Comment on Discussion Thread đ Thursday 19 February 2026
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoAt 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.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
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.