Taking time off for holiday during traineeship
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 7:45 pm
Hi, I'm about two months into my traineeship currently, and despite my difficult director I've been enjoying it a lot. The only issue I have is I have a family holiday booked for October/November in America for about three weeks.
I'm nervous about telling my director as I'm still new and on probation. Since I've been at the centre, two other girls have gone on holidays for over three weeks, but they're qualified employees and not trainees. We are very short on staff, and when these girls were away we had to combine our 2-3 and baby rooms, which I know was difficult and annoyed the rest of us. My director is quite harsh and rude, and I fear that if I ask for that time off she will take it out on me for months, making me feel guilty and upset as she does for the other employees whenever they do something she doesn't like.
I have anxiety, and I know that if she starts making my time at work hard for me, that I will begin to dread going. I can't change this holiday but I'm worried about it affecting my job.
Can you legally take holidays on a traineeship? Is it irresponsible? What should I do? The whole ordeal is making me nervous.
I'm nervous about telling my director as I'm still new and on probation. Since I've been at the centre, two other girls have gone on holidays for over three weeks, but they're qualified employees and not trainees. We are very short on staff, and when these girls were away we had to combine our 2-3 and baby rooms, which I know was difficult and annoyed the rest of us. My director is quite harsh and rude, and I fear that if I ask for that time off she will take it out on me for months, making me feel guilty and upset as she does for the other employees whenever they do something she doesn't like.
I have anxiety, and I know that if she starts making my time at work hard for me, that I will begin to dread going. I can't change this holiday but I'm worried about it affecting my job.
Can you legally take holidays on a traineeship? Is it irresponsible? What should I do? The whole ordeal is making me nervous.
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