Folk are talking about getting a day of importance off (birthday etc), reading the QF EBA I see you folk have three possible flex periods available per year, can you not use those, or is it too difficult to organise? One of the big impediments I see is how you folk are locked into the seniority system, the company knows they have you by the proverbial right there, in our industry upgrades eg to a trainer slot, were by volunteer and merit We ran a bidding book where folk could request particular days off and the roster was built around those requests, didn't always work out but that was extremely rare. It didn't mean you could write your own roster, just that important day you needed, school sports day, dentist, birthday etc You needed to work your share of Xmas's and that was not negotiable.