Originally Posted by griff312

Training does not like to interrupt your / their schedule. But if you absolutely HAVE to have time off for something extremely urgent (you're deathly ill, or a family emergency), then they will gladly work with you to get you the time you need, and get you back into the training pipeline. However, if it was a pre-planned event ie vacation, wedding, ect. then they'll be probably be less likely to work with you on that. "You knew you had an event but elected to start training anyway". They'll say, "That's not their problem, you should have planned better". As far as maternity leave, you'll have to talk to the training scheduler. She will be able to steer you straight, better than recruiting can.

If you do get unscheduled time off during training, BE VERY CAREFUL! You're still on company time, getting company benefits, and restricted to company policies. What that means is, you get 24/7 per-diem while in training. If you take unscheduled time off, that per-diem is supposed to stop. But pay-comp doesn't always know the situation, and will continue to pay it. Also, if your benefits have kicked in, and you're not in training for a specific amount of time, instead of getting a paycheck, you may very well end up owing the company money back. If you use company passes to travel while taking unscheduled time off, you'll have to have permission to make the company travel.