An employee has an excessive accrual if they have more than 8 weeks' annual leave (10 weeks for a continuous shiftworker). Either party may seek to confer and genuinely try to agree how to reduce it. If that fails, the employer may direct in writing that leave be taken, but a direction has no effect if it would leave under 6 weeks accrued, cannot require blocks of less than 1 week, must start between 8 weeks and 12 months after the direction, and must be consistent with agreed arrangements; the employee may still request leave as if not directed. Where the employer will not confer or agree and the accrual has been excessive for more than 6 months without a sufficient direction, the employee may give written notice requiring leave on the same limits, up to 4 weeks (5 for a shiftworker) in 12 months, and the employer must grant it.
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