Vacation Appeal Letter

To whom this may concern:

I received an appeal that was filed by the Odyssey Learning Center by their director of compliance, Gayon Mills-Austin, stating that I had been discharged for reasons other than willful misconduct in the course of my employment. I was hired to the learning center on January 25th, 2017. I informed Mills-Austin that before I had been offered the position as an assistant teacher, that I had a vacation that was already booked between March 9th thru March 20th, 2017. This was at the time not an issue because not only Gayon, but my boss at the time, Monisha Gibson, also informed me that this trip would not be a problem because it was booked before I had gotten hired. On June 2nd, 2017 I filled a vacation leave request stating that I needed the 24th-28th of July off to attend a family wedding

Mills-Austin denied my request stating that I had used all of my vacation days. Because of the conversation I had with Gayon and Monisha in March, I didn't think those days I had taken would then be used against me, especially unfairly. I spoke with serval of my colleagues and also members of the senior management team to get a better understanding as to why I was denied when I had witnessed serval of my colleagues leave without permission or call out repeatedly with no consequences. One of my colleagues, Emma Butler, expressed to me that she had a similar situation with Mills-Austin. When Butler's days were denied, she still processed to go on her trip and only came back to the consequence of a write up. A member of the senior management staff, Emily, specifically told me that she was "curious to see what my consequence would be because so many people had left regardless of denied leave-of-absences and came back to no consequences". I furthered my search when I referred back to the employee