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Should working parents automatically get precedence, when allocating holiday, over their childless colleagues? It’s an age-old debate that once again hit headlines this week, after a post from the forum Mumsnet went viral, causing uproar and several controversial counter posts.
In the post, titled ‘Am I being unreasonable?’, the anonymous individual stated that she and her colleague recently requested Christmas day off, yet were told that one of the pair would have to work a morning shift on the 25th.
The poster automatically assumed that, given her colleague did not have children, she should be morally entitled to the time off, and went as far as to note that if her colleague didn’t yield, she’d actually quit the job altogether.
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