Getting married and booking time off advise.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 18 Feb 2019, 09:57

number one wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:Leave ceilings are also done in hours
Just don’t understand how you’re getting at you may have 16 people off

Lets say the leave ceiling for a given day is 64hrs. If full time is say 8hrs per day, you can have a maximum of 8 people off. If it's all part timers on say 4hrs per day then you can have a maximum of 16 people off on that day (16 x 4)

Tman · Post by **Tman** » 18 Feb 2019, 09:58

Back to the OP. Unless it's changed in the last few years you should get 5 days SPL for a wedding and honeymoon. As long as you tell them in plenty of time to arrange cover.

number one · Post by **number one** » 18 Feb 2019, 10:14

SpacePhoenix wrote:
number one wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:Leave ceilings are also done in hours
Just don’t understand how you’re getting at you may have 16 people off
Lets say the leave ceiling for a given day is 64hrs. If full time is say 8hrs per day, you can have a maximum of 8 people off. If it's all part timers on say 4hrs per day then you can have a maximum of 16 people off on that day (16 x 4)

That’s why it’s split. Say the ceiling is 8 people then the ceiling stays at 8. The hours aren’t used for ceilings as such. Depeyon your office full time/part time split you might have 4 full time 4 part time or 6 full time 2 part time. It stays at 8. You could also raise the ceiling and lapse more

jd9442 · Post by **jd9442** » 18 Feb 2019, 12:12

Tman wrote:Back to the OP. Unless it's changed in the last few years you should get 5 days SPL for a wedding and honeymoon. As long as you tell them in plenty of time to arrange cover.

This true?

number one · Post by **number one** » 18 Feb 2019, 12:17

jd9442 wrote:
Tman wrote:Back to the OP. Unless it's changed in the last few years you should get 5 days SPL for a wedding and honeymoon. As long as you tell them in plenty of time to arrange cover.
This true?

No

Tman · Post by **Tman** » 18 Feb 2019, 13:17

When did it change then?

number one · Post by **number one** » 18 Feb 2019, 13:43

Tman wrote:When did it change then?

As far as I’m aware it’s never be a thing. The post office had it but not Royal Mail

Tman · Post by **Tman** » 18 Feb 2019, 16:21

We had it last time anyone here applied. Fives days SPL for paternity, marriage, death of a parent if you were organising the funeral, etc. and I've been granted all three. Never worked for the Post Office though.

number one · Post by **number one** » 18 Feb 2019, 16:41

Tman wrote:We had it last time anyone here applied. Fives days SPL for paternity, marriage, death of a parent if you were organising the funeral, etc. and I've been granted all three. Never worked for the Post Office though.

Paternity should be 2 weeks

jd9442 · Post by **jd9442** » 18 Feb 2019, 17:00

I googled ‘Royal Mail leave for wedding’

This link came up http://www.cwu-e4.co.uk/files/special_leave_policy.doc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MARRIAGE/REGISTRATION OF CIVIL PARTNERSHIP LEAVE
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3 to 5 days paid leave depending on annual leave entitlement:
• 3 days if leave entitlement is 6 weeks.
• 4 days if leave entitlement is 5 weeks 3 days.
• 5 days if leave entitlement is 5 weeks.

number one · Post by **number one** » 18 Feb 2019, 18:48

Family events: Employee’s may ask for time off to go to family events, for example, a wedding. (remember that often, the employee has no control over the date/time of these events.) The first option would be to try and arrange holiday. Where this is not possible, try your best to arrange for the employee to make up the time, swap shifts or take unpaid time off

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 18 Feb 2019, 19:40

number one wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
number one wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:Leave ceilings are also done in hours
Just don’t understand how you’re getting at you may have 16 people off
Lets say the leave ceiling for a given day is 64hrs. If full time is say 8hrs per day, you can have a maximum of 8 people off. If it's all part timers on say 4hrs per day then you can have a maximum of 16 people off on that day (16 x 4)
That’s why it’s split. Say the ceiling is 8 people then the ceiling stays at 8. The hours aren’t used for ceilings as such. Depeyon your office full time/part time split you might have 4 full time 4 part time or 6 full time 2 part time. It stays at 8. You could also raise the ceiling and lapse more

You're office must do things different as leave ceilings here are also in hours, as well as a leave ceiling for each shift, there's also a leave ceiling for all shifts combined so for example there could be 100 hours available to the leave ceiling on your own shift but there might not be any hours left for the overall leave ceiling

Tman · Post by **Tman** » 18 Feb 2019, 21:45

number one wrote:Family events: Employee’s may ask for time off to go to family events, for example, a wedding. (remember that often, the employee has no control over the date/time of these events.) The first option would be to try and arrange holiday. Where this is not possible, try your best to arrange for the employee to make up the time, swap shifts or take unpaid time off

Surely that's other people's weddings they're referring to rather than your own.