To ask for some leave to be reimbursed?

[flownthecoopkiwi]

Long story short. Colleague has a big project that has been allowed to get off track due to bad senior management. I've been asked to try to make some progress on it to help meet deadlines. Worked from home yesterday but supposed to be on leave today. Know that i will end up doing at least day's work on it today and over weekend.

Would it be cheeky to ask for my leave to be moved to another day? Feel a bit cheeky as doing more hours is expected sometimes but I'm doing a favour? Will also have to work next weekend to meet my deadlines...

Not at all, you haven't had the leave so why not.

Absolutely it should be reimbursed.

That would be completely acceptable in my workplace.

And not even a little bit cheeky.

You would be better off not working from home and going into work. There can be no mistaking cancelled leave then.

Would it be cheeky to ask for my leave to be moved to another day?

Whatever you do, get it agreed in advance.

It wouldn't be cheeky at all.

That's not cheeky - get this agreed ASAP. This is what I love about timesheets. Annoying things, but if you don't charge the leave then it never happened.

Not cheeky at all. If you've been asked to help out on this then you are entitled to get your leave hours back. You can ask for it to be TOIL or normal annual leave. As you are doing weekend hours (assuming that your usual arrangement is Mon-Fri?) I would suggest it should be given back to you as TOIL and the hours taken at a time that suits you.

Nope not cheeky, I've done it before when I had to work on an urgent issue instead of taking my booked day off. I didn't even have to ask, I was told to take it back.

I had a similar situation recently but it was my own peoject that fell behind due to someone being off sick the monday i was due to finish it, tuesday was mynon working day. I offered to swop my NWD to wednesday to make sure it was finished in the deadline. No biggie, you are doing them a favour by agreeing to move your day off