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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have a right to use your leave, but your boss generally has the right to approve or deny WHEN you use it.  Earning leave does not usually mean you get to take off whenever you want.

But, the boss must be reasonable. If you submit leave requests every month, and it's denied every month because "this isn't a good time", that is effectively denying your use of leave at all.

How long are you covering for the person on leave? If it's a short leave, or if you are trading off with someone and this happens to be your week, then the denial is reasonable. If you are covering for 6 months, and your boss is saying that you can't take any leave at all for those 6 months, that is not reasonable and you should talk to HR to ask for more information on the policy. [/quote]

The person is going on maternity leave in October. They’re going on maternity leave for 3 months, then using an additional 4 weeks of their leave to add on an additional month of leave.  They want me to basically start to cover everything they’re doing from mid-Sept as they ramp down before maternity leave and through to Feb 2024.  Yes, so that’s effectively restricting my use of my earned leave for 4-5 months.  How the hell could  I possibly use my leave earlier like all of the stupid other posters claim.  A) you don’t even know about maternity leave until a person is like 9-10 months pregnant and you still need a lot more time to plan leave and make sure you can coordinate with your spouse, and B) it has to overlap with a fall wedding like I already mentioned. [/quote]

So you could use your leave for the rest of July, August, September, and some of October?  It isn't being stolen from you.

Also, while you would like it to overlap with the wedding, it doesn't have to.  As other have repeatedly said, you are not entitled to take leave on any particular date.  That's the entire purpose of the approval process.  [/quote]

NP and it sounds like (maybe?) she won't be able to take leave from mid-September through mid-February (plus or minus a bit depending on when the baby arrives).  Even if its a blackout on taking leave from mid-October through mid-February that still seems unreasonable to me, if true.[/quote]

I don't trust OP as a reliable narrator here because her comments have been so vitriolic and her anger is weirdly misplaced on her pregnant colleague.

If her workplace is actually denying her leave for the entire 4 month duration of her colleague's maternity leave, I'd be sympathetic. But I don't believe they are doing this, especially since apparently her colleagues is using extra leave to take the 4th month, at which point the FMLA portion of the leave no longer takes precedence. Much more likely is that the timing of this wedding, or the duration of the requested leave, is simply very bad for a department that is already down one person, and that's why it was rejected.

If they are literally saying that she can't take off for a long weekend or the week of Thanksgiving or Christmas or something, then the company is in the wrong and OP should document everything and get it addressed. But I don't think that's actually what is happening. OP is being incredibly unreasonable and combative and I think she's just sore about not being able to take this one vacation and lashing out wherever she can.[/quote]

PP here and that's fair.  I feel like it took six pages or so before OP laid out the situation and the information still feels a bit incomplete.

Probably a troll though.  I have noticed over the past few months that the posts in this forum and the replies are a lot more inflammatory than they used to be.  It's not as bad as the relationship forum but it's heading that way.[/quote]

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