Annieindublin
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This came up recently where I work.
A long serving member of staff (30+ years) lost a parent. A few people went to the funeral which was a fair distance from the office so most of a day off. We mainly work from home so most would have been able to check emails etc by late afternoon. I’m sure some did and some didn’t.
Anyway it was always a given that time off for something like this was not annual leave. This time a request to log it as AL was circulated. I was shocked. It didn’t impact me as I was actually already off that week and didn’t attend the funeral but I’ve done it in the past. Sometimes it’s local and it’s an hour or so off. Others are of course further away.
people generally go if they were reasonably close to the person concerned. And of course if they don’t have commitments that can’t be moved. The benefits of the traditional funerals here is that there is a removal the night before where people can pay respects.
Just wondering if time off for such matters is commonplace or is annual leave the norm? Surely if it’s a couple of hours you make up the time easily and no one bats an eyelid.
In the case of the recent one few attending would be getting paid overtime for instance so a bit of give and take would be expected. We record hours for H&S or whatever reasons but that’s not linked to salary.
I’m not aware of anyone taking advantage and new joiners to the office etc going. Although most of the office did go when a colleague died about a year ago, but we got no memos about that one.
A long serving member of staff (30+ years) lost a parent. A few people went to the funeral which was a fair distance from the office so most of a day off. We mainly work from home so most would have been able to check emails etc by late afternoon. I’m sure some did and some didn’t.
Anyway it was always a given that time off for something like this was not annual leave. This time a request to log it as AL was circulated. I was shocked. It didn’t impact me as I was actually already off that week and didn’t attend the funeral but I’ve done it in the past. Sometimes it’s local and it’s an hour or so off. Others are of course further away.
people generally go if they were reasonably close to the person concerned. And of course if they don’t have commitments that can’t be moved. The benefits of the traditional funerals here is that there is a removal the night before where people can pay respects.
Just wondering if time off for such matters is commonplace or is annual leave the norm? Surely if it’s a couple of hours you make up the time easily and no one bats an eyelid.
In the case of the recent one few attending would be getting paid overtime for instance so a bit of give and take would be expected. We record hours for H&S or whatever reasons but that’s not linked to salary.
I’m not aware of anyone taking advantage and new joiners to the office etc going. Although most of the office did go when a colleague died about a year ago, but we got no memos about that one.