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Dear lis-linkers, I would appreciate some information on how libraries, particularly those with small staff, give out annual leave for their part-time evening and Saturday staff. Currently we employ staff two evenings a week, and Saturdays on a rota which entitles them to annual leave pro-rata to full-time staff. They are employed when the students need the library open: that is during term-time, and most of the Christmas and Easter vacations. The summer vacation is more flexible, but the only time I can guarantee that I won't need them is during August. My personnel department insist that we have to allow them to take annual leave during their working time (i.e between September - July and only if the library would normally have bee open in the evenings). This means that with a small staff, it is very difficult to ensure that I have cover if they take time off during this period. I find it hard to believe that it could be against employment conditions that we pay them for leave during August when we don't actually need them, particularly as this is when they wish to take the majority of their leave. I do recognise that to ensure we don't treat them differently to full-time staff we should allow some flexibility to take leave at other times too. Does anybody else pay their staff for leave at times when in fact they wouldn't require them to work anyway? Thanks for any information you can give me. Barbara Barbara Zolynski Head of Library and Information Services Inns of Court School of Law 4 Gray's Inn Place London WC1R 5DX Tel: 020 7400 3643 Fax: 020 7831 3193 email: [log in to unmask]