Annual Leave

[DHARMA16]

Could someone please point me in the direction of the agreed way of signing for your annaul leave via the list-ie top of the list signs for 2 weeks and passes the list to the next peson and then the list works it way to the top for the signing of the third week as we have a problem in our office as the person at the top of the list says he signs for his 2 weeks first and then signs for the third week first again and then gets first choice of any extra days and I am sure its the wrong way to do it-thanks

[arnold cheshire]

top to bottom then bottom to top etc

[IcanthelpthewayIam]

top to bottom then bottom to top etc

thats only true if its your local offices agreement, the Way Forward agreement states:

Annual leave selection process principles:

• Leave will be organised within the existing organisational structure of the office, e.g. work areas for Mail Centres and RDCs, Delivery sections in large Delivery units and across the whole office in other Delivery offices.

• In all cases, the line manager/staff Resourcing manager will need to ensure specialist areas are always adequately covered, e.g. drivers, rurals, VCS, mech.

• All employees will be included on an equal basis, whether full- or part-time.

• Reserves will be allocated to work area and with that, specialist groups where needed, but reserves may be required to work within other work areas for the coverage of unforeseen absence and short-time sick absence.

• Operational requirements within the work area will determine the maximum number of people that may be away at any one time. This will be based on:

- Forecast variations in workload during the year including event forecasting such as peak traffic periods, Bank Holidays etc;
- forecast sick absence;
- training and substitution absence;
- the resulting leave reserve level and supplementary staffing.


Selection of leave

Royal Mail and CWU, locally, will agree their own annual leave selection procedures. This must conform to all of the principles listed above. If the current selection procedure already conforms, there is no need to change. Where current arrangements do not conform, they will need to be changed. However, if annual leave has already been selected for the year or part-year, this will be honoured and the new procedure will not be introduced until after this leave period.