I was under the impression that “2 weeks of paid vacation time” a year meant that I’m legally allowed to be able to take the vacation time without having to trade shifts for every single day of the vacation. My current workplace is making it so that basically no one can use their vacation days.
I can only trade days with a very small number other people of my same role (we’re short staffed of course ), so in order to take a week long break for example, I have to convince like 2 or maybe 3 other people to sacrifice their days off to work my five shifts, then when I come back I get to work 6 or 7 day weeks to make up for the days I got my coworkers to cover for me. Nobody’s happy about this, can someone tell me if this is even legal?! I’m in BC, Canada.