Taking time off work during school holidays

olias

Is it well known that you are having a relationship with this colleague? If so and especially if it has been that way for a while, why not appeal to your bosses better nature (if they have one!)

Explain that would really like the oppotunity to go away on holiday with them and your (their?) children. Ask if there is any way the company could manage with you both away by say, getting ahead in your work in the previous couple of weeks and clearing any workloads you have

If you don't ask, then you won't know

Olias

getmore4less

paulwf wrote: »

Legal minimum holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks, i.e. 28 days if full time.

Lets assume 8 days are taken off by everybody for bank holidays which is perfectly normal. Therefore everyone has 20 days i.e. 4 weeks holiday left. 15 staff times 4 weeks is 60 weeks of staff holidays in a 52 week year. Therefore there has to be a time when there is an overlap in holidays!

Although there isn't any right to a particular week off, with advance planning (which you are giving) any well run company with 15 staff should be ok with 2 off at a time. That is providing you aren't working for a company that is seasonal i.e. sees an upturn in business during school holidays.

That makes a lot of assumptions, in many companies much larger than this there will be some rolls where there is little duplication and cover could be comprimised with people taking time off together.

Delboy24

You have the right to parental leave if you:

• have been employed by the same company for a year or more
• are an 'employee', with a contract of employment (most agency and casual staff don't have the right to parental leave)

and you:

• are a parent named on the child's birth certificate or
• are named on the child's adoption certificate or
• have legal parental responsibility for a child under five (18 if disabled)

Either parent has the right to parental leave. If you're separated and you don’t live with the children, you have the right to parental leave if you keep formal parental responsibility for the children.

Foster parents do not have rights to parental leave.


You can take a total of up 13 weeks' parental leave for each of your children up until their fifth birthday.

Deciding to take parental leave


The purpose of parental leave is to care for your child. This means looking after their welfare and could include making arrangements for the good of your child.
Caring for a child does not necessarily mean being with the child 24 hours a day. Parental leave might be taken simply to enable you to spend more time with your young child. Examples of the way parental leave might be used include:

• spending more time with your child in their early years
• accompanying your child during a stay in hospital
• looking at new schools
• settling your child into new childcare arrangements
• enabling your family to spend more time together, for example, taking your child to stay with grandparents

You can take parental leave immediately after your maternity, paternity or adoption leave providing you give the correct notice.

Parental leave schemes

Wherever possible, employers and employees should make their own agreements about how parental leave will work in a workplace, but if this is not possible the following 'fallback scheme' applies automatically. The terms of your workplace agreement cannot be less favourable than the fallback scheme.


Always check your contract of employment or staff handbooks for your employers own parental leave scheme, this could offer you special arrangements that are better than the fallback scheme (for example, you might be able to take parental leave even if you've worked there for less than a year or if you are the grandparents, step-parents or long term foster parent of the child).

The fallback scheme

One week blocks

You must take your leave in blocks of full weeks, so if you want time off in odd days - for example, to take your child to the dentist - you should ask your employer if you can work flexibly or use your holiday allowance.
A week is based on your usual working pattern. So if you work Mondays and Tuesdays only, a week would be two days or if you work Monday – Friday, a week would be five days.

You can't take more than four weeks' leave for any one child in a year.
For these purposes, a year starts when you become eligible for parental leave (either when the child is born, or when you have worked for your employer continuously for one year, which ever comes later)

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

Delboy24 wrote: »

You have the right to parental leave if you:

• have been employed by the same company for a year or more
• are an 'employee', with a contract of employment (most agency and casual staff don't have the right to parental leave)

and you:

• are a parent named on the child's birth certificate or
• are named on the child's adoption certificate or
• have legal parental responsibility for a child under five (18 if disabled)

Either parent has the right to parental leave. If you're separated and you don’t live with the children, you have the right to parental leave if you keep formal parental responsibility for the children.

Foster parents do not have rights to parental leave.


You can take a total of up 13 weeks' parental leave for each of your children up until their fifth birthday.

Deciding to take parental leave


The purpose of parental leave is to care for your child. This means looking after their welfare and could include making arrangements for the good of your child.

Caring for a child does not necessarily mean being with the child 24 hours a day. Parental leave might be taken simply to enable you to spend more time with your young child. Examples of the way parental leave might be used include:

• spending more time with your child in their early years
• accompanying your child during a stay in hospital
• looking at new schools
• settling your child into new childcare arrangements
• enabling your family to spend more time together, for example, taking your child to stay with grandparents

You can take parental leave immediately after your maternity, paternity or adoption leave providing you give the correct notice.

Parental leave schemes

Wherever possible, employers and employees should make their own agreements about how parental leave will work in a workplace, but if this is not possible the following 'fallback scheme' applies automatically. The terms of your workplace agreement cannot be less favourable than the fallback scheme.


Always check your contract of employment or staff handbooks for your employers own parental leave scheme, this could offer you special arrangements that are better than the fallback scheme (for example, you might be able to take parental leave even if you've worked there for less than a year or if you are the grandparents, step-parents or long term foster parent of the child).

The fallback scheme

One week blocks

You must take your leave in blocks of full weeks, so if you want time off in odd days - for example, to take your child to the dentist - you should ask your employer if you can work flexibly or use your holiday allowance.
A week is based on your usual working pattern. So if you work Mondays and Tuesdays only, a week would be two days or if you work Monday – Friday, a week would be five days.

You can't take more than four weeks' leave for any one child in a year.
For these purposes, a year starts when you become eligible for parental leave (either when the child is born, or when you have worked for your employer continuously for one year, which ever comes later)

Why exactly have you posted this?

Its irrelevant to the question

SomeBozo

robram2 wrote: »

Guess one of us will have to pull a sickie for a week. lol.

I have a prediction.

In October on returning to work after his "sickie" and a "lol" the OP will be suspended.

Then they will create a new post in here entitled "Can they do this?!?"

Bozo