DH's manager wants all school holidays off

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Gah! DH's manager wants all holidays off, which means that DH would no be able to take ANY school holiday time off. This would mean that we would have to pay for extra childcare during school holidays, or I would have to give up MY part-time job.

The manager says that if the request is refused, she will claim the holidays as unpaid parental leave (she has two other pre-school children under 5).

What can we do?

She has the legal right to request a change to her contract but it's up to her managers/HR to agree it.. it won't change your husbands ability to take holiday as he should just take it anyway - the company should take her cover into consideration when the accept or refuse the application.

They aren't both allowed off at the same time - they do similar things. This has been made clear.

They can't refuse if she takes it as unpaid parental leave though, can they?

yes they can refuse.. there is somebody on here who knows a lot about this type of stuff, can't for the life of me remember who though...

I second that, parental leave has to be approved in the same way as normal holiday.

if she's applying for that then he needs to make bloody clear at the same time that he will require certain times off during school hols

he would be being discriminated against if he can not take his annual leave during holidays. discrimination works both ways, and as he is a father, he is entitled to take time off at the same time as his family is on holiday.

I would strongly suggest that your dh gets his request in for leave and/or parental leave asap. That said with 13 weeks of school holiday is she really trying to get all of these? She can only claim 4 weeks of unpaid leave each year.

Oooh - I wonder if I am your dh's manager - I've just asked for this !!

Sorry if so !!!