Moving House OH Been refused time off...!!

frugallass

look after yourself tomorrow - and make sure you have plenty of bubble bath and a glass of wine !

JoJoArmani

frugallass wrote: »

look after yourself tomorrow - and make sure you have plenty of bubble bath and a glass of wine !

Is a bottle of wine ok? lol!

frugallass

even better !:rotfl:

AMILLIONDOLLARS

I bet its Sainsburys!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

Nikki

AMILLIONDOLLARS wrote: »

I bet its Sainsburys!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

I was thinking the same thing myself!! They're not so bad if you only work part time.

confused31_2

Just tell your husband to phone up friday morning and say he has got no one to look after the babies and he will exercising his right to parental leave.

You are allowed 13 weeks unpaid leave as long as your children are under the age of 5, just tell him to explain that there is no one to look after the babies.

ive just seen he works for a supermarket so they know the crack with parental leave and they will not be able to stop him having the time off, just tell him to say hes got no one to look after the babies and that he will using it as emergency parental leave.

They wont be able to say anything or do anything, but he probably wont be paid for the time off.

Ive used it loads of time at my place of work, as his employer should know what hes entitled to, i just ask for time off, then if they turn it down, i just say i will have it as parental leave, then they tend to let you have it off as they know the law.

The basics of parental leave

If you've worked for the same employer for a year you can take:

• 13 weeks off work (in total, not per year) for each child, up to their fifth birthday (or up to five years after the placement date of an adopted child)
• 18 weeks for each disabled child, up to the child's 18th birthday

Are you entitled to parental leave?

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)

hope this helps confused

nevadagirl

Definitely bet it's the aforementioned supermarket (their name is like swearing in our house) - I used to be a manager for them and we were told never to arrange anything for after work any day we were scheduled to be there as there was no guarantee we would get away before the shop closed. In a 24 hour branch :rotfl: The more reasonable the need for time off (bereavement, urgent medical treatment, childbirth), the less likely you were to get it.

Having said all that, the visit might go really well and your OH get away quickly if his boss is in a good mood. Good luck with the move and let us know how you get on.

confused31_2

nevadagirl wrote: »

Definitely bet it's the aforementioned supermarket (their name is like swearing in our house) - I used to be a manager for them and we were told never to arrange anything for after work any day we were scheduled to be there as there was no guarantee we would get away before the shop closed. In a 24 hour branch :rotfl: The more reasonable the need for time off (bereavement, urgent medical treatment, childbirth), the less likely you were to get it.

Having said all that, the visit might go really well and your OH get away quickly if his boss is in a good mood. Good luck with the move and let us know how you get on.

At the end of the day its law that your husband can have the time off due to parental leave, whether they dont like it or not ,they may wish him to be there for the meeting but he has got a more pressing appointment looking after his children, theyve got to let him have it off and they cant do anything about it.

Ive done a lot of college to do with employment law and health and safety law and i know that the company could not stop him from having the time off if he says he needs to look after his dependents.

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tbs624

The guidelines for this type of leave are for use in genuine emergencies, not to cover a lack of planning. Moving house is a planned event.You should have explained to your solicitor that you needed to know as far in advance as possible and provisionally booked holiday time.

You have to look at the wider picture too - those of us who have families expect to be able drop out of work at short notice,or without communicating our needs properly to the HR dept, leaving those without families to possibly be asked to come in on their days off?

The OP says she couldn't take the kids to her MIL, because FIL needs bringing back in the morning and the house is too small for FIL to stay...and yet, if the two older children were sleeping at MIL's then surely grandad could have had their room for just one night?

confused31_2

Laws are there to be used its not just for emergencies, it states that if someone needs to look after there dependents they are able to take time off.

Whether hes needed there for his wife or for his children, these companies are supposed to be flexible to parents, I think it was quite reasonable for him to have the time off.

If theyve got 300 people their im sure there not going to miss 1 person, there just acting like arxxholes by not letting him have the time off.

Im just saying what i would do and if he wants he can have the time off and they cant do anything about it, as long as he say hes looking after his kids, it has not got to be an emergency.

Where i work we have flexible working, but its always in the companies favour, for instance we have to work catch back overtime compulsory, but when we ask for time off we get a straight no we cannot help you.

Thats why i love the law for working parents as it makes it very hard for an employer to refuse employees time off and as its unpaid, its not as if hes gaining money through having the time off.

I have floating holiday days at work and when i try and book them they always say no you cant have that day, so i just say i need to have the day off to look after the kids as theres no one to look after them.

They always give me the day off and they know they cant do anything about it, and that isnt an emergency, its just me being a parent.

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