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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Ever Ready on 12 October 2016, 09:07:37
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Using up the last of my holidays before the holiday year ends, use them or lose them policy
Got the Grand kids staying over, good job I'm an early riser :)
Grandson wants to go in Grandpa's car to nursery as Granny's car is too wee :)
Can we go to Greggs for a sausage roll on the way Grandpa?
Diet? what diet? :)
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Using up the last of my holidays before the holiday year ends, use them or lose them policy
Got the Grand kids staying over, good job I'm an early riser :)
Grandson wants to go in Grandpa's car to nursery as Granny's car is too wee :)
Can we go to Greggs for a sausage roll on the way Grandpa?
Diet? what diet? :)
A lot of people like to knock Greggs, but oooooooo their warm sausage rolls :y
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Enjoy :y
I use half my holiday time as a reservist so holiday's are rare and short. Make the most of it :y
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Just had to swap over the car seats for the young ER's.
I cannot stand Mr Tumble on kids tv, he gets right on my three penny bits :) :)
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You are so correct..he is a stupid boy... ;D ;D
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Have fun with the grandchildren though :y being dry and sunny, they should be outside :y
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Good day with them today, just had bath time and tea time for them, soon be bed time :y :y
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..... soon be bed time :y :y
Who for? Them or you? ;D ;D
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Both :y
The eldest (3) has just come downstairs and the youngest (8Months) is sleeping in her buggy.
Chances of an early night? slim to nowt ;D ;D
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Have fun with the grandchildren though :y being dry and sunny, they should be outside :y
Correct. :y..............it causes me a lot of hassle. ::)
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Most companies had similar policies long before WTD came in, as carrying over lots of leave is not a good thing for resource planning
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Doesn't work though... And not carrying over (or paying) remaining hours whilst not allowing time to be booked due to availability issues is, imho, tantamount to theft >:(
There's not much which really grips my shit in the working world, but this and WTD are top of the list :-X
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Back in the late 80's or very early 90's I once lost well over 3 weeks. I appealed it as I could prove I'd had over a dozen leave requests rejected, but lost.
So I genuinely do sympathise - I've been there. But I've seen the other side where small businesses end up taking someone else on because some little shit has saved up 3yrs leave, and wants 4 months off to travel
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Most companies had similar policies long before WTD came in, as carrying over lots of leave is not a good thing for resource planning
Yeah - here you can only accrue a max of 30 days (below that you can buy extra to take you to 30), so if you start with 30 you can carry over 0. If you have 25 you can carry over 5.
They even brought in a policy last year that leave had to be spread out over the year, because everyone saved it up and then 80% of the support staff wanted to take the month of December off to go home.. caused a bit of a resource issue, that!
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Most companies had similar policies long before WTD came in, as carrying over lots of leave is not a good thing for resource planning
Yeah - here you can only accrue a max of 30 days (below that you can buy extra to take you to 30), so if you start with 30 you can carry over 0. If you have 25 you can carry over 5.
They even brought in a policy last year that leave had to be spread out over the year, because everyone saved it up and then 80% of the support staff wanted to take the month of December off to go home.. caused a bit of a resource issue, that!
Not now that they're going home for good :)
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Most companies had similar policies long before WTD came in, as carrying over lots of leave is not a good thing for resource planning
I had never encountered it before the WTD came in (year 2000 iirc). I don't know how many employers did so before WTD, but I would seriously doubt that it was most. My current employer would be happy to pay me the money for holidays I don't want to take, and I would be happy with that arrangement, but WTD says no. Ludicrous in my view.
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Most companies had similar policies long before WTD came in, as carrying over lots of leave is not a good thing for resource planning
I had never encountered it before the WTD came in (year 2000 iirc). I don't know how many employers did so before WTD, but I would seriously doubt that it was most. My current employer would be happy to pay me the money for holidays I don't want to take, and I would be happy with that arrangement, but WTD says no. Ludicrous in my view.
The WTD directive cant say that or I would not be able to carry holiday over......plus I work for a fairly big organisation.
Yet in the GPT days there was no holiday carry over period, they then changed it up to 5 days with management agreement.
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It allows holiday to be carried over to an extent, but doesn't allow employees to be paid in lieu of taking holiday instead of using the holiday entitlement.
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Time off with Grandkids, can't beat it have a great time ,last time I had 2 of mine round I took them for a spin in the Merc then they took great delight in telling their Mum how fast we had gone ! 😉😉
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They're not long away, just got the house to tidy up as SWMBO is away to work.
I was warned not to drive fast with the little gems in the car, different story all together when the kids were wee, many times they told their mother how daddy used to drive ;D ;D ;D
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The use it/lose it farce is, I believe, an EU invention to try to force people to not work too much... part of the WTD 'dangle berries' >:(
Most companies had similar policies long before WTD came in, as carrying over lots of leave is not a good thing for resource planning
I had never encountered it before the WTD came in (year 2000 iirc). I don't know how many employers did so before WTD, but I would seriously doubt that it was most. My current employer would be happy to pay me the money for holidays I don't want to take, and I would be happy with that arrangement, but WTD says no. Ludicrous in my view.
The WTD directive cant say that or I would not be able to carry holiday over......plus I work for a fairly big organisation.
Yet in the GPT days there was no holiday carry over period, they then changed it up to 5 days with management agreement.
Location/origin of parent company might have a bearing on this as different cultures will view this differently... ie if you are unable to take leave at key project points, it would be accepted that you may wish to take longer leave between projects, or that in extreme latitudes you will get more time off in the summer months...