Comment on Discussion Thread đ Thursday 19 February 2026
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I put in for, like, three days of leave. I did this a month out. I want the leave in late March.
Apparently the answer is still no. How damn early do I have to do it for it to be a yes?
Stop asking. This is your leave, that you have accrued. It belongs to you. You are advising them of your unavailability.
Respond to them advising you have given them X weeks of notice of your leave. Make them explain why theyâre trying to block you
They say too many other people want it around that time. Canât lose too many at once, see?
But likeâŚwhy is a monthâs warning not long enough to avoid that problem and let me block out three days?
Copy and paste that second sentence into your reply email
This. I donât ask for leave, I tell. If you havenât got enough staff thatâs your problem, not mine.
At least youâre not being refused âbecause you donât have childrenâ - apparently leave requests for parents get priority in some places. Nearly got trapped by that in one place I worked. Leave request approved, then suddenly cancelled because someone else had kids and wanted the same date range as leave. At the time, my workplace didnât know I had a family too. I really enjoyed ripping them a new one over that.
Seriously, a bot probably has a standard time frame for booking leave requests - and your request might have been just outside it - is one month the same as 30 days? - depends on the month. And a ranked list of requests stacked up to fill once it got freedom to grant leave. This list might well be ranked within the organisation, by tenure etc. too. Your request might have been just below the cut off point in the allowed parameters.
Doesnât make the situation any better or less aggravating.
I donât think they are actually allowed to do that, itâs not legal to discriminate based on âparental statusâ and that goes both ways.
My workplace doesnât do that, but there are different leave arrangements for âhigh demand periodsâ over the school holidays. Itâs a ballot so that it doesnât always go to the same people though, not a discriminatory allocation.
Did they give a business reason for saying no? I donât think you can just deny for whatever reason, especially over and over again, these are your rights to use.
They say that thereâs no leave available. Too many other people want it around that time.
But likeâŚwhy is a monthâs warning not long enough to avoid that? How quick off the mark do I need to be?
I can understand that reason being given once, but it sounds like a resourcing issue to me if itâs happened to you over and over. You canât be expected to know when you want a few days of leave several months in advance.
100% a staffing issue. Weâre chronically stretched
Itâs become an issue since they changed up the leave booking system too, It used to be reviewed by a person, now itâs automatedâŚand the leave-bot says no to things
Cough, cough⌠I see some sick leave in your future.
At my workplace you canât book leave more than 18 months in advance. If you have a specific date you want you can miss out 17 months in advance. You can generally get weekend shifts fairly easily because people want to work for the penalty rates, and if you can generally find a day or two available a few months out as long as you donât want it to be any specific date. If you need a specific day off you often need to arrange to swap a shift with someone else because getting leave is unlikely.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs bullshit. An employer can only refuse an employeeâs request for annual leave if the refusal is reasonable. Whatâs their reason?
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
That thereâs no leave available. Too many other people want it.
But likeâŚwhy is a monthâs warning not long enough to avoid that?