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[blamebrampton]

The following poll will be very helpful in sorting some ideas. If you are in paid work and have a minute or two spare, it would be lovely to hear from you![Poll #1401151][Poll #1401151]

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[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

Other useful info about my workplace:
- I get 20 days of annual leave per year, I'm meant to use at least 15 days per year, but in reality, I'm lucky if I use 10 as it has been tricky to find a "good time" to take leave.
- Other leave includes Carer's Leave, Bereavement, "other contingency" leave (e.g. natural disasters, home burglary etc..), leave for Defence Forces Reserves training.
- We have concessional leave that covers the period between Christmas and New Year.
- Long Service Leave after 10 years service.
- We get flexi leave (i.e. if you work more hours than are required, you can take these as flex leave).
- Sick leave is 15 days per year, but unused leave can accumulate.
- Paid Maternity leave is 14 full-time weeks which may be taken at 28 weeks half pay. There is the option to return to work on a part-time basis using leave without pay. You have to be back at your original capacity within 104 weeks of the birth of the child. We also have a return to work grant equivalent to 12 weeks of annual salary providing you return to at least 40% load. You can use that to either supplement going part-time, career development to update skills, or subsidise child care.
- We also have leave arrangements for adoption and foster parents.
- There are "Leave without Pay" options as well.

On the whole, our Enterprise Bargaining Agreement is pretty good. However, we also have a stack of people in our unit who are massively overloaded with no support so they're just accumulating leave that they don't have time to take because no-one will do their job while they're away.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

yes, that's the downside of a lot of sort of public sector jobs; the conditions on paper are great but the actual work can be insane. Not long until you are free as a bird again! Well, free-ish ...

Thanks, luv, good detail!