Employee quits job after being denied time off for the holidays, only for HR to extend their notice period by 30 days without warning: ‘HR can shout all they want’

The thing about contracts is that they are a two-way street and are binding to everyone who signs them, no matter what.

When employees sign a contract with a workplace, it's easy to forget that the workplace is obligated to follow every rule in that contract, just like the employee. Sure, they are the side that pays, and it might feel like they have the upper hand, but that is exactly what a contract is for–to protect either side.

When a company decides to deny its employees any time off, for whatever reason, it is risking their employees' loyalty. If someone feels like they are being treated wrongfully within a workplace, they have every right to turn in their notice whenever they want.

Which is exactly what the employees below did. The company denied their time off for the holidays, claiming no one gets a vacation until their work is complete. So two of the employees decided to look for other jobs and handed in their 30-day notice period, per their contract.

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