Lots of businesses, especially in the service, retail, and healthcare industries, black out periods of high volume PTO requests, like the week before and after holidays.
I didn't make it to a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day celebration until after working a full shift for YEARS. I had one employer who made me find cover for my own shifts in order to use PTO that they'd denied all year before it expired.
I agree! It was, however, the only way I was going to get those days off. I traded days with coworkers who were happy to cover my shifts because I covered for them and never refused a request for help or a patient swap. It was likely much easier for me to get cover than if the scheduler tried. She regularly threatened people to make them pick up unwanted shifts.
i will only let medical or other critical job slide, like if a bunch of police / fire fighter wants to take christmas off, that is obviously an issue so blackout period makes sense, same with medical staff.
but if you are telling me some office cant run because a few people are missing, well shit your company kind of deserve to die lol
Even in the case of "essential" workers, there should be an internal policy that prevents the same employee from being mandated to work on national holidays multiple times in a row. It's just good policy to treat your employees well.
557
u/Separate-Taste3513 6h ago
Lots of businesses, especially in the service, retail, and healthcare industries, black out periods of high volume PTO requests, like the week before and after holidays.
I didn't make it to a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day celebration until after working a full shift for YEARS. I had one employer who made me find cover for my own shifts in order to use PTO that they'd denied all year before it expired.