There has been some excellent news this week for people focred to cancel or postpone holidays as a result of coronavirus.
While lockdown continues taking a real holiday is effectively banned - which means when it ends an awful lot of people will look to go on leave at once.
Worse, some companies have said people will have to take half their annual leave in the first six months of the year or they will lose their right to it.
But Martin Lewis has just released some good news - that you shouldn't miss out on your downtime as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
"CONFIRMED: The ability to carry over unused annual leave for up to 2yrs due to working during Covid-19 is for all workers not just key workers," he wrote on Twitter.
"Yes it’s for everyone; technically any firm affected by Covid, but there aren’t many people that doesn’t apply to right now.'"
However, there are some gaps in this provision.
Martin added that furloughed employees are not covered as they are technically not working right now.
Sadly, you might need to time your requests well - or get in first - or you risk having them rejected after lockdown ends.
While the total amount of holiday is enshrined in law, that doesn't mean when you take it is entirely up to you.
"It is a common misconception that employees can take annual leave whenever they want," said Alastair Brown, BrightHR chief technological officer.
"Employers can decline annual leave requests where they have a business reason to do so."
There is also little help for the people being told to go on holiday now, as they are allowed to force you to take holiday at certain times as long as you're given sufficient notice.
You also might need to beat your co-workers, as well as official policies.
"Employers often place a cap on how many employees from each department are able to take annual leave at the same time to ensure service levels are maintained, with this being more important in smaller departments where there are fewer members of staff to cover workplace duties," Brown added.
But while bosses can say no to a specific holiday request, they absolutely can't refuse to let you take leave at all.
In fact, if they do they face quite strict penalties.
"Employees must be permitted to take their minimum leave entitlement as failure to reasonably allow this could result in costly tribunal claims," Brown explained.
That means that as long as you've checked first (and got in ahead of your colleagues) repeated rejections are something you can take up with Acas.
