Good evening Team. We are receiving a lot of messages in relation to long service leave requests, sick leave, lwop etc etc.

It seems the bosses are making threats and holding teachers to ransom over their leave entitlements if they are not jabbed by a certain date.

We don't know all the legalities around this because everyone's contracts and associations are different as is the approval process. It would be a spiders web for us to try and give a blanket statement.

Our advice is to seriously look at what is being asked of you and see what's the best way you can maybe get some leave approved around that deadline date to buy us more time. This would mean that you could get leave with pay and not worry about being at work on November the 8th.

Each school has set a deadline for when leave must be in for it to be approved. Do what you must to buy yourself time and try to be financial during that leave period.

Everyone's circumstances are different so it's hard for us to tell you exactly what to do. The main thing is we are fighting tooth and nail and some of you may feel more comfortable with putting in for some leave asap.

Feel free to discuss in the comments section. We will discuss more on Sunday nights zoom.

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