Holiday woes. Inflexible employer?

consumers_revenge

Again someone missed the point. I didnt say just cause he has no kids he shouldnt want the time off...

I swapping a day with him during these holidays already lol

Did the government say we want to make work pay ( or something similar ) Im happy to struggle and be as flexible as poss but want to know if push came to shove if I had a gueniune greivence etc

KiKi

OP, I haven't read all the replies, so apologies if repeating others.

You have a right to ask for the leave; the employer does not have to grant it. They may be being difficult (rather than accommodating), but they are within their rights to refuse.

I appreciate that it may feel unfair, or feel discriminatory, but there's no legal basis for discrimination against 'parents'. (If there were, I'm sure plenty of parents and non-parents would be claiming for feeling unfairly treated on both sides!)

The best you can hope for is to put forward a good, reasoned, polite and constructive argument to your employer, explaining why you need it, the flexibility you're prepared to give in return (in covering others for holiday, for example), and hope for the best.

Sorry
KiKi

consumers_revenge

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Could you answer my question then?

Nevermind, this wasnt meant to cause 2 pages of discussion. :rotfl:

consumers_revenge

KiKi wrote: »

OP, I haven't read all the replies, so apologies if repeating others.

You have a right to ask for the leave; the employer does not have to grant it. They may be being difficult (rather than accommodating), but they are within their rights to refuse.

I appreciate that it may feel unfair, or feel discriminatory, but there's no legal basis for discrimination against 'parents'. (If there were, I'm sure plenty of parents and non-parents would be claiming for feeling unfairly treated on both sides!)

The best you can hope for is to put forward a good, reasoned, polite and constructive argument to your employer, explaining why you need it, the flexibility you're prepared to give in return (in covering others for holiday, for example), and hope for the best.

Sorry
KiKi

A voice of reason...you should have been my first poster, thats all I was after. :T

Person_one

consumers_revenge wrote: »

Again someone missed the point. I didnt say just cause he has no kids he shouldnt want the time off...

I swapping a day with him during these holidays already lol

Did the government say we want to make work pay ( or something similar ) Im happy to struggle and be as flexible as poss but want to know if push came to shove if I had a gueniune greivence etc

You said "My boss has no kids so not an issue re school hols for him."

I felt I should point out that the one doesn't always follow the other.

(BTW this forum doesn't exist to tell people what they want to hear )

hcb42

this kind of pattern would never work in any department I have ran recently.

The school holidays are dominated by those with children. I have never had a holiday week in Aug in over 20 years. But we wouldnt allow people to dip in a day here and there as it prevents anyone else from having the week off, and that was with a dept of 8 in my most recent job. We encouraged people to book full weeks as far as possible, perhaps keeping a week back for odd days here and there throughout the year.

ILW

consumers_revenge wrote: »

BTW Im not demanding the right to be off, just asking if there would be a case should it ever come up.

Your header claimed discrimination. Trivial claims like that make it less likely to be tackled on the real cases.

consumers_revenge

If it did I would be asking for a creche :-)

paddedjohn

consumers_revenge wrote: »

A voice of reason...you should have been my first poster, thats all I was after. :T

did you even read my post? short yes, but to the point

consumers_revenge

Yes post 4 was meant to be the reply.

If you feel you missed out then theres a thanks on yours too