 May

28 May

7 June - does not cover all territories

15 August - does not cover all territories

3 October - does not cover all territories

1 November - does not cover all territories

23 November

25 December

26 December

1 March

29 March

Total 10 days covering all territories in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (ALL GERMAN sales account management staff are off duty on the above days covering all territories) Total 5 days NOT covering all territories in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (Please check with your team leader whether you are required to work on the above days NOT covering all territories)

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS USA

28 May

4 July

3 September

12 November

22 November

23 November

24 December

25 December

26 December

31 December

1 January

18 February

Total 12 days in the holiday year 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013 (USA sales account management staff are off duty on the above days)