Holiday hoarding: are you taking all of your annual leave?

With 42% of employees admitting not taking all of their annual leave, employment law expert Caroline Reidy tells Rita deBrun safeguards are needed

According to the latest FRS Recruitment Annual Leave Report, 42 per cent of employees polled did not use up all of their annual leave the previous year. Of those, a substantial 19 per cent left five days or more untaken.

Hoarding is harrowing. For visual artist Andy Warhol, it was time capsules. 600 of them. 

Stuffed with half a million items - one of which was pizza crust. For film-maker Stanley Kubrick, it was thousands of boxes, chock-full of career remnants.