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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the pp are insane. I understand team members coordinating so that each person's 1-2 week vacations are not at the same time. But that is not what the OP is describing. [b]The OP is being told that she can not take leave for the next 6months because another coworker is out.[/b] That is ridiculous. I hope OP works for a big enough company that their is someone above her supervisor. 
OP do not take this first no as an answer. Make sure you have this information in writing. If any of this was a verbal conversation please follow up with your supervisor in an email and clarify. This way you have the situation documented to go up the chain of command.

Are you the only person covering the work for the employee on maternity leave? Therefore the only person in the company being denied leave? IF that is the case I would start asking for more compensation while your coworker is out. You are being held responsible for 2 jobs. You should be getting paid for that.

Unfortunately, I predict that OP is going to need to start looking for a new job. Companies that act like this don't change. Even if OP wins this battle she will now be engaged in a war with her supervisor.[/quote]

Perhaps I missed it, but it seems OP has been careful not to say this. Only to say this specific request was denied because of the colleagues maternity leave.

In my last job, we had a coverage schedule for a certain aspect of our department's work that needed guaranteed coverage. People would do one or two week stints and the schedule had to be set months in advance to deal with vacation and other leave, because it was not okay for there to ever be a gap in coverage. And since sometimes people get sick and have emergencies, that means the coverage schedule always had one person scheduled on, PLUS a backup. If you were scheduled to be on or as backup, you could not schedule vacation during that time unless you could come up with a switch that would keep the schedule intact.

So there were of course situations where someone had something come up that conflicted with the coverage schedule, and would want time off, and it would be denied. It happened to me, it happened to almost everyone except the handful of people who basically never took vacation. It was stressful but it was just how the business was structured. That coverage was a significant aspect of the work we did.

It's one of the reasons I left -- it was very rigid and hard to manage with vacations. But it wasn't "unfair." Everyone had the same issue. It's just how it was.[/quote]

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