Night shifts before annual leave

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I wonder if anyone knows the answer to this. I work on a relief rota so get my shifts a minimum of two weeks in advance, a mixture of days and nights.
If I have booked annual leave starting on Monday my work says that they can put me on a night shift on the Sunday ending at 6.00am on Monday morning.
To me this does not seem right but am prepared to be told I'm wrong.

Seems fine. Your annual leave is for the hours you would have worked (i.e. 8) not the 24 hours in the day.

Bear in mind this works the other way round in that if you have a night shift on a Tuesday by taking holiday monday you get all of monday and most of tuesday.

If we aware staff member may have flights booked we discuss it with them before confirming rota.

But if you have a night shift on Tuesday you've got to sleep during the day. It just seems to waste holiday as you can't book flight etc or go anywhere until the following day due to needing sleep.

I think this is right op. I work nights on a rota and this is how it would work for us. I would usually request the day before my annual leave starts to be a day off (not annual leave) and would expect that they would try to do this.if not, could you swap with someone else?

If you request a day off ,even if it's for a doctors appointment etc, and even if you request it three months in advance you can guarantee you won't get it.
It's one of the things which really lowers morale as it's virtually impossible to swap due to skill levels and they only want you to book annual leave in week blocks so you can't even book an extra day if you want an early ferry/flight.
Hopefully will be on a rota within the next year and then I can plan ahead. Yippee!!!!!!!!!

Yes, your work can, but you can't you request that they don't?

Requesting anything from our scheduling dept means you won't get it!