Just curious because that’s what is happening to me now.
It basically means you can’t take annual leave as you’re already ‘off’ but you then have to work one day. So there’s no way to get the whole period off.
Now I know I am lucky compared to a lot of other jobs to have this time off, but this was something that I considered when deciding whether to work here, considering there wasn’t much of a pay bump. And this job has its own challenges and so far I’ve been very stressed out here. So this seemed like a nice perk.
But yeah, my manager has just informed each of us takes turns, a day each, to check that no urgent requests come through etc from clients.
So it’s not really a day off, as I’ll have to constantly be checking my laptop. What if I had planned to go away somewhere?
Also no other teams have to do this and we don’t get paid for it.
Are they technically allowed to do this as it isn’t annual leave and is simply them being ‘nice’?