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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP your anger is misplaced. It is NOT about maternity leave, however, as people have explained previously, it is mandated federal leave that supersedes your earned leave benefit. But only the original 12 weeks. Your organization has approved the additional 4 weeks, which tells me they are not rigid and cruel.

I would get the refusal in writing. Are they denying the vacation plus wedding or also the wedding dates? For example, say the wedding is Nov 11. Did you request Nov 5-15 or something like that? And if yes, did you inquire whether something like the 9- 13th would be approved?

[b]If you didn't, I would suggest getting in writing whether they are denying the leave for duration or just outright denying leave during that entire time period. In either situation, you should be elevating to HR with a request to have your use-it-or-lose it rolled into next year if you are not able to use it for the last 1/3-1/4 of the year. [/b]If that wont be allowed, then I would discuss taking X amount of Fridays off during the fall and taking long weekends with your spouse and/or girls trips.

And before you go on another tirade. Many of us have to make adjustments for travel and vacation due to work, kids, spouse, spouse work, etc. Many of us dont get vacations because of kids so there's balance in all things. I also want to mention that maternity leave and FMLA protection are two separate things. The 12 weeks of protection can also be used for illness, family members, etc. I think you may need to take a step back and see if you would be as disdainful if that same person took FMLA for any other reason and determine whether you may have some biases against parents in the workplace from your lofty perch as a DINK. [/quote]

This. You should make a stink about needing to have your leave restored instead of lost if it is being denied for the entire maternity leave coverage period, because denying someone leave for months is not normal and reasonable. If it's more that they won't give you the full amount, I'd argue for the wedding days being really important, shorten the trip and take some leave now.

I get where you're coming from about wanting to take it with your spouse. Mine is a professor on a different school schedule than my kid, so we can really only travel during summer break, which is also a busy season at work for me, so I have to compromise by taking some leave then, but I also take some of the days when my spouse can't because I just can't take a month off in the summer. [/quote]

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