Days off vs annual leave.
Our company has started rostering all leave requests as just leave, e.g. 7 days for a holiday equals 7 days out of the annual leave with no "wrap-around" days off.
End result is that the minimum of "an average of 8 days off in a consecutive 4 week period averaged over 3 such periods" has gone out the DV window so to speak.
I understand that from an FTL point of view this is acceptable as the authority aren't interested whether the time off is couched as leave or days off, but it leaves us far worse off than our 9-5 Monday to Friday human beings and uses up leave fast.
Typical example in the short term would be in a 14 day period one "day off" plus a leave request for 7 days. To my mind this does not follow the "minimum 3 days off in 14" as laid down in our ops manual in the FTL section.
Any of you "terms of employment" gurus have any comments?
Last edited by Twosheds Jackson; 27th July 2002 at 12:02.