Request denied: Black Friday to cause productivity disaster

Employers are rattled by the amount of holiday requests they have received from their staff for 27^th November, or Black Friday as it's more commonly known.

According to Peninsula Business Services, an employment law and HR service, they have been inundated with calls from anxious managers asking how to deal with mass absences. The company received almost 8,000 calls this past weekend alone.

The sheer amount of holiday applications being submitted means that some bosses have had to deny their workers request.

Alan Price, Employment Law Director at Peninsula Business Services, explains the retail sensation, saying: “Black Friday has gone from an American tradition to a western phenomenon, taking the UK by storm last year and set to increase in size this year.