Vacation Leave Letter

• SHARE
• 
• 
• 

Every employee has the right to a little time off from work to go on vacation or take care of personal affairs. However, as a professional, it is an expected and courteous custom to write a formal vacation leave letter to your employers to request your time off. When you take the time to carefully construct a well-written letter to your supervisors several weeks before your planned vacation, they will notice and appreciate your professionalism and efficiency and be more likely to agree to your vacation leave.

Format and Content

The correct vacation leave letter format includes both your address and the recipients Human Resources department.

Sample

This is a vacation leave letter sample written by a long-time employee who has been saving his vacation

days to take a long cruise trip with his wife. He makes sure to send the letter in plenty of time for the necessary paperwork to be put in order. He reminds his employers of his faithful work throughout the year and gives the correct dates of his departure and return while also taking care to write formally with proper grammar.