Holiday entitlement
Posting on behalf of my daughter - a recent starter (late last year)
She wants to book leave in June 07, which will be after the end of her probation period. As with all holiday/hotel bookings they are filling fast and require deposits etc. now.
The Virgin system has come back and said her leave request is being queued and they will be able to tell her in April/May whether she has been granted the leave.
This means she could loose the monies that have to be paid upfront as no indication can be given that the leave will be granted. This seems very strange to me (an outsider to the industry).I quite understand that leave is on a first come/first serve basis and that there cannot be too many people off at the same time but surely a clear indication can be given that she is (or isnt) first in the queue for the particular period in question and therefore going to get the request granted or refused. This sort of limbo state of "we will tell you later" looks inefficient and bad for morale to me.
Of course this could be all wrong as I only have one side of the story