Fairly big DO, one of the sections is heavily dominated by PT staff (strangely enough the most unachievable walks in the office by far if equipment used correctly), second wave of 2012-13 coming to an end with seniority/reverse-seniority allocation. In their great wisdom and without realising the great flaw in the process until flagged recently, leave for PT is only being authorised on the basis of one PT on holiday per week per section. Given that everyone has at least four weeks of leave to book, excluding any purchased leave and/or any leave carried over from this year, just how exactly are twenty-odd PT staff in one section meant to book their statutory leave yet alone any extra? The one PT on leave per section per week only works if each section has upto twelve PT staff (allowing for the Xmas pressure weeks of no leave) and even that does not allow for bought or 5-days leave carried over!
Issue has been highlighted to lino who will talk to DOM, plus has been text to union (with no response so far). Christ knows why they are doing leave now, when supposedly we are having our P&L revision early next year, where leave could be allocated by picks within small groups (day-off cover duty's six rounds, the duty holders and a holiday reserve).
