Hi all,
Just wondered how your work place handles staff Xmas leave requests as it’s come up within my team.
Current process is that a member of the team requests leave and if no more than 1 other person is off on that date it’s pretty much always approved except in very specific conditions. Our manager does allow 2 members off, sometimes even 3, but it’s not guaranteed, it also used to be the rule that we couldn’t book the first week of the month off, but that seems to have been relaxed, we also can’t book more than 2 weeks off at the same time without director approval. We also get all bank holidays off.
However, an issue has arisen with booking holiday over Xmas, my team of 5, probably have half, if not less the amount of work to do as usual, but in a support team it’s hard to know what/if anything with break.
2 of my colleagues who had off the dates between Xmas and NYD have booked the same dates for this year, however, our manager has sent us all an email to state that the 2 members who only had the bank holidays off will be given the opportunity to book dates around Xmas off first and they have until the end of November to do so, so those 2 who have submitted requests could potentially wait until the end of November to know if there request has been approved.
Those 2 aren’t particularly happy about this, pointing out that a particular colleague for the last couple of years has booked off the first 2 weeks of August and has done again this year, they’re stating the same rule should apply.
Anyway, interested to know if anyone else works in a fairly small team and how Xmas holiday is handled.
Just wondered how your work place handles staff Xmas leave requests as it’s come up within my team.
Current process is that a member of the team requests leave and if no more than 1 other person is off on that date it’s pretty much always approved except in very specific conditions. Our manager does allow 2 members off, sometimes even 3, but it’s not guaranteed, it also used to be the rule that we couldn’t book the first week of the month off, but that seems to have been relaxed, we also can’t book more than 2 weeks off at the same time without director approval. We also get all bank holidays off.
However, an issue has arisen with booking holiday over Xmas, my team of 5, probably have half, if not less the amount of work to do as usual, but in a support team it’s hard to know what/if anything with break.
2 of my colleagues who had off the dates between Xmas and NYD have booked the same dates for this year, however, our manager has sent us all an email to state that the 2 members who only had the bank holidays off will be given the opportunity to book dates around Xmas off first and they have until the end of November to do so, so those 2 who have submitted requests could potentially wait until the end of November to know if there request has been approved.
Those 2 aren’t particularly happy about this, pointing out that a particular colleague for the last couple of years has booked off the first 2 weeks of August and has done again this year, they’re stating the same rule should apply.
Anyway, interested to know if anyone else works in a fairly small team and how Xmas holiday is handled.
