vacation time ?

[oldschool]

We get a year end bonus and a ham.... mmm ham.
We just had an adjustment with vacation time due to abuse. What is your requirement for advance request? We now have to put in for a vacation day 1 month in advance. Not going over too well.

[rbailleu]

we are a small company so its not that big an issue, but I can see it might be an issue in a large company. if 10 people decided to go on vacation on friday for the whole next week. you might lose a whole shift in bindery for the week

[oldschool]

Thought 1 month was extreme. I guess it is just everyone paying for the abuse of a few (calling out and asking to use a vacation day).

[CD102]

At my old plant, we had to give 48 hours notice to take a vacation day. We had forms we had to fill in, those had to be sent to payroll to verify we still had vacation days available, then the supervisors asked/forced people to cover. Originally it required 72 hours notice.

As always, there were limitation to how many people could have off at the same time. At our plant, for some reason, they decided that for single day vacations that the first requests would be honored if multiple people applied and coverage was available. That gave a huge advantage to the night shift, so it was changed so that everyone had until so many hours into their shift to make the request and all things being equal that the senior person would get priority. The thing that really made it a pain was that you couldn't request a single day more than 7 days in advance even if you knew six months in advance that you needed to attend a wedding or graduation ceremony.

Now at my new plant, we get to take our birthdays as paid holidays. And you can use it within a 2 week window on either side of the actual date. I gave my supervisor more than a week's notice and got denied. Oh well.

But that brings up what do companies do when an employee cannot give advance notification? For example, the birth of a child? Or a death in the family? A car accident? Or a medical emergency?

[gordo]

But that brings up what do companies do when an employee cannot give advance notification? For example, the birth of a child? Or a death in the family? A car accident? Or a medical emergency?

Your employer is not responsible for your inability to schedule your life.
With a child you have 9 months notice. A death in the family? Heck we're all going to die - it's not a surprise. That's why you have life insurance so that you can plan for it. A car accident? No such thing. Bad driving will result in a crash - you know it and so does your insurance company. No surprise there either. A medical emergency? Well, your employer knows, just as you do, that they only happen on certain occasions like Superbowl Sunday, Fridays or Mondays to get a long weekend off. Entirely predictable.

With tongue firmly in cheek - gordo

[CD102]

I tried to convince my former employer that the day after the Super Bowl should be a paid holiday. Surely we could have traded some other holiday for it. Absenteeism after the Super Blow was 30% or more on the midnight shift, a good 15% on the day shift.

[jocas]

wooow.. to relax huh.. good for you!!