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WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR HOLIDAYS??????

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jockstrapp
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WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR HOLIDAYS??????

Post by jockstrapp »

Blanket ban on odd day holidays. So if your day off fell on a stat. holiday you get that day back but are not allowed to get a day off. WHAT THE FECK IS GOING ON. :cfo
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

jockstrapp wrote:Blanket ban on odd day holidays. So if your day off fell on a stat. holiday you get that day back but are not allowed to get a day off. WHAT THE FECK IS GOING ON. :cfo
How do you mean too say if your day off was bank holiday like two weeks ago that you cannot take it when you want it is the same in our place and to get any day of is a challenge these days!.
baldrick
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Post by baldrick »

Our days in lieu are generally credited to the following year's annual leave,
and usually have to be taken during the winter leave period.
But we can apply to take odd days as 'out of course leave' subject to manager's approval.
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Post by DGP1 »

In my office only the managers pets can get the odd days off, all the rest of us just get to book weeks off.
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laudrup11
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Post by laudrup11 »

Managers are being told that odd days off can be had if you swap your normal day off.
ie If your day off is Thursday but you want Friday, see who is off that day and swap with them. Preferably on your own rotation so floater simply does the two duties on different days.
There is no cost to the business so they are happy. They simply wont give out days off to be covered by overtime any more, especially in Summer.
Of course, you can fight back by refusing to come in on your day off when sick leave or whatever makes the staffing go tits up.
jaf73
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Post by jaf73 »

i am really starting to wonder what type of organisation we are all working for, have we gone back in time because all these changes seem and make me feel that way. I dont no why managers in all ldos dont just buy a drum out of the first line fix money shackle us all together at the fittings and beat a drum to the pace they would like us to work oh yeah nearly forgot hire a meat head with muscles in his s**t to whip us when we drop off the beat of the drum. Its got to get to a point were we all have to say enough is enough and make a stand for what we know is the right way to treat ppl the more years i work for r/m the more and more i feel less valued wheres it all going to stop eventually through natural wastedge everone that works for r/m will be a p/t aswell thankfully i should have only 10 yrs service left by then jesus it feels a long time just typing that
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Post by johnnyp »

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:In my office only the managers pets can get the odd days off, all the rest of us just get to book weeks off.
I must be a managers pet as im allowed to take odd days :whistle
ive got 2 this weekend :Very Happy im off to play golf in west sussex with the father in law and a few others lads.
k979aaa
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Re: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR HOLIDAYS??????

Post by k979aaa »

johnnyp wrote:
disgruntledpostie1 wrote:In my office only the managers pets can get the odd days off, all the rest of us just get to book weeks off.
I must be a managers pet as im allowed to take odd days :whistle
ive got 2 this weekend :Very Happy im off to play golf in west sussex with the father in law and a few others lads.
Just don't hole out on us and have a good time swinging. :Very Happy
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Post by brothermagrew »

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"Today’s workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised."
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Post by Big Daz »

jockstrapp wrote:Blanket ban on odd day holidays. So if your day off fell on a stat. holiday you get that day back but are not allowed to get a day off. WHAT THE FECK IS GOING ON. :cfo

If your day off falls on a bank/public holiday then you get a day's leave back on next years leave.

Its in the Way Forward, there is a clause that allows you to take it the same leave year though.