Buying holidays

[anthonyok]

I buy the extra to make my holidays up to 6 weeks per year, some posties are moaning because i get to book my last two weeks before their odd days.What is the official order of holiday pick?

[El-Bandito]

It varies from office to office. My office has a rolling down seniority policy. Though with bought hols the senior man has priority. Its a local agreement, usually.

[Jiries]

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[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

Legally, I believe employees are entitled to 28 days annual leave per year, which can include bank holidays.

From that perspective, RM offer more than the legal requirement, FT staff get at least 30.5 days leave per year (before we consider extra leave through long service and Purchase Of Annual Leave).

[dblad]

It varies from office to office. My office has a rolling down seniority policy. Though with bought hols the senior man has priority. Its a local agreement, usually.

Why should the senior postie get priority over bought hols, everyone is equal on those days as they are paid for by us.

[postslippete]

It doesn't matter about Seniority where holidays are concerned


We choose what weeks we want and they get drawn out of an invisible hat. I would like more holidays from work and would be prepared to work some days off in return for weeks off BUT we have been told that we can't work this way because they can't cover all the duties adequately. Nobody gets a week off in December, for example.

Even now, trying to arrange a day off 3 months in advance with either a manager or DOM support is like Mission Impossible. And the only reason they are generally uncooperative and inflexible is because they don't like having to change rota's or changing staff around to cover.

I really do like the idea of 'buying' holidays as I prefer to "work to live" rather than live to work so working extra days for money doesn't really interest me. However, I suspect that buying holidays gets pushed aside with the CWU when managers put staff resourcing at the top of their list.