prairiedriver
While I see where you are coming from, that makes no financial sense. Paid leave is a liability on the company’s balance sheet. It makes more sense for the company to allocate paid leave first preferably for them in the first half of next year to clear the books than to allocate unpaid leave. Also unless one volunteers for unpaid leave it’s a bit hard to allocate it to everyone.
If what’s happened to me is any indication, considering that I have +165 leave points and I had all my leave requests in both for requested and allocated for 2009, this is exactly what is happening.