Met with my boss a few days ago and mentioned I wanted to take a month off starting around the middle of march. I put in a lot of hours over the last few months and I'm burnt out at work and at home. And rather then do something drastic I think its best i just take some time and reset. Im not worried about taking the month off financially that won't be a problem, so I told my boss Whatever is easier for him I can take a LOA without pay or I can go on holidays (but I don't have enough holidays) or I can just take my paternity leave.
He immediately interrupted me and said "why would you take paternity leave" "you don't need to take paternity leave" just take your holidays. I explained to him that If I take my holidays I don't have enough time off to cover so some of it would be a LOA, also in the summer I am still going to want to take holidays... So I don't want to use them all up in march then be told to bad so sad come summer.
I am confused why he was SO against Paternity leave... Either way I'm leaving the country so LOA or Holidays or Paternity Leave there is no way I can cover for a day or two here and there if that is what he is thinking? I'm hopping on a plane and going somewhere hot for the month...
If I take paternity the company HAS to reward me a similar job with atleast the same pay or greater, so maybe there are other benefits of taking Paternity leave? Would I be smart to take paternity leave regardless of his opinion? I can just tell him I need paternity leave for the money and tell him I'm broke...
FYI - Off topic but my wife is also on paternity leave so between the two of us we get so much money annually, so If take some of that money now, she will end up with no pay for the last month of paternity leave... So I don't really care if i get that money now or at the end... and I don't need the money.