No Annual Leave allowed in December

[clashcityrocker]

Our p/t staff are normally made f/t for the xmas pressure.
If it now begins at the start of December, can they expect a f/t wage for 4 weeks instead of 2?

and do they get the full xmas bonus?

Yes

[TrueBlueTerrier]

and do they get the full xmas bonus?

Yes

4 Christmas Bonus Supplement

The Christmas bonus supplement of £100 for full time OPG and OSGs (pro-rated for part timers) will be paid on 18 December. The eligibility criteria for the Christmas bonus payment will be the same as last year, based on the four December weeks (commencing 30 November). In the unlikely event of any industrial action the abatement criteria will be drawn from the PBS agreement.

[Lounge Lizard]

Unfortunately the Way Forward deals with Annual Leave at Christmas.

Selection of annual leave The objective will be as far as possible to maximise leave opportunities for employees, whilst ensuring that operational needs and the customer specification are met at all times. This agreement covers selection of full week leave and part week e.g. holidays staring mid-week. Single days leave will be agreed locally through the Staff Resourcing Manager in Mail Centres or the line manager in other operational units.

The leave year will be April to March. The Christmas pressure period, determined by the operational unit, will be a closed period for leave. The selection process should be complete by the end of the preceding October each year.

The granting of leave must always be subject to operational requirements and fairness of allocation. Employees who wish to exchange between themselves periods of leave already signed for will be able to do so, with the agreement of the Staff Resourcing Manager in Mail Centres or the line manager in other operational units.

Prior to annual leave signing, the Staff Resourcing Manager in Mail Centres and the line manager in other operational units, will have discretion to grant specific requests for particular periods of leave from individual employees based on their exceptional and unavoidable personal circumstances. This will include meeting the commitments of employees new to the unit where they join with holidays already arranged, without disadvantaging existing staff with agreed leave already allocated.

Assigned allowances are paid during annual leave but not non-assigned or intermittent allowances. Where assigned shift allowances are averaged across a rotation, employees may not take more than three weeks of their leave from the most unsocial shift (i.e. that which attracts the highest payment) of the rotation.

"The leave year will be April to March." and yet the next leave year starts on Sunday 25th March, a week before the end of March.

[POSTMAN]

Seems some need to download the way forward and slap it in their screws face.

[Rancid Postie]

I can live with December but my D.O. its 12 December till the 8th of January

[superports]

A postman in our office had the Leave Sheet taken off him by the manager and given to next person without having booked any time off.
I should say that this is in Northern Ireland and concerns July 13th. The 12th July is a bank holiday and the 13th is blacked out. The postman wanted to know if he was working on the 13th so he could book a holiday. The manager told him lots would be drawn for people to work that day "in a few weeks". Not much use to the postman who has 24 hours to sign for leave.