Booking holiday / taking sick leave?
Discussion
My daughter is going back into hospital in a few weeks time, and I have been arranging some time off so that my wife can stay in with her, and I can look after the other kids / come and visit her.
I've recently moved under a new boss, when I emailed him to ask for the time off, he has suggested that I make up the time for the first half day, and I could take the other days as sick leave.
Is he correct? I know there is "emergency leave" for parents, but this isn't an emergency as we have 3 weeks notice; anyway, I thought that came out of annual leave entitlements. Sick leave is covered by legislation rather than company rules, AIUI. Obviously I don't want to take advantage, but if I could save a couple of my annual leave (I've already burned 7 days this year, on her earlier hospital stay) towards a family holiday later in the year when she has recovered, that would be pretty good?
Andy
I've recently moved under a new boss, when I emailed him to ask for the time off, he has suggested that I make up the time for the first half day, and I could take the other days as sick leave.
Is he correct? I know there is "emergency leave" for parents, but this isn't an emergency as we have 3 weeks notice; anyway, I thought that came out of annual leave entitlements. Sick leave is covered by legislation rather than company rules, AIUI. Obviously I don't want to take advantage, but if I could save a couple of my annual leave (I've already burned 7 days this year, on her earlier hospital stay) towards a family holiday later in the year when she has recovered, that would be pretty good?
Andy
My son is in hospital for about five days a month at the moment and legislation was brought in a few years back allowing you to take time off unpaid to accompany them.
So no you don't have to take sick leave they have to give you time off.
I did have a boss a couple of years back that suggested I might like to work somewhere else because of the time I needed off but I told him no I need to work somewhere else because you're a
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So no you don't have to take sick leave they have to give you time off.
I did have a boss a couple of years back that suggested I might like to work somewhere else because of the time I needed off but I told him no I need to work somewhere else because you're a
.ali_kat said:
Sounds to me like he is being rather 'nice' to you, suggesting you ring in sick rather than take holiday...
That's kind of what I thought, hence I didn't want to take it up with HR and potentially drop him in it!As it's only 1 day this time, I'm going to take it as a holiday, I may investigate unpaid leave if she has to go back for more overnight stays.
I was lucky when she was in Great Ormond street, as I took some parental leave. When my son was in, I was lucky / unlucky to be on gardening leave!
aclivity said:
ali_kat said:
Sounds to me like he is being rather 'nice' to you, suggesting you ring in sick rather than take holiday...
That's kind of what I thought, hence I didn't want to take it up with HR and potentially drop him in it!As it's only 1 day this time, I'm going to take it as a holiday, I may investigate unpaid leave if she has to go back for more overnight stays.
I was lucky when she was in Great Ormond street, as I took some parental leave. When my son was in, I was lucky / unlucky to be on gardening leave!
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