Where I work we get 1 lieu day for every 5 days worked away from home. The idea is when you get back you take them to "recover" from your work away but as to when you get to take them is at the companies discretion.
Last year I pretty much worked away 5 months solid and collected quite a few lieu days
We have been taken over by a new company who has told meI will sell 20 of my days and all lieu days will be taken at the end of the year or be lost.
At present I am still on my old contract from the original company and I have now refused to sell my days back at the flat rate of 8 hours pay per day.
They money is not the issue I want the time off but the new company will not allow this as it is a "debt" they do not owe so want the original company to pay us off.
My contract says nothing about having to sell back lieu days or that they expire.
Am I doing the right thing standing my ground and refusing to sell my days?
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