Just wondering if anyone has any experience in the following or knows the rules behind it.
Long story short we had a wedding we were meant to attend in Easter but got cancelled due to Carona and it has now been moved to January but company is not allowing anyone to take leave in December or January. Is this allowed?
Work is only part-time
Work Not Allowing Leave
Klopps and Robbers on 27/05/2020 - 11:30
Last edited 27/05/2020 - 11:42
Last edited 27/05/2020 - 11:42
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I'm not sure there is a 'standard' way for leave to be handled across businesses. What does your employment contract say? Most likely something along the line that the timing of leave is to be mutually agreed upon.
Did you outline the circumstances of your leave request?On a related topic, a lot of businesses don't allow for leave accruals beyond 12 months, and a lot of people are not (yet) taking leave, so those businesses will either have a large percentage of their staff wanting leave within a short timeframe, or they will need to be more flexible.
Leave Blackout periods are common and very much allowed
in Retail for example, its common for Nov/Dec/Jan to be no leave periods
And in finance and the tertiary education sector
And some businesses enforce mandatory leave at the end of year period
Check your employment contract or award scheme. Too many variables here including unknown business structure.
Eg. I am aware that in some cases of retail, if the whole team is rostered, it's not uncommon for companies to be a bit more strict during the Christmas and New Year periods due to (in normal times) increased shopping activity.
Generally they have to plan holidays over this period (in some cases) a year in advance to manage the rosters.
This is the case with every retail position I've worked and I assume it's similar for hospitality.
Depending on how long you are wanting to be away you may suggest working around it. For example you may be able to swap rostered weekends with someone else. You may be able to work 6 days a week, the week before and after. You may be able to work overtime over Christmas and bank the time in lieu.
Both you and the workplace may have to be a little flexible to overcome this.
Simple Answer = Yes it's allowed
Sure it's allowed and is common. Factories have shutdowns that make people take holidays at that time. I used to work for a company that required us to take leave at christmas (if we didn't have any we could 'buy' extra leave).
It really depends on the award/contract/agreement you work under and the business requirements.
How is it possible that after all of these months, and all of the media stories in our face everyday, that you don’t know how to spell Corona?
Same could be said / asked about you capitalising it.
The same could be asked about omitting the word ‘the’ at the start of your sentence.
But it's not the same, and it won't.
same reason every second person on OZB puts advise instead of advice
Same with your sentence structure; should read
How is it possible that after all these months, and all the media stories in our face every day, that you still don't know how to spell corona?
Same with your lack of colon; should read: ‘should read:’
Worry about your own grammar first before picking on punctuation (your sentence is missing a full stop at the end, by the way, if you want to play that card).
@kerfuffle: I guess you’re not getting the problem with your glass house? It’s pretty much the same issue as my glass house. Ironically you’re missing proper punctuation (including a full stop, in your post telling me that I’m missing a full stop).
What sort of company do you work for? Have you spoken to your direct manager yet? Is there a internal process for asking for an exception? If the no leave between Dec-Jan is a general rule then there might be exceptions especially if you have accrued more than 4 weeks of leave.
If you only have to go interstate, can you just take the day of the wedding and maybe the day after off? You might miss out on some post wedding stuff but maybe you could figure something like that out?
If you are able to work remotely, maybe you can do that for the other days?
Lot of questions in the comments above, but no responses from OP.
We don't even know why they need to take leave to attend a wedding (is it a weekend?, is it located elsewhere?, is it their own wedding?).Most ceremonies only take 30 minutes or so.
Call in sick on the day - accept any repercussions if discovered
Anyone having a destination wedding should accept that some people will just not be able to attend.
I find myself in the complete opposite situation.
As a General Manager of the company I have today been been told by accounts/HR and the owners I MUST take leave from next week.
I replied that I had no issue taking leave however next week did not suit due to child care arrangements and school drop off. In addition I had less than a weeks notice. Their response was it was forced leave and basically too bad that they were well within their rights to do so.
No issue taking leave it was more the way they have gone about it.
Why the neg? Care to elaborate?
Probably HR reading your comment ;)
In some situations, critical work loads etc., an employer is entitled to refuse leave to an employee.
Do you belong to a union? Working under an award?
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave/taking-annual…