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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how many heartless people are on this board. For those saying that the employee should have requested the annual leave beforehand, did you ever stop to think that maybe she's struggling with postpartum depression or another post delivery complication. Or like others have suggested, maybe her child care situation fell through at the last minute. She's asking to take vacation time that she accrued, not a handout. For those saying she is making women looking bad for doing so, [b]if it was a man going through a major medical procedure and asking for a little additional leave time I doubt you'd be so judgmental[/b].[/quote]

I think you are wrong.  I think people would feel the same about a man who seemed to be abusing leave.  She had 3 months of leave -- that's all a man would get for a medical issue.  Now she wants to take unscheduled vacation time off.

If there were a medical issue (PPD or something of that nature) or some other hardship issue, she could frame it that way to her boss and explain there are extenuating circumstances.  But it seems like that's not the case.

And just because you accrue vacation time doesn't mean you can use it whenever you want, without warning.  Almost all employers require the vacation time be approved in advance.

I have a relative who pulled this kind of thing.  She was only scheduled to take 3 months FMLA.  She stretched it out to 5 months and then wanted to take leave without pay.   Her boss finally said she had to report to work the following monday or she wouldn't have a job.  She reported to work.  She still acts like a victim, but there were no extenuating circumstances.  And it seemed to me that it was her plan all along to take vacation leave immediately after the FMLA (but without scheduling it in advance b/c she knew it would be denied).  Her boss seems like OP -- was resistant to say no and that's why he kept giving in to letting her use up her vacation time, sick leave (on top of the FMLA/maternity leave).  But then he had enough.  I think her hope all along was to be able to take 6 months leave.  She thought she was a "valuable" employee, and I think she overrated her value.  [/quote]

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